The Hard Word: FAMILY MATTERS: WALTER MOSLEY'S GRAY DAWN

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The Rap Sheet: Majority Applause for Minority Authors

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Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: Two Stories from OxCrimes

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: Two Stories from OxCrimes:   I have had OxCrimes , edited by Mark Ellingham and Peter Florence, for several years and previously had only read six stories from that an...

Unlawful Acts for 9/16/2020: A Nun, Walter Mosley, and Lee Matthew Goldberg

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Bitter Tea and Mystery Review: Fearless Jones by Walter Mosley

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Fearless Jones: Walter Mosley: The star of this book (and the narrator) is Paris Minton, but there would not be much of a story without his friend Fearless Jones. They are...

Crime Watch: Review: CHARCOAL JOE

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DMN: 'I like writing about people who are evil, but they have good reason to be evil:' Walter Mosley heads to Dallas

DMN:  'I like writing about people who are evil, but they have good reason to be evil:' Walter Mosley heads to Dallas

Only days left to win books by Joanne Fluke, Denise Swanson, Walter Mosley & many more from KRL

Only days left to win a copy of "Raspberry Danish Murder" by Joanne Fluke
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And to win a copy of "Tart of Darkness" by Denise Swanson, & while there
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Also to win a copy of "Death al Fresco" by Leslie Karst, & while there
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And to win copies of of some more fun food mysteries-"Death by Chocolate
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Happy Easter!
Lorie

Crime Time : DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA – Walter Mosley

Crime Time : DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA – Walter Mosley: The people who framed NYPD Detective First Class Joe King Oliver, killing his career, his marriage, his respect for the law, his self-res...

Review: Down The River Unto The Sea by Walter Mosley

Joe King Oliver has been out of prison for 10 years as Down The River Unto The Sea by Walter Mosley begins. A disgraced NYPD detective, these days he runs a small private investigative agency consisting of himself and his wise beyond her years teenage daughter. He does so from small office on the second floor of a building on Montague Street. Progress, as some would define it, is coming to the neighborhood which means rents are going up and the old places are being replaced increasingly by fancy condos, shops and, the like for above the pay grade of those who walk these streets and built the neighborhood. While Oliver got a sweet deal on the place and is fine for now the way he got it is just a small part of the hellish backstory his life was a decade ago. 

The fact that he never did what he was accused of didn’t matter because the frame was so good. He should have been killed. He wasn’t and yet the person he was died in prison. What happened to him is a case that will never be resolved. That is until he gets a letter that changes everything.

At the same time, he gets another case that also involves crooked NYPD officers. Two of them were gunned down several years ago. A man wounded in the shootout with officer is headed for the death penalty despite the efforts of well-known attorney Stuart Brown. It had looked like Brown was doing everything to prove his client known as “A Free Man” innocent of the murder. That is until the lawyer backed off, a witness disappeared, and more. A person involved in the case wants Joe’s help in proving A Free Man’s case.

Doing so might also be a way in for his own case.

What follows is an incredible read as Joe Oliver deals with repercussions from his past, the legacy of family, and the criminality of the moment. Author Walter Mosley, has a style in this read, as do the works of James Lee Burke, where the storytelling carries incredible impact with just a few words and at the same time paints a world rich in color and nuance. The two cases and a few other tangentially related matters slowly converge in one giant maelstrom that threatens to ensnare everything Joe Oliver has worked for these past years.

The read is intense, emotional, and powerfully good. A read that is so layered this review barely touches the surface. Down The River Unto The Sea: A Novel by Walter Mosley was my first experience with this author and it certainly won’t be my last. Highly recommended.  This is one of those books you just have to read. Period.

Down The River Unto The Sea: A Novel
Walter Mosley
http://www.waltermosely.com
Mulholland Books (Little, Brown and Company)
http://www.mulhollandbooks.com
2018
ISBN# 978-0-316-43998-5
LARGE PRINT Hardback (also available in regular print hardback, audio, and eBook formats)
440 Pages
$29.00

Material supplied by the good folks of the Dallas Public Library and specifically the wonderful staff of the Lochwood Branch. While both Scott and I miss our old stomping ground at the Haggard Branch up in Plano, the people of the Lochwood Branch have been very good to both of us.

Kevin R. Tipple ©2018

Crime Time : SIX EASY PIECES – Walter Mosley

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Thomas Pluck Reviews: Down the River unto the Sea by Walter Mosley

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SleuthSayers: The Terror of Daylight – Neo Noirs for a Rainy Day...

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SleuthSayers: "Crossing Genres: The Literary Mystery"

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