Mosley, Walter

Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: 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. Broken by the brutality he suffered and committed in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mullholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2018

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2023

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2018

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: At twelve years old, Cornelius secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself--as Professor John Woman, a man who will spread his father's teachings into the classrooms of his unorthodox southwestern university and beyond. But there are other individuals who are...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building his reputation as a private investigator in New York. His seemingly infallible instincts and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip "Catfish" Worry comes knocking. Catfish is a ninety-four-year-old Mississippi blues-man who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2020

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: "A convention-defying novel by bestselling writer Walter Mosley, John Woman recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones , the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi, into John Woman, an unconventional history professor while the legacy of a hideous crime lurks in the shadows"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: Ezekiel 'Easy' Porterhouse Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator turned hard-boiled detective always willing to do what it takes to get things done in the racially charged, dark underbelly of Los Angeles. But when Easy is approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran, a young white man who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, he knows he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: Ten years after serving time at Rikers Island for assault, Joe King Oliver, 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 find out who on the police force wanted him out. He also agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2018

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: "In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools and practical advice needed to write a novel in a single year. In this complementary follow up, Mosley guides the reader throughthe fundamental building blocks of fiction to deliver a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of conversational and instructive...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: "New York City-based private eye Leonid McGill finds himself in the unusual pickle of trying to balance his cases with his chaotic personal life"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: "Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve. Charcoal Joe has asked Easy to help clear Joe's son, who was found standing over a white man's dead body in his cabin home"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: Martin, his wife, and his two children are the only Black family on their neighborhood block in the Hollywood hills of Los Angeles. Suddenly, Martin is both father and Antibody, husband and Cure, occasionally slipping into an alternate consciousness – equipped with unprecedented physical strength – to violently defend them. The family is stalked by Tor Waxman – the pale, white-haired embodiment...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023

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