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A new mystery series from the author of the classic work "Devil in a Blue Dress" offers a new character, a new city, and a new era.

Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a war veteran just fired from his job. Drinking in a friend's bar, he wonders how to meet his mortgage when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will locate Miss Daphne Monet, a blonde beauty with a reputation. This is an award winning first novel that immediately established Mosley as a great American writer. Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a war veteran just fired from his job. Drinking in a friend's bar, he wonders how to meet his mortgage when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will locate Miss Daphne Monet, a blonde beauty with a reputation. In the sleazy, fearful city, Easy must rely on his instincts, not just to solve the case, but to save his life.

We follow former rule-breaker Leonid McGill as he's buffeted between the overlords of New York's underbelly, desperate to turn straight, but unable to say no to a nicely paid job. When we're introduced, he's calling in old favours and greasing NYPD palms to uncover seemingly harmless information for a high-paying client. But when the former schoolmates on his list are bludgeoned to death one by one, McGill realises that a friendly reunion wasn't quite what his taskmaster had in mind. And the awkward questions that follow seem almost welcome in comparison to a visit from Willie Sanderson, a trained killer and 'modern-day Frankenstein', now primed to ensure that McGill breathes his last. THE LONG FALL shows Walter Mosley at the height of his powers, breathing new life into American crime writing with sassy dialogue and unflinching social truths. Vividly capturing a city not nearly as cleaned up as its politicians would have us believe, this is new Mosley - and it's just as good as the vintage kind.

The time is 1948. The town is Los Angeles. The hero is Easy Rawlins, an out of work black war veteran. The mortgage payment's coming due, so Easy accepts the assignment of finding Daphne Monet, a blonde torch singer with a penchant for jazz and criminal black consorts. In his search through a sleazy, fearful city, he is lucky to be under the protection of the murderous Mouse who wants a piece of the action. Easy Rawlins is a fascinating creation driving a plot that carries a fine and bitter sting. With this first novel, Walter Mosley made a distinctly confident start to his career as a great and inspirational writer.

El joven Easy Rawlins, un veterano de guerra negro, se encuen­tra en un bar de Los Ángeles con un individuo inquietante que quiere proponerle un encargo envenenado: localizar a una mu­jer blanca que

Joe King Oliver era un honesto agente de policía de Nueva York hasta que alguien le tendió una trampa que arruinó su carrera y, durante unos meses, le llevó a la cárcel. Una década más tarde, Oliver se gana la vida como investigador privado. La llegada inesperada de una carta le va a dar la oportunidad de averiguar quien le traiciono y de hacer las paces con su pasado. Paralelamente, se le presenta otro caso conflictivo: la defensa de un activista negro acusado de haber matado a dos policias.

In this tenth supercharged novel in Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series, L.A.'s most reluctant detective finds himself immersed in a sea of problems--and in a world of danger.

The Walter Mosley and his new hero, Leonid McGill, are back in the new New York Times-bestselling mystery series that's already being hailed as a classic of contemporary noir. Leonid McGill-the protagonist introduced in The Long Fall, the book that returned Walter Mosley to bestseller lists nationwide -is still fighting to stick to his reformed ways while the world around him pulls him in every other direction. He has split up with his girlfriend, Aura, because his new self won't let him leave his wife-but then Aura's new boyfriend starts angling to get Leonid kicked out of his prime, top-of-the

A brand- new mystery series from one of the country's best-known, best-loved writers: a new character, a new city, a new era. A new Walter Mosley.

Winner of the RBA Prize for Crime Writing 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, a charge that lands him in the notorious Rikers Island prison. 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 by someone in the NYPD to frame him all those years ago, King realises that he has no choice but to take his own case: figuring out who on the force wanted him disposed of - and why. At the same time, King must investigate the case of black radical journalist Leonard Compton, aka A Free Man, accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges to traffic drugs and women into the city's poorest neighbourhoods. In pursuit of justice, our hero must beat dirty cops and even dirtier bankers. All the while, two lives hang in the balance: Compton's, and King's own.

Easy Rawlins no se acostumbra a llevar una vida tranquila. A pesar de tener una mujer que le quiere, unos hijos que le adoran, una casa con jardín trasero y un trabajo en un instituto donde todos le respetan, Easy necesita algo que pensaba que habia dejado atras. Añora a su explosivo amigo Mouse, al que cree muerto, y aquella sensacion de constante peligro que siempre le rodeaba. Por eso, casi sin pretenderlo, vuelve a la calle a hacer lo que mejor sabe: resolver problemas de amigos y conocidos, y meterse en lios que le podrian llevar a la carcel o algo peor. Mientras tanto, no pierde la ocasion de buscar pistas para averiguar si su antiguo compañero de correrias ha desaparecido para siempre.

Aunque Leonid McGill trabaja como detective privado en Nueva York, buena parte de su mundo gira en torno a los favores que debe y que le deben. Una de sus deudas pendientes es con un asesino a sueldo de Mississippi que una vez le perdono la vida. Ahora se la quiere cobrar pidiendole que ayude a un viejo cantante de blues, que tiene mas de noventa años y antes de morir quiere hacer llegar una carta a una joven heredera. La misiva revela que corre sangre negra por las venas de la chica, cuya rica familia representa los valores mas selectos de la America Blanca tradicional. Hay mucha gente dispuesta a lo que sea para que una noticia asi no se haga publica, pero a Leonild le encanta enfrentarse a estos problemas.Algunas vidas son una cancion de blues.

Los Ángeles, 1969. Al despacho de Easy Rawlins llega un joven exsoldado que no hace mucho estaba luchando en la selva de Vietnam. Necesita ayuda porque ha apuñalado a un hombre negro que estaba atacando a una chica y cree haberlo matado. No lo sabe con seguridad, ya que en la refriega alguien lo golpeo y lo dejo inconsciente. Normalmente, Easy nunca aceptaria un caso asi, con poco que ganar y mucho que perder, pero siente una extraña afinidad con su potencial cliente. Aunque sabe que es un grave error, no puede evitar cometerlo. SI QUIERES SOBREVIVIR, TEN AMIGOS AUN MAS PELIGROSOS QUE TUS ENEMIGOS