“Walter Mosley is a new, strong, and original voice, here to stay and not to be missed.” —The Los Angeles Times

“[The Easy Rawlins mysteries are] at once exotic, and believable . . . memorable . . . and morally complex.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Mosley . . . a writer whose work transcends the thriller category and qualifies as serious literature.” —Time

“Mosley's skill in rendering the time and place of his novels brings to mind the inevitable comparison to genre masters such as Hammett and Chandler . . .” —San Francisco Chronicle