Walter Mosley

As a New York Times bestselling author, Walter Mosley’s work has been translated into more than 21 languages. Mr. Mosley, the winner of an O. Henry Award, a Grammy, and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award, lives in New York City.

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“Farewell, Amethystine is a pleasure to sink into, a well-written traditional PI novel scented with the music of the time and the hope that things will continue to

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“What’s perhaps most remarkable about Blood Grove—as with all Easy Rawlins novels—is Mosley’s undiminished gift for embedding the poignant messaging of the protest novel in hard-bo

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“Beyond the usual detective/PI action, Mosley creates a model for writing that moves off the ‘race card’ and back to true descriptions.”

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“The challenge of making something from almost nothing is met by using the right words ‘frugally, parsimoniously.’ With the right words we can make the reader go places he could never imagi

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“Mosley’s new book, John Woman, though it only intermittently delivers the tautly rendered violence and suspense of his detective fiction, is as provocative and morally instructive

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“We all in different dreams, everybody in the whole world.

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"... a titillating story about porn and gangsters."

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“There’s no need to tell an abbreviation of Walter Mosley’s story here. If the reader wants a complicated and well-told mystery, it’s here.

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With Known to Evil, Walter Mosley offers the second Leonid McGill mystery.