Fear of the Dark - Tapa blanda

Praise for the Fearless Jones novels: ?This is classic noir territory, filled with unintentional heroes with the best intentions and dangerous dames; best of all are the rhythms and cadences of language on the page. A class act? Time Out ?This is Mosley?s return to crime writing, and he slips back into the habit like a thirsty man taking a long cool drink... the countless twists make the novel as entertaining as the best Bogart thrillers? Guardian ?Confirms Mosley as one of America?s most gifted writers, of any genre? The Times ?Walter Mosley packs his dialogue tight like a fist, but the economy of language is beautifully lifted by the blues cadences of the characters? dialect? Daily Telegraph

?I?m in trouble, Paris.? Paris Minton has heard these words before. They mean only one thing: that his neck is on the line too. So when they are uttered by his lowlife cousin Ulysses S. Grant, Paris keeps the door to his bookshop firmly closed. With family like Ulysses - ?Useless? to everyone except his mother - who needs enemies? But trouble always finds an open window, and before long Paris is paying a call on his long-time friend and bodyguard, Fearless Jones. Criss-crossing the complicated landscape of 1950s Los Angeles, where a wrong look can get a black man killed, Paris and Fearless find desperate women, secret lives, and more than one dead body along the way. Walter Mosley serves up another taut mystery plot humming with brilliant characterisations, sharp dialogue and dark humour - a combination as fresh and zesty as ever.