January 1970 finds Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, LA’s premier Black detective, at fifty years of age despite all expectations. He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency. All is right with the world... and then...
The economy has hit the private investigator business hard, even for Leonid McGill. Lately, he is getting job offers only from the criminals he’s worked so hard to leave behind. Meanwhile, his personal life grows ever more complicated: his...
Ptolemy Bent — “Popo” — is different. At an age when most babies are cooing “Mama”, Popo was speaking in complete sentences. He was reading college textbooks when he was still too young for nursery school. Popo may just be the smartest...
Bestselling author Walter Mosley blends philosophy and humor in this thought-provoking exploration of race, sin, and salvation. It is the story of two men — one human and one angel — who have the power to topple heaven.
When Tempest Landry...
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...
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...
In a Las Vegas hotel room, a man awakes to confront his destiny
Dreaming, Jack hears voices: a frightened child in a hospital, a woman cheating on her husband, a death-row inmate. When he wakes, the voices recede, but they do not vanish. He is...
Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley’s most accomplished short stories to...
Walter Mosley’s acclaimed Easy Rawlins mysteries are not only best-selling crime thrillers; they are also serious novels of depth and complexity that open up the physical, social, and moral landscape of postwar Los Angeles to probing examination....