When the Thrill Is Gone - Softcover

Walter Mosley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0297865498 ISBN 13: 9780297865490

Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2011

Synopsis

The economy has hit the PI business hard, and Leonid McGill is getting job offers only from the criminals he's worked so hard to leave behind. 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, she tells him, who's escaped poverty via marriage to a rich collector. A rich collector with two ex-wives whose deaths are shrouded in mystery. 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.Meanwhile, Leonid's personal life grows ever more chequered: his favourite stepson, Twill, drops out of school for mysteriously lucrative pursuits; his wife takes a new lover, infuriating the old one and endangering the whole family; and Leonid's girlfriend, Aura, is back but intent on some serious conversations ... Is the client at his door who she seems and - if his family's misadventures don't kill him first - will sorting out the woman's crooked tale bring Leonid straight to death's door?

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About the Author

Walter Mosley is the author of more than thirty-four critically acclaimed books, including the now classic Easy Rawlins mystery series. Mosley's work has been translated into more than twenty-one languages. The winner of an O. Henry Award, a Grammy, and PEN America's Lifetime Achievement Award, he lives in New York City.

From Booklist

In the third Leonid McGill mystery, following Known to Evil (2010),the African American private eye (he owes his unusual first name to his “crackpot Communist father”), returns for another adventure. Unlike Mosley’s celebrated Easy Rawlins novels, set in L.A. from the 1940s through the 1960s, this series is set in contemporary New York and features McGill employing all variety of high-tech gadgetry. And, yet, despite the trimmings, this one begins in classic hard-boiled Chandlerian fashion: a beautiful woman, Chrystal Tyler, arrives in McGill’s office claiming her billionaire husband may be planning to kill her. The claim might be unbelievable, but her cash is real enough, prompting McGill to take the case. Inevitably, he finds himself stuck in the middle of a plot that’s several levels more complicated than he had anticipated. Through three novels, McGill has become a likable enough series hero in the old-school mold. Mosley’s many fans will find plenty to keep them engaged here, though they may still find themselves wondering if Rawlins really did die at the end of Blonde Faith (2007). HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Mosley’s past successes have built a committed readership, especially for his crime fiction, and his publisher will make every effort to hook Easy Rawlins fans on this new series. --David Pitt

About this edition

• Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0297865498
• ISBN 13: 9780297865490
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368