VJ Books Presents Walter Mosley!

Mosley was born in Los Angeles, traveled east to college, and found his way into writing fiction by way of working as a computer programmer, caterer, and potter. His first Easy Rawlins book, Gone Fishin' didn't find a publisher, but the next, Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) most certainly did.

Mosley's ability to evoke atmosphere -- the dangers and complexities of life in the toughest neighborhoods of Los Angeles truly shines. His treatment of historic detail (the Rawlins books take place in Los Angeles from the 1940s to the mid-1960s) is impeccable, his dialogue fine-tuned and dead-on.

In 2002, Mosley introduced a new series featuring Fearless Jones, an Army vet with a rigid moral compass, and his friend, a used-bookstore owner named Paris Minton. The series is set in the black neighborhoods of 1950s L.A. and captures the racial climate of the times. Mosley himself summed up the first book, 2002's Fearless Jones, as "comic noir with a fringe of social realism."

All I Did Was Shoot My Man Signed First Edition

Little Yellow Dog   Signed First Edition

Cinnamon Kiss       Signed First Edition

Fear Itself                Signed First Edition

Known to Evil          Signed First Edition

Black Betty                                     Signed First Edition

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Walter Mosley Bibliography

Easy Rawlins Series

1.   Devil in a Blue Dress (1990)
2.   A Red Death (1991)
3.   White Butterfly (1992)
4.   Black Betty (1994)
5.   A Little Yellow Dog (1995)
6.   Gone Fishin' (1996)
7.   Bad Boy Brawly Brown (2000)
8.   Six Easy Pieces (2003)
9.   Little Scarlet (2004)
10. Cinnamon Kiss (2005)
11. Blonde Faith (2007)

Socrates Fortlow Series

1.  Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (1997)
2.  Walkin' the Dog (1999)
3.  The Right Mistake (2008)

Fearless Jones Series

1.  Fearless Jones (2001)
2.  Fear Itself (2003)
3.  Fear of the Dark (2006)

Leonid McGill Series

1.  The Long Fall (2009)
2.  Known to Evil (2010)
3.  When the Thrill is Gone (2011)

Other Novels

RL's Dream (1995)
Blue Light (1998)
The Greatest (2000)
Whispers in the Dark (2000)
The Man in My Basement (2004)
47 (2005)
The Wave (2006)
Fortunate Son (2006)
Killing Johnny Fry (2006)
The Tempest Tales (2008)
Diablerie (2008)
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (2010)

Collections

Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World (2001)

Contributions

Best American Short Stories (with Katrina Kenison)
The Best American Short Stories 2003 (2003)
The Best American Short Stories 2003
Transgressions (with Joyce Carol Oates)
Chasing Shadows (2005)

Anthologies Edited

Black Genius (1999)

Non-Fiction

Working on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History (1999)
What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace (2003)
Life Out of Context (2006)
This Year You Write Your Novel (2007)

Twelve Steps Toward Political Revelation (2011)

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