Walter Mosley

Detective Easy Rawlins has settled into the happy rhythm of his new life when a dark siren from his past returns and threatens to destroy the peace he's fought for, in the latest installment from "master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley in a legendary series (National Book Foundation).

A family member’s terminal illness leads P.I. Joe King Oliver to the investigation of his life: tracking down his long-lost father, and meanwhile, a new case pits King’s professional responsibility against his own moral code.

After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself as Professor John Woman and spreading his father's teachings into the classrooms of his unorthodox Southwestern university. But some are attempting to influence the narrative of John Woman....

Paris Minton is a man who would just as soon walk away from trouble as stand up to it. But in 1950s Los Angeles...

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, and, on the whole, odd....

In Inside a Silver Box, two people brought together by a horrific act are united in a common cause by the powers of the Silver Box....

i>The Tempest Tales, an Essence Book Club Recommended Read, features Tempest Landry, a black man shot down by an over-eager cop. But that's not the end of the line....

As punishment, Prometheus was bound to a rock. But in The Gift of Fire, those chains cease to be, and the champion of man walks from that immortal prison into present-day South Central Los Angeles....

In a powerful story of modern-day resilience and redemption, Tommy and Eric forge their separate ways in the world, each confronting the challenges of his sphere....

Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins finds his life in transition. He's ready to - finally - propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, and start a life together....

When Cordell Carmel catches his longtime girlfriend with another man, the act he witnesses seems to dissolve all the boundaries he knows....

In the fifth Leonid McGill novel, Leonid finds himself in an unusual pickle of trying to balance his cases with his chaotic personal life....

Raleigh Redman loved Nicci Charbon until she left him heartbroken. Then he hit the lotto for 24 million dollars, quit his minimum-wage job, and set his sights on one goal....

The Walter Mosley and his new hero, Leonid McGill, are back in the new New York Times best-selling mystery series that's already being hailed as a classic of contemporary noir.....

Paris Minton is minding his own business when a beautiful woman named Elana Love walks into his bookstore...

Morally ambiguous P.I. Leonid McGill is back - and investigating crimes against society's most downtrodden - in this installment of the beloved detective series from an Edgar Award-winning and best-selling crime novelist....

Walter Mosley's infamous Detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new mystery to solve on the sun-soaked streets of Southern California....

In his first book for young adults, best-selling author Walter Mosley deftly weaves historical and speculative fiction into a powerful narrative about the nature of freedom....

Organizing other troubled individuals, Socrates starts the Thursday Night Thinkers' Meeting, in which members discuss "the world and what would be the right thing to do"....

New York Times best seller Walter Mosley's sizzling new novel pits Easy Rawlins against his greatest challenge ever, a terrifying murder during the Summer of Love....