All I Did Was Shoot My Man (Leonid Mcgill Mystery 4)

All I Did Was Shoot My Man (Leonid Mcgill Mystery 4)

by WalterMosley (Author)

Synopsis

Seven years ago, Zella Grisham was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder, and grand theft. After two years of fruitless negotiations, Zella was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison, mainly because she refused to give up her accomplices in a $6.8 million heist from Rutgers Assurance Corp. But Zella had played no part in that heist. PI Leonid McGill had planted the evidence. All Zella had done was shoot her man, her cheating husband Harry Tangelo, when she'd caught him in bed with her best friend. That was a long time ago, and McGill has regrets. So he hires a hotshot attorney to set her free. Zella's big regret is that she tried to kill Tangelo. McGill agrees to track him down but the trail leads back to Rutgers Assurance, and the man who paid McGill to plant the evidence is found dead. As Zella is hounded and an attempt is made on McGill's life, the detective realises the case is more complicated than he had ever imagined - but can he live long enough to sort it out?

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Edition: Hardback
Publisher: W&N
Published: 08 Mar 2012

ISBN 10: 0297866761
ISBN 13: 9780297866763
Book Overview: An electric new novel starring PI Leonid McGill from the imitable Walter Mosley, creator of the Easy Rawlins series

Media Reviews
Leonid McGill is defiantly old school. He uses his big heart and a lifetime of boxing skills to save a woman from the grasp of mobsters desperate to reclaim the money she stole from them. Thing is, she didn't. McGill framed her SUNDAY EXPRESS Like all Mosley's work 'All I Did...' is written with rhythm and an utterly compelling veracity, as PI McGill reopens an old case in which he was implicated in some less than legal activities. There is real depth to Mosley's characters and a clarity of thought that is refreshing in a sea of overwritten contemporaries -- Doug Johnstone THE BIG ISSUE This follows in the tradition of Chester Himes... If you like your crime snappy, hard-boiled and razor-edged, Walter Mosley is for you -- Victoria Clark THE LADY Everything about Walter Mosley's new book is a combination of exquisite elegance and street toughness, from the title - All I Did Was Shoot My Man - to the understated heartbreak of the last line -- Mat Coward MORNING STAR a decidedly unconventional private eye novel... Parallels can be drawn with John Banville's Freddie Montgomery or Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley... Elegant, laconic, complex and thought-provoking, All I Did Was Shoot My Man is one of the most intriguing crime fiction novels of the year so far IRISH INDEPENDENT
Author Bio
Walter Mosley, recipient of the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, is the author of 36 books, among them the bestselling Easy Rawlins mystery series including A LITTLE YELLOW DOG and DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS. His books have been translated into twenty-one languages and have sold more than three million copies to date. He lives in New York.