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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... Brown A Little Yellow Dog Black Betty Gone Fishin' White Butterfly A Red Death Devil in a Blue Dress OTHER FICTION The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey The Tempest Tales Diablerie Killing Johnny Fry The Man in My Basement Fear of the Dark ...
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... brown like a shiny pecan and curvy, not to say voluptuous. Her hair was set in gaudy ringlets and the cheap silk of her dress was a carnival of blues and reds sprinkled over with flecks of confetti yellow. Her makeup was heavy but ...
... brown like a shiny pecan and curvy, not to say voluptuous. Her hair was set in gaudy ringlets and the cheap silk of her dress was a carnival of blues and reds sprinkled over with flecks of confetti yellow. Her makeup was heavy but ...
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... brown in there, maybe some Asian and black. Pinky Todd, a white woman, was killed by a berserker homeless man who all of a sudden went crazy on Fifth Avenue and hit her in the head with a chunk of concrete. The bearded homeless man fled ...
... brown in there, maybe some Asian and black. Pinky Todd, a white woman, was killed by a berserker homeless man who all of a sudden went crazy on Fifth Avenue and hit her in the head with a chunk of concrete. The bearded homeless man fled ...
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... brown streetwise nudes made from what only seemed like rot and decay. I found myself wondering at the woman I had not met. Was she in as much trouble as her imposter claimed? And why would anyone come to me pretending to be another in ...
... brown streetwise nudes made from what only seemed like rot and decay. I found myself wondering at the woman I had not met. Was she in as much trouble as her imposter claimed? And why would anyone come to me pretending to be another in ...
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... brown. His features marked him as one of my people: broad nose and generous lips. His expression told me, however, that we had nothing in common. “My name is Phil,” he said, somehow making even this bland statement condescending. “You ...
... brown. His features marked him as one of my people: broad nose and generous lips. His expression told me, however, that we had nothing in common. “My name is Phil,” he said, somehow making even this bland statement condescending. “You ...
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