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Author
Series
King Oliver novels volume 1
Publisher
Mullholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to investigate.
Author
Series
King Oliver novels volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being asked to investigate the charges against a white nationalist accused of treason and murder, Joe King Oliver, with help from bodyguard and mercenary Oliya Ruez, embarks on a winding quest to expose the truth.
3) John Woman
Author
Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition, first Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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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 sets...
4) Blood grove
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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."--Publisher description.
1969. Easy Rawlins, the Black private...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
249 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling. He's fallen behind on the mortgage payments for the beautiful home that's belonged to his family for generations. Then a stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to rent out his basement for the summer. The stranger has a very particular, and bizarre set of requirements, and Charles tries to satisfy him. He sees an opportunity to understand secrets of the white world, and his summer with...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In spite of their differences, Eric and Tommy are as close as brothers. Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seemingly endless supply of good fortune. Tommy, a black boy, is cursed with health problems, yet remains optimistic and strong. After tragedy rips them apart, their lives astonishingly diverge. In a story of resilience and redemption, the two confront separate challenges, and when circumstances reunite them years later, they draw on their...
Author
Series
Fearless Jones novels volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bookseller Paris Minton and his friend Fearless Jones search for Ulysses S. Grant, Minton's missing cousin who became involved in a blackmail scheme.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories - heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved,...
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
166 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this scorching, mournful, often explicit, and never-less-than-moving literary novel from Walter Mosley, acclaimed creator of the Easy Rawlins series, Debbie Dare has to come to terms with her sordid life in the adult-entertainment industry. Millions of men (and, no doubt, many women) have watched the famed black porn queen-she of the blond wig and blue contact lenses-'do it' on television and computer screens every which way and with every combination...
12) The long fall
Author
Series
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leonid McGill, a New York City private detective, tries to put his past behind him. But it's not that easy when someone like Tony "The Suit" Towers expects you to do a job; when an Albany PI hires you to track down four men known only by their youthful street names; and when your 16-year-old son, Twill, is getting in over his head with a suicidal girl.
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
381 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
""In the fifth Leonid McGill novel, Leonid finds himself in an unusual pickle of trying to balance his cases with his chaotic personal life. Leonid's father is still out there somewhere, and his wife is in an uptown sanitarium trying to recover from the deep depression that led to her attempted suicide in the previous novel. His wife's condition has put a damper on his affair with Aura Ullman, his girlfriend. And his son, Twill, has been spending...
Author
Series
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
We last saw Easy Rawlins in Blonde Faith, fighting for his life after his car plunges over a cliff. True to form, the tough WWII veteran survives. Soon, he and his murderous sidekick, Mouse, are cruising the mean streets of L.A. in all their psychedelic 1967 glory to look for a young black man who disappeared during an acid trip. Fueled by an elixir called Gator's Blood, brewed by the conjure woman Mama Jo, Easy experiences a physical, spiritual,...
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2012], ♭2011
Physical Desc
370 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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?
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