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Overview

The Walter Mosley and his new hero, Leonid McGill, are back in the new New York Times-bestselling mystery series that's already being hailed as a classic of contemporary noir.

Leonid McGill-the protagonist introduced in The Long Fall, the book that returned Walter Mosley to bestseller lists nationwide -is still fighting to stick to his reformed ways while the world around him pulls him in every other direction. He has split up with his girlfriend, Aura, because his new self won't let him leave his wife-but then Aura's new boyfriend starts angling to get Leonid kicked out of his prime, top-of-the­skyscraper office space. Meanwhile, one of his sons seems to have found true love-but the girl has a shady past that's all of sudden threatening the whole McGill family-and his other son, the charming rogue Twilliam, is doing nothing but enabling the crisis.

Most ominously of all, Alfonse Rinaldo, the mysterious power-behind- the-throne at City Hall, the fixer who seems to control every little thing that happens in New York City, has a problem that even he can't fix- and he's come to Leonid for help. It seems a young woman has disappeared, leaving murder in her wake, and it means everything to Rinaldo to track her down. But he won't tell McGill his motives, which doesn't quite square with the new company policy- but turning down Rinaldo is almost impossible to even contemplate.

Known to Evil delivers on all the promise of the characters and story lines introduced in The Long Fall, and then some. It careens fast and deep into gritty, glittery contemporary Manhattan, making the city pulse in a whole new way, and it firmly establishes Leonid McGill as one of the mystery world's most iconic, charismatic leading men.

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Marilyn Stasio
The voice of the narrator—low, intense and soaked in melancholy—is what hooks us in Known to Evil…[Mosley's] characters…live and breathe genre lingo, even when they're just talking with their fists.
—The New York Times
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Bestseller Mosley scores a clean knockout in his excellent second mystery featuring New York City PI Leonid McGill (after 2009’s The Long Fall). Still striving to atone for some of the lives he’s ruined, the 54-year-old McGill laments that there are “no straight lines in the life or labors of the private detective.” Instead, crises crowd him at every turn. A powerful, shadowy city hall official wants McGill to locate and protect a young woman named Tara Lear, a task complicated by a murder. Older son Dimitri is involved with a Russian hooker whose pimp doesn’t want to let her go. Younger son Twill, trying to help his brother, risks violating parole restrictions. Relations with wife Katrina and lover Aura Ullman, “with her Aryan eyes and Ethiopian skin,” are in flux. The ex-boxer has an eclectic group in his corner, including computer whiz Tiny “Bug” Bateman, but McGill is the one taking the blows and meting out punishment in this contemporary noir gem. Author tour. (Mar.)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781594487521
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 3/23/2010
  • Pages: 326
  • Sales rank: 538,394
  • Series: Leonid McGill Series, #2
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley
A genre-bending author who can move from science-fiction to mysteries, Walter Mosley is perhaps best-known -- and loved -- for his 1940s and ‘50s noir crime novels starring the cool, complex detective Easy Rawlins.

Biography

When President Bill Clinton announced that Walter Mosley was one of his favorite writers, Black Betty (1994), Mosley's third detective novel featuring African American P.I. Easy Rawlins, soared up the bestseller lists. It's little wonder Clinton is a fan: Mosley's writing, an edgy, atmospheric blend of literary and pulp fiction, is like nobody else's. Some of his books are detective fiction, some are sci-fi, and all defy easy categorization.

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 -- and the world was introduced to a startlingly different P.I.

Part of the success of the Easy Rawlins series is Mosley's gift for character development. Easy, who stumbles into detective work after being laid off by the aircraft industry, ages in real time in the novels, marries, and experiences believable financial troubles and successes. In addition, 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."

Despite the success of his bestselling crime series, Mosley is a writer who resolutely resists pigeonholing. He regularly pens literary fiction, short stories, essays, and sci-fi novels, and he has made bold forays into erotica, YA fiction, and political polemic. "I didn't start off being a mystery writer," he said in an interview with NPR. "There's many things that I am." Fans of this talented, genre-bending author could not agree more!

Good To Know

Mosley won a Grammy award in 2002 in the category of "Best Album Notes" for Richard Pryor.... And It's Deep, Too! The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968-1992).

Mosley is an avid potter in his spare time.

In our 2004 interview, Mosley reveals:

"I was a computer programmer for 15 years before publishing my first book. I am an avid collector of comic books. And I believe that war is rarely the answer, especially not for its innocent victims."

    1. Hometown:
      New York, New York
    1. Date of Birth:
      January 12, 1952
    2. Place of Birth:
      Los Angeles, California
    1. Education:
      B.A., Johnson State College
    2. Website:
      http://www.waltermosley.com
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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 4, 2010

    Great Read.

    Another great read. Would recommend to anyone into mysteries.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted June 28, 2010

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    Better Than The First

    I recently got into Walter Mosely's mysteries and I was excited about this new Leonid McGill series. The first ("Long Fall") left me feeling a bit unfulfilled. But this one has definitely restored my belief in the author and provided a new love for Leonid. It is a must read and I would recommend it to all!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 2, 2010

    Don't waste your money!

    The character Leonid MacGill was a disappointment. What black man or white for that matter would take back a cheating wife that runs off with another man, returns and ask to be taken back after her lover is arrested, have a child by another man while married? lastly, she now has a young lover which her husband is aware of, yet he allows her to remain in the marriage because he also is a cheater. Unreal, not believable, I did not enjoy reading about his underworld, low life so call friends whom helped him with his investigation of a missing girl.

    1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 24, 2010

    Leonid is the Man

    Another bestseller. Bravo Mr. Mosley. The grittiness of the characters portrayed made it easy for me to follow the story and become entrenched in the story being told. Mosely always takes the time to build his characters especially the family members Leonid struggles to keep safe and unfortunately to keep Leonid's emotional balance even when Leonid gives up his own happiness for others.

    I cannot wait for the next book in the series.

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  • Posted April 5, 2010

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    Likable Leonid

    Know to Evil is also known to many implausible situations- too many to get a 4 star rating, yet the main character, PI Leonid McGill, saves the book with his likable character. You want him to succeed, even if you know that the situation he is in is so contrived as to be cartoonish.

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  • Posted July 8, 2011

    Great book

    Keeps you going wanting to know whats going to happen next

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  • Posted April 17, 2011

    Leonid McGill, 2nd round!

    Rule 1: Don't come here looking for Easy Rawlin's. Wrong locale.
    Now then: If you read book one and like Leonid, this book brings even more reality to his world, his connections, his vices and his attempts to do the right thing, his shadowy past. As a character, he is well-drawn, and the mishaps of his mission to make sense of multiple mysterious cases going on around him makes a good read.

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  • Posted August 11, 2010

    Great Book

    Great Read. Mosley does it again.

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  • Posted April 19, 2010

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    Leonid McGill #2

    Leonid McGill is 50-something, short, pudgy and bald. He's also a private detective, who had done nasty work and now is trying to be on the straight and narrow...sort of. He's got a bunch of friends he can call on for various services, as required, and they all show up in Known to Evil, the second in McGill series.

    Alphonse Rinaldo, a secrete power in the New York City government, calls upon McGill to find the whereabouts of Tara Lear. Going to her last known address, he finds himself in the midst of a murder investigation of one, Wanda Soa. Since McGill is not a favorite of New York's finest, he finds himself a suspect.

    In the midst of this, his sons Dimitri and Twilliam are trying to help a Russian girl who was forced into prostitution--Dimitri has a crush on her. Lastly, a women Leonid loves (he's in a loveless, cheating marriage) has found a new boyfriend.

    I like several things about this series. I like the fact it takes place in New York. I like the characters. Leonid's father was a Communist and he's transferred his dislike of the establishment to Leonid. Leonid philosophizes throughout the book. He's a really likeable character. Actually, all the characters are likeable. There's enough action and enough blood, but not too much. Mosley's books are fast reads, but they also make you think about life. A good combination--mystery and philosophy.

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  • Posted April 10, 2010

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    Mr Mosley has done it again

    Leonid McGill is a new private eye character of Mr. Walter Mosley, Since we bid farwell to Easy Rawlins , MacGill has defintely filled the shoes. This book is a good read, I reccomend it whole heartedly. McGill is a middle aged balding tough guy with a brain and a heart. The road he takes us on is one of mystery, sometimes violent, but always entertaining. Known to Evil is a book of twists and turns, brings emotions, anger and humor, sometiomes all at once. This charachter has great potential and I think we will be hearing much much more from him, at least I hope so!!! BRAVO Mr. Mosley yet another masterpiece.

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