Unlike many detectives who populate the pages of hard-boiled prose, Rawlins is a multidimensional character who stumbled into his sleuthing career as a means to pay mounting debts. Much of Mosley ’s success has been due to the powerful recurring character of Ezekiel ( “Easy ”) Rawlins, one of the most innovative private investigators to appear in fiction. ” Librarys Journal ’s review of A Red Death noted, “As before, Mosley ’s inclusion of life in Watts, contemporary social attitudes, and colloquial speech contribute to the excellence and authenticity of plot and character portrayal. Lomax wrote in American Visions that Mosley has “a special talent for layering time and place with words and ideas. He has also branched out into the areas of science fiction and social commentary.Ĭritics have praised Mosley ’s writing for its realistic portrayal of street life in African American neighborhoods of post- World War II Los Angeles. His novels are all written from an African American perspective. Walter Mosley has broken new ground as a mystery writer by incorporating issues of race into novels that stand on their own as gripping detective fiction.
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