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| Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Novel by Walter Mosley Devil in a Blue Dress, a defining novel in Walter Mosley’s bestselling Easy Rawlins mystery series, was adapted into a TriStar Pictures film starring Denzel Washington as Easy Rawlins and Don Cheadle as Mouse.Set in the late 1940s, in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles, Devil in a Blue Dress follows Easy Rawlins, a... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| Rose Gold: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley Rose Gold is two colors, one woman, and a big headache. In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth, has kidnapped Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers; Bestsellers | | |
| Down the River unto the Sea by Walter Mosley "Mosley writes with great power here about themes that have permeated his work: institutional racism, political corruption, and the ways that both of these issues affect not only society at large but also the inner lives of individual men and women." --Booklist (starred review)NATIONAL BESTSELLERJoe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| R L'S Dream by Walter Mosley Soupspoon Wise is dying on the unforgiving streets of New York City, years and worlds away from the Mississippi delta, where he once jammed with blues legend Robert "RL" Johnson. It was an experience that burned indelibly into Soupspoon's soul -- never mind that they said RL's gift came from the Devil himself. Now it's Soupspoon's turn... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore: A Novel by Walter Mosley In this scorching, mournful, often explicit, and never less than moving literary novel by the famed creator of the Easy Rawlins series, Debbie Dare, a black porn queen, has to come to terms with her sordid life in the adult entertainment industry after her tomcatting husband dies in a hot tub. Electrocuted. With another woman in... Today's Bargain Price: $14.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Women's Fiction | | |
| Stepping Stone: A Novel from Crosstown to Oblivion by Walter Mosley Walter Mosley's talent knows no bounds. Stepping Stone is one of six fragments in the Crosstown to Oblivion short novels in which Mosley entertainingly explores life's cosmic questions. From life's meaning to the nature of good and evil, these tales take us on speculative journeys beyond the reality we have come to know. In each tale... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Categories: All Science Fiction | | |
| A Little Yellow Dog: An Easy Rawlins Novel by Walter Mosley November 1963: Easy's settled into a steady gig as a school custodian. It's a quiet, simple existence -- but a few moments of ecstasy with a sexy teacher will change all that. When the lady vanishes, Easy's stuck with a couple of corpses, the cops on his back, and a little yellow dog who's nobody's best friend. With his not-so-simple... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| Black Betty: An Easy Rawlins Novel by Walter Mosley 1961: For most black Americans, these were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never meaner...or more deadly. Ordinarily, Easy would have thrown the two bills in the sleazy shamus' face -- the white man who wanted him to find the notorious Black Betty, an ebony siren whose talent for all things... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers; All Sex & Erotica | | |
| When the Thrill Is Gone: A Leonid McGill Mystery (Leonid McGill series Book 3) by Walter Mosley Leonid McGill can't say no to the beautiful woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash and a story. She's married to a rich art collector. Now she fears for her life. Leonid knows better than to believe her, but he can't afford to turn her away, even if he knows this woman's tale will bring him straight to death's door. Today's Bargain Price: $8.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| All I Did Was Shoot My Man: A Leonid McGill Mystery (Leonid McGill series Book 4) by Walter Mosley Zella Grisham never denied shooting her boyfriend. That’s not why she did eight years of hard time on a sixteen-year sentence. It’s that the shooting inadvertently led to charges of grand theft. Talk about bad luck. Leonid McGill has reasons to believe she’s innocent. But reopening the case is only serving to unsettle McGill’s... Today's Bargain Price: $4.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers; Bestsellers | | |
| Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley When Walter Mosley burst onto the literary scene in 1990 with his first Easy Rawlins mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress —a combustible mixture of Raymond Chandler and Richard Wright—he captured the attention of hundreds of thousands of readers (including future president Bill Clinton). Eleven books later, Easy Rawlins is one of the few... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley introduces an "astonishing character" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) in this acclaimed collection of entwined tales. Meet Socrates Fortlow, a tough ex-con seeking truth and redemption in South Central Los Angeles -- and finding the miracle of survival."I either committed a crime or had a... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers; Bestsellers | | |
| The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery (Leonid McGill series Book 1) by Walter Mosley The widely praised New York Times bestseller, and Mosley's first new series since his acclaimed Easy Rawlins novels... Leonid McGill is an ex-boxer and a hard drinker looking to clean up his act. He's an old-school P.I. working a New York City that's gotten a little too fancy all around him. But it's still full of dirty secrets... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers; Bestsellers | | |
| Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel by Walter Mosley When Cordell Carmel catches his longtime girlfriend with another man, the act that he witnesses seems to dissolve all the boundaries he knows. He wants revenge, but also something more. Killing Johnny Fry is the story of Cordell's dark, funny, soulful, and outrageously explicit sexual odyssey in search of a new way of life. It marks... Today's Bargain Price: $7.55 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Sex & Erotica | | |
| Little Scarlet: A Novel (Easy Rawlins Book 9) by Walter Mosley Walter Mosley delivers at last the compelling master work everyone's been waiting for--a novel so intriguing, so soulful, so unstoppably dramatic that it will rank among the classic mysteries of our time. At the height of the riots that cripple LA in the summer of 1965, a white man is pulled from his car by a mob and escapes into a... Today's Bargain Price: $6.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers; Bestsellers | | |
| The Tempest Tales by Walter Mosley Mistaken for another man, wily Tempest is "accidentally" shot by police. Sent to receive the judgment of heaven he discovers his sins, according to St. Peter, condemn him to hell. Tempest takes exception to the saint's definition of sin; he refuses to go to hell and explains that he, a poor Black man living in Harlem, did what he did for... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Fantasy | | |
| The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley A masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family from one of the true literary icons of our time. Ptolemy Grey is ninety-one years old and has been all but forgotten-by his family, his friends, even himself-as he sinks into a lonely dementia. His grand-nephew, Ptolemy's only connection to the outside world, was recently... Today's Bargain Price: $14.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; Bestsellers | | |
| Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery (Leonid McGill series Book 2) by Walter Mosley "The newest of the great fictional detectives" ( Boston Globe ) from the New York Times bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins novels. When New York private eye Leonid McGill is hired to check up on a vulnerable young woman, all he discovers is a bloody crime scene-and the woman gone missing. His client doesn't want her found.... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| 47 by Walter Mosley New York Times Bestseller "Engaging." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review Master storyteller Walter Mosley deftly mixes speculative and historical fiction in this daring New York Times bestselling novel, reminiscent of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad . 47 is a young slave boy living under the watchful... Today's Bargain Price: $8.99 Categories: All Teen Lit | | |
| Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Stories by Walter Mosley Walter Mosley's bestselling and award-winning novels -- from Gone Fishin' to Devil in a Blue Dress, named one of the "100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century" by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association -- have endeared him to legions of readers from a U.S. president to everyday people who can't get enough of Easy Rawlins. Now from... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers; Bestsellers | | |
| Fear Itself: A Fearless Jones Novel (Fearless Jones #2) by Walter Mosley Written with the voice and vision that have made Mosley one of the most entertaining writers in America, "Fear Itself" marks the return of a master at the top of his form. Unabridged 6 CDs. Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| Bad Boy Brawly Brown: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley Easy Rawlins is out of the investigation business and as far away from crime as a black man can be in 1960s Los Angeles. But living around desperate men means life gets complicated sometimes. When an old friend gets in enough trouble to ask for Easy's help, he finds he can't refuse. Young Brawly Brown has traded in his family for The... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| The Greatest by Walter Mosley It was never proven that Fera Jones was the product of SepFem-G, the outlawed genetics program that came out of the feminist studies program at Smith College. But one thing was absolutely certain: When it came to boxing, Fera Jones floated like a butterfly and stung like a B-1 Bomber. . . .But would her incomparable skills in the ring... Today's Bargain Price: $6.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Whispers in the Dark by Walter Mosley Ptolemy Bent--"Popo"--is different. At an age when most babies are cooing "Mama, " Popo was speaking in complete sentences. He was reading college textbooks when he was still too young for nursery school. Popo may just be the smartest human being on Earth. And he spends all his time listening to the radio . . . to white noise that comes... Today's Bargain Price: $1.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| Parishioner by Walter Mosley An eBook original crime novel from bestselling author Walter Mosley, Parishioner is a portrait of a hardened criminal who regrets his past, but whose only hope for redemption is to sin again. In a small town situated between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, a simple church of white stone sits atop a hill on the coast. This... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| Twelve Steps Toward Political Revelation by Walter Mosley In his late teens and early twenties, Walter Mosley was addicted to alcohol and cigarettes. Drawing from this intimate knowledge of addiction and recovery, Mosley explores the deviances of contemporary America and describes a society in thrall to its own consumption. Although Americans live in the richest country on earth, many citizens... Today's Bargain Price: $8.99 Categories: All Nonfiction; All Politics, History and Current Events | | |
| Fearless Jones (Fearless Jones #1) by Walter Mosley Mosley returns to mysteries at last with his most engaging hero since Easy Rawlins. When Paris Minton meets a beautiful new woman, before he knows it he has been beaten up, slept with, shot at, robbed, and his bookstore burned to the ground. He's in so much trouble he has no choice but to get his friend, Fearless Jones, out of jail to... Today's Bargain Price: $6.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Cinnamon Kiss: A Novel (Easy Rawlins Book 10) by Walter Mosley It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time. And his friend, Mouse, tells him it's a cinch. Then another friend, Saul Lynx, offers... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| A Red Death: An Easy Rawlins Novel by Walter Mosley It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton, FBI, offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First American... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| White Butterfly: An Easy Rawlins Novel by Walter Mosley The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But Easy turns them down. He's... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| Blonde Faith (Easy Rawlins Book 11) by Walter Mosley Easy Rawlins, L.A.'s most reluctant detective, comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of his friend Chrismas Black, left on his doorstep. Easy knows that this could only mean that the ex-marine Black is probably dead, or will be soon. Easter's appearance is only the beginning, as Easy is immersed in a sea of problems. The love... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers; Bestsellers | | |
| Fear of the Dark: A Novel by Walter Mosley When his cousin Ulysses S. Grant IV comes knocking, Paris Minton would rather keep the door shut, because "Useless" is a snake who brings bad luck wherever he goes. But trouble always finds an open window, and soon there's a man murdered on his bookshop floor, evidence of blackmail is discovered, and Useless has vanished. To get out of... Today's Bargain Price: $6.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley No more excuses. "Let the lawn get shaggy and the paint peel from the walls," bestselling novelist Walter Mosley advises. Anyone can write a novel now, and in this essential book of tips, practical advice, and wisdom, Walter Mosley promises that the writer-in-waiting can finish it in one year. Intended as both inspiration and... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Nonfiction; Writing and Publishing | | |
| Fortunate Son: A Novel by Walter Mosley Tommy's nickname is Lucky, but no one would think this crippled boy was blessed. Cursed with health problems and drawn into trouble more often than not, Tommy is the recipient of pity rather than admiration. He is nothing like his stepbrother Eric. Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seemingly endless supply of good fortune-he is... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; Bestsellers | | |
| Diablerie: A Novel by Walter Mosley With the same erotic force as Killing Johnny Fry , this time with a far darker plot and damning view of human nature, Diablerie is a transfixing novel from a writer who is a master in any genre. Today's Bargain Price: $5.29 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers; All Sex & Erotica | | |
| Walkin' the Dog by Walter Mosley Socrates Fortlow, an ex-convict forced to define his own morality in a lawless world, confronts wrongs that most people would rather ignore and comes face-to-face with the most dangerous emotion: hope. It has been nine years since his release from prison, and he still makes his home in a two-room shack in a Watts alley. But he has a... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Karma: A Penguin eSpecial from Riverhead HC (National Poetry Series) by Walter Mosley When Walter Mosley published the first Leonid McGill novel, The Long Fall—the acclaimed New York Times bestseller that is now being developed as a series for HBO—it was clear that this new hero was a man with a past. He was a private investigator who had “decided to go from crooked to slightly bent,” turning down the shady but... Today's Bargain Price: $2.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| Odyssey by Walter Mosley In this gripping and provocative eBook original novel celebrated bestselling author Walter Mosley explores the mind of an African-American man who is forced to re-examine his most closely held beliefs about race and about himself. Sovereign James wakes up one morning to discover that he’s gone blind. Sovereign’s doctors... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow by Walter Mosley Living in south central L.A., Socrates Fortlow is a sixty-year-old ex-convict still strong enough to kill men with his bare hands. Filled with profound guilt about his own crimes and disheartened by the chaos of the streets, Socrates calls together local people of all races and social stations and begins to conduct a Thinkers’ Club... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| The Man in My Basement: A Novel by Walter Mosley Hailed as a masterpiece-the finest work yet by an American novelist of the first rank-this is the mysterious story of a young black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has belonged to his family for generations.The man at Charles Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. The stranger... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers; Bestsellers | | |
| Disciple: A Novel from Crosstown to Oblivion by Walter Mosley Walter Mosley's talent knows no bounds. Disciple is one of six fragments in the Crosstown to Oblivion short novels in which Mosley entertainingly explores life's cosmic questions. From life's meaning to the nature of good and evil, these tales take us on speculative journeys beyond the reality we have come to know. In each tale... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Categories: All Science Fiction | | |
| Inside a Silver Box: A Novel by Walter Mosley Walter Mosley's talent knows no bounds. Inside a Silver Box continues to explore the cosmic questions entertainingly discussed in his Crosstown to Oblivion . From life's meaning to the nature of good and evil, Mosley takes readers on a speculative journey beyond reality. In Inside a Silver Box , two people brought together by a... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Categories: All Fantasy; All Science Fiction | | |
| Conversations with Walter Mosley (Literary Conversations Series) by Owen E. Brady The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and writing. Since the 1990 publication of his first novel, Devil in a Blue Dress , Mosley (b. 1952) has published over thirty books in a tremendous range of genres and modes: crime and... Today's Bargain Price: $17.50 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Nonfiction; All Sex & Erotica | | |
| Stepping Stone and Love Machine: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion by Walter Mosley Walter Mosley's talent knows no bounds. Stepping Stone and Love Machine are but two of six fragments in the Crosstown to Oblivion short novels in which Mosley entertainingly explores life's cosmic questions. From life's meaning to the nature of good and evil, these tales take us on speculative journeys beyond the reality we have... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Categories: All Science Fiction | | |
| The Wave by Walter Mosley The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Blue Light" returns to the realm of science fiction. Errol is awakened by a strange prank caller claiming to be his father, who has been dead for several years. Curious, and not a little unnerved, Errol sneaks into the graveyard where his father is buried. What he finds will change his life... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Categories: All Science Fiction | | |
| The Gift of Fire: A Novel from Crosstown to Oblivion by Walter Mosley In ancient mythology, the Titan Prometheus was punished by the gods for bringing man the gift of fire—an event that set humankind on its course of knowledge. As punishment for making man as powerful as gods, Prometheus was bound to a rock; every day his immortal body was devoured by a giant eagle. But in The Gift of Fire , those... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Categories: All Fantasy; All Science Fiction | | |
| The Gift of Fire and On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion by Walter Mosley New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley delivers two speculative tales, in one volume, of everyday people exposed to life-altering truths. The Gift of Fire In ancient mythology, the Titan Prometheus was punished by the gods for bringing man the gift of fire—an event that set humankind on its course of knowledge. As... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Categories: All Fantasy; All Science Fiction | | |
| Love Machine: A Novel from Crosstown to Oblivion by Walter Mosley Walter Mosley's talent knows no bounds. Love Machine is one of six fragments in the Crosstown to Oblivion short novels in which Mosley entertainingly explores life's cosmic questions. From life's meaning to the nature of good and evil, these tales take us on speculative journeys beyond the reality we have come to know. In each tale... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Categories: All Science Fiction | | |
| Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Hardcover)) by Walter Mosley Walter Mosley’s indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve.Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins finds his life in transition. He’s ready—finally—to propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, and start... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers; All Sex & Erotica | | |
| And Sometimes I Wonder About You: A Leonid McGill Mystery (Leonid McGill series Book 5) by Walter Mosley The welcome return of Leonid McGill, Walter Mosley's NYC-based private eye, his East Coast foil to his immortal L.A.-based detective Easy Rawlins. As the Boston Globe raved, "A poignantly real character, [McGill is] not only the newest of the great fictional detectives, but also an incisive and insightful commentator on the American... Today's Bargain Price: $4.99 Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| Merge: A Novel from Crosstown to Oblivion by Walter Mosley Raleigh Redman loved Nicci Charbon until she left him heartbroken. Then he hit the lotto for twenty-four million dollars, quit his minimum wage job and set his sights on one goal: reading the entire collection of lectures in the Popular Educator Library, the only thing his father left behind after he died. As Raleigh is trudging through... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
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