Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley

Down the River Unto the Sea

Walter Mosley, Dion Graham, Mulholland Books

Little, Brown and Company · Print & ebook · February 26, 2019

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Who it’s for
A hard-boiled investigation pairs private-eye suspense with a clear-eyed look at corruption and injustice.
Genres
Black Mystery, Private Eye Fiction, Hard-Boiled Mystery
Published
Little, Brown and Company, February 26, 2019

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About this book

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel of the Year: bestselling author Walter Mosley "is back with a whole new character to love...As gorgeous a novel as anything he's ever written" (Washington Post). Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators until he was framed for sexual assault by unknown enemies within the force. A decade has passed since his release from Rikers, and he now runs a private detective agency with the help of his teenage daughter.

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Physically and emotionally broken by the brutality he suffered while behind bars, King leads a solitary life, his work and his daughter the only lights. When he receives a letter from his accuser confessing that she was paid to frame him years ago, King decides to find out who wanted him gone and why. On a quest for the justice he was denied, King agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers. Their cases intertwine across the years and expose a pattern of corruption and brutality wielded against the black men, women, and children whose lives the law destroyed. All the while, two lives hang in the balance: King's client's and his own. "A wild ride that delivers hard-boiled satisfaction while toying with our prejudices and preconceptions." —Steph Cha, Los Angeles Times

Justice, Under Pressure

A hard-boiled investigation pairs private-eye suspense with a clear-eyed look at corruption and injustice.

Come here for

  • Hard-boiled private-eye work with questions of justice and police corruption
  • A mystery that challenges easy assumptions about who gets believed

Expect

  • A solitary investigator drawn into cases with stakes close to home
  • Tension that unsettles as much as it satisfies

Where it sits

Black Mystery79%
Hard-Boiled Mystery62%
Private Eye Fiction42%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • British Mystery
  • Private Eye Fiction
  • Black Mystery
Authors
Walter Mosley, Dion Graham, Mulholland Books
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Published
February 26, 2019
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
British Mystery