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And Sometimes I Wonder About You: A Leonid McGill Mystery

by Walter Mosley
Doubleday. May 2015. 304p. ISBN 9780385539180. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9780385539197. M
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In his fifth Leonid McGill novel (after All I Did Was Shoot My Man), Mosley immerses McGill, and his readers, in the underbelly world of criminals, prostitutes, parolees, and wealthy women. Add to this mix both Hiram Stent, a client who's searching for his cousin and millions of inheritance dollars, and Twill, McGill's son, who's trying to help an amateur thief and his girlfriend. Being an ex-boxer and hard drinker, McGill imagines he can balance these investigations with his tumultuous personal life—until hit men unexpectedly break into his office and murder his client.
VERDICT Mosley writes chaotic and convoluted stories but resolves them in creative and imaginative ways. His colorful character descriptions ("her voice was…in the register of gold") invite readers to enter Mosley's world and find delight amid destruction ("her beauty denied her 45 years"). [See Prepub Alert, 11/17/14.]
Reviewed by Jerry P. Miller. Cambridge, MA , May 15, 2015
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