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Tripping the Light Fantastique

The Long Fall by Walter Mosley

November 3, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

I’ve been going through Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins series the last few years and mostly enjoying it. He’s a good writer with a solid sense of time (post-WWII Los Angeles), a compelling character, and a point-of-view that many readers don’t get from “mainstream” (re: dominantly white) mystery writers. I hadn’t thought much of reading his Leonid McGill series, which is basically Easy Rawlins set in New York in contemporary times. But as I’ve been on a big New York City reading kick lately, I figured […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Leonid McGill, mystery, New York City, The Long Fall, walter mosley

Jake's CBR11 Review No:116 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Leonid McGill, mystery, New York City, The Long Fall, walter mosley ·
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