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—Jonathan Kellerman
“The social commentary is sly, the dialogue fabulous, the noir atmosphere so real you could touch it. A first novel? That’s what they say. Amazing. Smashing.”
—Cosmopolitan
“Richly atmospheric…. A fast-moving, entertaining story.”
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GONE FISHIN’
“It is, in some respects, the best of Mosley’s novels…. Mosley displays a pitch-perfect gift for capturing the cadences of black speech that rivals the dialogue in Ralph Ellison’s
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“A powerfully raw, lyrical coming-of-age story…. This late encounter with the early Easy offers an extra dimension to readers who have met, in previous stories, the man he grew to be.”
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Devil in a Blue Dress
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IT WAS THE DOG’S FAULT.
