And Sometimes I Wonder About You

Mosley and his new hero return, in a series that's already being hailed as a classic of contemporary noir.

Alfonse Rinaldo needs help. The power behind the throne at City Hall has a problem even he can't solve. Leonid McGill, the ageing PI with a kick-started conscience isn't the obvious choice. But when the phone rings one night - requesting McGill's presence at an uptown address - it would seem the puppeteer of New York's underworld is having his strings well and truly pulled.

McGill's sons are in trouble; his women are playing away. And now he's walked straight into a crime scene. A girl lies with her face blown off; her assassin's been felled by a knife. But the dead girl isn't the one Alphonse sent McGill to find, and her killer's injuries don't make sense. With the NYPD hot on his heels, and Alphonse setting the pace, McGill begins a quest that takes him from glittering boardrooms to gritty backstreets via some pretty dark secrets of his own.

Putting The Long Fall's colourful cast into an explosive new situation, Known to Evil delivers on all the promise of its predecessor - and then some. Through stunning dialogue and Mosley's gimlet eye for American society, Known to Evil firmly establishes Leonid McGill as one of the mystery world's most iconic, charismatic leading men.