I’m reading Walter Mosley for the first time in my life. Don’t know why it took so long. I just finished “Devil in a Blue Dress,” and now I’m reading “Black Betty.” These are both Easy Rawlins mysteries and I like them. My standard for mysteries these days is Elmore Leonard, and Mosley does not have near the prose style of Leonard, an electric style — it’s like putting your hand on the third rail.

But Mosley is a more efficient plot maker than Leonard, and his narrator in these books, Easy Rawlins, is more complex and more observant that Leonard’s characters.

So, these writers are different. And they’re both wonderful.

Have you read Mosley? Which books would you recommend to the Cohn Zohn?

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