Walter Mosley - Fear of the Dark (2006)
Reviewed by David J. Montgomery
For sixteen years now, Walter Mosley has been producing some of the finest mystery novels the genre has ever seen. That streak continues with his latest, another top-notch novel from one of literature’s most gifted observers of race, crime and life on the rough side of America’s streets.
Fear of the Dark is the third book to feature mild-mannered bookstore owner Paris Minton, and once again this gentle man is taking part in an adventure against his will, with his stalwart friend Fearless Jones along for the ride.
Paris is a fascinating hero for a crime novel, as he’s neither brave nor ambitious, nor especially honest. He wants nothing more than to be left alone among his beloved books, but there’s no way that the shadier residents of L.A.’s South Central are going to let that happen.
The stories featuring Paris Minton are so good that they have begun to outshine even Mosley’s superb series featuring detective Easy Rawlins -- and that’s high praise indeed.
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