Marilyn StasioWhile nowhere near as charming as Rawlins, McGill is easy to like, given the character-building temptations that come his way as he tries to be an honest investigator and a good family man…All things considered, McGill is someone you can definitely settle down with.
—The New York Times
Anna MundowAfter Easy Rawlins and Paris Minton, Mosley's best-known creations, McGill is a welcome conundrum. A detective in the classic noir style—cynical, romantic, doomed—who exists not in the 1940s but in today's New York City…We follow eagerly, seduced by Mosley's laconic style and by a newly arrived hero who seems to have been around forever.
—The Washington Post
Publishers WeeklyMosley leaves behind the Los Angeles setting of his Easy Rawlins and Fearless Jones series (Devil in a Blue Dress, etc.
