Mosley, Walter

Manhattan private detective Leonid McGill, not quite accustomed to his commitment to the straight and narrow, cannot say no when Alphonse Rinaldo, New York City's ultimate fixer, asks him to run uptown and check on a young woman, and he is not surprised when he walks into a murder scene that makes him a prime suspect in the eyes of the police, and determines to find the now-missing girl and learn the truth about what is really going on.

After a doctor touts an experimental drug that will shorten his life, but restore his failing memory and vigor, Ptolemy Grey is spurred to action after investigating his own past, his apartment and the circumstances surrounding his grand-nephew's death in a drive-by shooting.

An ex-convict must deal with a rogue cop who is terrorizing the neighborhood, even as he tries to stay out of trouble and establish a meaningful life outside of prison.

Challenges African-Americans to play a stronger role in world peace, and denounces the United States government for making money off of war.

Ex-convict Socrates Fortlow is finally getting his life in order when he becomes the chief suspect in a series of crimes, and now he must find a way to prove his innocence and preserve the life he has made for himself.

Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.

It's 1953 in Red-bating, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and the favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. FBI Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist union organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when the murders begin.

When people on earth are bathed in a blue light from the stars, they are instantly transformed into smarter, healthier, and more loving beings, but soon conflict develops between those who have seen the light and those who haven't, and Chance seems to be the only one who can keep the peace.

Unemployed African-American veteran Easy Rawlins accepts an offer of some detective work in 1948 from white gangster Dewitt Albright, who wants Easy to scour the jazz joints of Los Angeles in an effort to locate blonde femme fatale Daphne Monet.