When the Thrill Is Gone: A Leonid McGill Mystery

Walter Mosley

Mar 2011 · Leonid mcgill mystery Book 3 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

African-American noir is at its finest in this gripping crime novel from Walter Mosley’s New York Times bestselling series, in which a strange young woman hires Detective Leonid McGill to protect her from her allegedly murderous husband.

The economy has hit the private investigator business hard, even for the detective designated as “a more than worthy successor to Philip Marlowe” (The Boston Globe). Lately, Leonid McGill is getting job offers only from the criminals he’s worked so hard to leave behind. Meanwhile, his personal life is growing more complicated, with his stepson mysteriously dropping out of school, a friend getting diagnosed with cancer, and his unfaithful wife taking another new lover.
 
So how can he say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash? She’s an artist who has escaped from poverty via marriage to a rich collector who keeps her on a stipend. But she says she fears for her life and needs Leonid’s help. Though Leonid knows better than to believe every word, this isn’t a job he can afford to turn away, even as he senses that sorting out the woman’s crooked tale might bring him straight to death’s door.

Ratings and reviews

Mosley's Leonid McGill is a captivating character. Sort of a 21st Century John Shaft, complete with age & experience. The stories are complex, but eventually satisfying.

Good story but the plot becomes confusing with all the characters changing roles and the ending seemed vague and off topic

About your dad, always there's another story

About the author

Walter Mosley is one of America's most celebrated and beloved writers, and is the author of the Easy Rawlins novels as well as the new Leonid McGill series. Born in Los Angeles, he lives in New York.