All I Did Was Shoot My Man

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