Known to Evil (A Leonid McGill Mystery)

Synopsis

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 Skyscraper Office Space. Meanwhile, One Of His Sons Seems To Have Found True Love-but The Girl Has A Shady Past That's All Of Sudden Threatening The Whole Mcgill Family-and His Other Son, The Charming Rogue Twilliam, Is Doing Nothing But Enabling The Crisis.

most Ominously Of All, Alfonse Rinaldo, The Mysterious Power-behind- The-throne At City Hall, The Fixer Who Seems To Control...

the New York Times - Marilyn Stasio

the Voice Of The Narrator—low, Intense And Soaked In Melancholy—is What Hooks Us In known To Evil…[mosley's] Characters…live And Breathe Genre Lingo, Even When They're Just Talking With Their Fists.