When the Thrill Is Gone: A Leonid McGill MysteryAfrican-American noir is at its finest in this gripping crime novel from Walter Mosley’s New York Times bestselling series, in which a strange young woman hires Detective Leonid McGill to protect her from her allegedly murderous husband. The economy has hit the private investigator business hard, even for the detective designated as “a more than worthy successor to Philip Marlowe” (The Boston Globe). Lately, Leonid McGill is getting job offers only from the criminals he’s worked so hard to leave behind. Meanwhile, his personal life is growing more complicated, with his stepson mysteriously dropping out of school, a friend getting diagnosed with cancer, and his unfaithful wife taking another new lover. So how can he say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash? She’s an artist who has escaped from poverty via marriage to a rich collector who keeps her on a stipend. But she says she fears for her life and needs Leonid’s help. Though Leonid knows better than to believe every word, this isn’t a job he can afford to turn away, even as he senses that sorting out the woman’s crooked tale might bring him straight to death’s door. |
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... front of his favorite bar. Above him stood a well-built copper-skinned young man with a shaved head and a perpetual grin on his lips. His mirth seemed more predatory than happy, but Iran was really trying to help Tiny out. “Three more ...
... front of his favorite bar. Above him stood a well-built copper-skinned young man with a shaved head and a perpetual grin on his lips. His mirth seemed more predatory than happy, but Iran was really trying to help Tiny out. “Three more ...
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... front of me was lying. Maybe everything about her was a falsehood, but under that subterfuge there was something true. The fact that I wondered about this underlying reality is what makes me a good detective. The intercom buzzer sounded ...
... front of me was lying. Maybe everything about her was a falsehood, but under that subterfuge there was something true. The fact that I wondered about this underlying reality is what makes me a good detective. The intercom buzzer sounded ...
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... front door, I filled in the names and relationships of the people I was looking for and the system did an in-depth search using logic that Bug had culled and stolen from a thousand different systems. I set up queries for Cyril Tyler ...
... front door, I filled in the names and relationships of the people I was looking for and the system did an in-depth search using logic that Bug had culled and stolen from a thousand different systems. I set up queries for Cyril Tyler ...
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... front door of the reception area. For a period of eight seconds three cameras took a dozen photos each of the new guest. The images of the Chrystal Chambers who had come to my office were very close to that of the woman Bug's program ...
... front door of the reception area. For a period of eight seconds three cameras took a dozen photos each of the new guest. The images of the Chrystal Chambers who had come to my office were very close to that of the woman Bug's program ...
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