All I Did Was Shoot My Man
Leonid McGill 4
$44.21
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
14 May 2013
Summary
Seven years ago Zella Grisham was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder and grand theft. After two years of fruitless negotiations Zella was sentenced to 25 years in prison, mainly because she refused to give up her accomplices in a $6.8 million heist from Rutgers Assurance Corp.
But Zella had played no part in that heist. PI Leonid McGill had planted the evidence. All Zella had done was shoot her man, her cheating husband Ha…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780220963 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780220960 |
| Author: | Walter Mosley |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2013 |
| Weight: | 244g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 132mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Leonid McGill mysteries |
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Praise for “All I Did Was Shoot My Man
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“The best [McGill] book yet.”–“The Boston Globe
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“Like the city he works in, and the Mosley books he inhabits, Leonid McGill is complicated, savvy and full of surprises: a would-be champ who can’t win for losing, a fighter who can never be counted out.”–“The Wall Street Journal
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“A big city never looks the same once you’ve walked its streets with a hard-boiled private eye. preferably someone as perceptive and thoughtful as Leonid McGill…[He] doesn’t so much walk the city as case it for danger. Keeping pace with him is as much an education as an adventure.”–“The New York Times Book Review
”“Mosley ratchets up the tension with each new installment in his compelling series.”–“Star-Ledger
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“Walter Mosley has proven over and over again during the past two decades that he is not only one of America’s greatest mystery writers, but is one of America’s greatest writers period–an American literary treasure. And in “All I Did Was Shoot My Man”…Mosley has given us one of his best works ever. In Leonid McGill, Mosley has created a character Dostoyevsky would have loved. [He] has written a mystery novel that transcends the genre–a private-eye story for the new, uncertain and constantly dangerous century. “All I Did Was Shoot My Man “is one of the best books of [the year] and you can’t help but root for Leonid McGill. We have much to look forward to with this series. Kudos to Walter Mosley.”–BookReporter.com
“The best in the series to date…complex, satisfying.”–“Publishers Weekly
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“Exceptional storytelling.”–“Library Journal
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About The Author
Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley is the author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series of mysteries; the novels Blue Light, RL’s Dream, Futureland, FEARLESS JONES and FEAR ITSELF; and two collections of stories. He was born in Los Angeles and lives in New York.
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