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I liked the fact that walter mosley showed different aspects of leonids life and how he balanced his nuances of other peoples problems and solves them all including the cases hes actually paid to take care of for better worse. He has split up with his girlfriend, aura, because his new self wont let him leave his wife but then auras new boyfriend starts angling to get leonid. Leonid mcgill is an exboxer and a hard drinker looking to clean up his act. Mc gill is an engaging creation, saddled with a faithless wife, an adoring mistress and a son who appears to be planning a murder of his own. The first leonid mcgill mystery leonid mcgill series book 1 ebook. Read the long fall the first leonid mcgill mystery by walter mosley available from rakuten kobo. The pretension is by getting the long fall leonid mcgill 1 walter mosley as one of the reading material. The overdrive read format of this ebook has professional narration that plays while you read in your browser. The widely praised new york times bestseller, and mosley s first new series since his acclaimed easy rawlins novels. The long fall shows walter mosley at the height of his powers, breathing new life into american crime writing with sassy dialogue and unflinching social truths.
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