When the Thrill Is Gone: A Leonid McGill Mystery by Walter Mosley

Author:Walter Mosley [Mosley, Walter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Urban, Mystery & Detective, General, African American
ISBN: 9780451235657
Google: GWfvFkdqmNYC
Amazon: 0451235657
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011-03-08T19:42:58+00:00

I LIKE WALKING the nighttime streets of Manhattan. Ever since I was an adolescent on the run from the juvenile and foster-care bureaucracies, I found the darkness and electric light soothing. I feel in control when I see bright neon and deep shadows. This relaxation allows me to think more deeply about the twisted nature of other men and myself.

No one knew where Chrystal was; not her husband, her living sibling, or her parents. She was, most probably, in trouble—big trouble. And the only facts I had to go on were lies: Shawna pretending to be Chrystal, some drawling cowboy acting as if he were a nerdy billionaire; the rich man giving me money and then crying extortion.

There were three dead women: two married to Cyril Tyler and one who had merely pretended to be his wife. I had been paid twenty-two thousand dollars so far and had yet to figure out what task it was I was supposed to accomplish.

I grinned a dark smile on a darker street and once again took out my cell phone to make a call.

“Hello?”

“Hey, baby, what’s up?”

“I came home to a house full of children who say that they’re brothers and sisters but look like a family of cousins,” Aura said.

“I guess you could say that their mother got around.”

“I see.”

“Somebody murdered her, and in the same room where the children were sleeping.”

“My God.”

“I’m sorry to put them with you but I didn’t know what else to do.”

“That’s because you did the right thing,” she said kindly. “They can stay here as long as you need.”

“Can I do the same?”

“No.”

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