WALTER MOSLEY - TROUBLE IS WHAT I DO

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A Black private investigator steps outside his personal code to strike a blow against a white supremacist institution. Timely. This brief, drum tight novel is narrated by the character Leonid McGill, and McGill is the rare narrator in fiction I feel I can fully trust. Not just on the level of reliability — there are plenty of earnest narrators out there — but on the level of morality. I can relate to and empathize with characters whose moral compasses are not fully calibrated with mine, but McGill gets the benefit of full calibration, and that’s a rare treat for me. I’ve been absent from Walter Mosley’s world for too long. Feels good to be back. Read, June 2020.