All I Did Was Shoot My Man

All I Did Was Shoot My Man

We speak with Walter Mosley about his latest Leonid McGill mystery and its hero, a man troubled by his own family issues who is drawn into a case he thought was behind him.

Whether he's writing about his beloved Easy Rawlins ("Devil in a Blue Dress")or his more recent hero, Leonid McGill, Walter Mosley explores the darker side of human nature with deep insight and page-turning suspense. His latest Leonid McGill mystery centers on a man plagued by his own family issues who gets drawn back into a case he thought he put behind him. We speak with Mosley about creating black heroes in the age of Obama.

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Reprinted by arrangement with Riverhead, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., from "All I Did Was Shoot My Man" by Walter Mosley. Copyright 2012 Thing Itself, Inc.:

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