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Karma - Walter Mosley

By Walter Mosley

Release Date: 2011-03-03

Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers

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From the author of the award winning Devil in a Blue Dress comes a short story rife with mystery and suspense, an enthralling introduction to the complex protagonist Leonid McGill. 

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 lucrative work that New York’s thugs and mobsters had long brought to his door. In Karma, Walter Mosley tells us the story of the moment McGill decided to change his ways, when a seemingly classic femme fatale forced him to confront the reality of his life of corruption and betrayal. It was the culmination of a dark and tragic case that reached back through McGill’s entire career, plumbing the full, complex history of the soul-scarred figure now hailed as “a poignantly real character . . . [and] a more than worthy successor to Philip Marlowe.” (The Boston Globe) Originally published in Otto Penzler’s anthology Dangerous Women, Karma was included in Best American Mystery Stories 2006, edited by Scott Turow.

Karma - Walter Mosley

By Walter Mosley

Release Date: 2011-03-03

Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers

4 (109 ratings)
Read Download
From the author of the award winning Devil in a Blue Dress comes a short story rife with mystery and suspense, an enthralling introduction to the complex protagonist Leonid McGill. 

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 lucrative work that New York’s thugs and mobsters had long brought to his door. In Karma, Walter Mosley tells us the story of the moment McGill decided to change his ways, when a seemingly classic femme fatale forced him to confront the reality of his life of corruption and betrayal. It was the culmination of a dark and tragic case that reached back through McGill’s entire career, plumbing the full, complex history of the soul-scarred figure now hailed as “a poignantly real character . . . [and] a more than worthy successor to Philip Marlowe.” (The Boston Globe) Originally published in Otto Penzler’s anthology Dangerous Women, Karma was included in Best American Mystery Stories 2006, edited by Scott Turow.

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And Sometimes I Wonder About You

When the Thrill Is Gone

The Long Fall

Known to Evil

Every Man a King

Blonde Faith

A Red Death

Karma

White Butterfly

Little Scarlet

A Little Yellow Dog

Farewell, Amethystine

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Black Betty

Trouble Is What I Do

Cinnamon Kiss

Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore

This Year You Write Your Novel

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

The Expendable Man

Bad Boy Brawly Brown

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Fearless Jones

Gray Dawn

The Man in My Basement

Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right

The Awkward Black Man

Whispers in the Dark

Fear of the Dark

Fear Itself

Fortunate Son

Odyssey

John Woman

Jack Strong

Walkin' the Dog

Elements of Fiction

The Right Mistake

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RL's Dream

Hanging and Burning

Killing Johnny Fry

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