Walter Mosley
Author
Series
King Oliver novels volume 2
Description
When friend of the family and multi-billionaire Roger Ferris comes to Joe with an assignment, he’s got no choice but to accept, even if the case is a tough one to stomach. White nationalist Alfred Xavier Quiller has been accused of murder and the sale of sensitive information to the Russians. Ferris has reason to believe Quiller’s been set up and he needs King to see if the charges hold. This linear assignment becomes a winding quest to uncover...
Author
Series
King Oliver novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault by his enemies within the NYPD, a charge which lands him in solitary at Rikers Island.A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. When he receives a card in the mail from the woman who admits she was paid to frame him those years ago, King realizes...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Life for Easy Rawlins is surprisingly... easy. He's living off the proceeds of his last case, trying to keep out of trouble. Of course it's not going to last. Because Easy's old friend Mouse knocks on his door. Mouse is one of the deadliest men in America. And Mouse wants a small favour. He wants Easy to help a man he says is wrongly imprisoned, a friend of Charcoal Joe. Charcoal Joe is a mythical figure in the LA underworld -- he pulls all the strings...
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building up his reputation in the New York investigative scene. His seemingly infallible instinct and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip Worry comes knocking. Phillip 'Catfish' Worry is a 92-year-old Mississippi bluesman who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father. Unsurprisingly, the...
5) Blood grove
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and into sex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Formats
Description
Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. Then Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that restores his mind, and he uses his last days--shortened now by the medical experiment--to delve into the mystery of the recent drive-by shooting...
Author
Series
Formats
Description
On the road in a "borrowed" '36 Ford, nineteen-year-old Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and his companion, Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, are on a perilous odyssey that takes them from Houston to a mysterious bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death. Their destination is desolate Pariah, Texas - Mouse's home once, and still home to his hated stepfather. Encountering violent and unexpected threats, Easy and Mouse forge bonds that will link them in the decades...
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
A beautiful young woman walks into PI Leonid McGill's office with a stack of cash. She's an artist, she tells Leonid, who's escaped poverty via marriage to a rich collector. A rich collector with two ex-wives whose deaths are shrouded in mystery. She says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid's help. Will sorting out the woman's crooked tale bring Leonid straight to death's door?
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
180 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday life, however, inside he feels nothing. The explanation for this emotional void lies in the years he spent as a blacked-out drunk before pulling his life together--years in which he knows he committed acts he doesn't remember. Then a woman from his past turns up at a gala for his wife's new...
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Riverhead Books/Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When Zella Grisham is accused of both shooting her boyfriend and stealing more than six million dollars from the Rutgers Assurance Corp., Leonid McGill investigates while his own family life begins to unravel around him.
14) Little Scarlet
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 25 cm.
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
Investigating the murder of a client he initially refused to help, Leonid navigates difficult personal elements in his own life while uncovering dark secrets about the victim's old-money family and its missing heiress.
Author
Series
Fearless Jones novels volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
The arrival of his lowlife cousin, Ulysses S. "Useless" Grant, spells trouble for Paris Minton and his friend, Fearless Jones, as they become embroiled in a bizarre case involving mysterious women, desperate blackmail victims, cheating business partners, and murder.
17) John Woman
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his father?s job at a silent film theater in New York?s East Village. Five years later, as Herman lives out his last days, he shares his wisdom with his son, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius...
18) Fearless Jones
Author
Series
Fearless Jones novels volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
322 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
19) Walkin' the dog
Author
Series
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
301 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
20) Blonde faith
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Fearing his friend, Christmas Black, has met his demise when the ex-Marine's daughter is left on his doorstep, reluctant L.A. detective Easy Rawlins finds the challenges of caring for a child further complicated by another friend's murder accusation.