Known to Evil

Known to Evil is the fourth Walter Mosley novel that I’ve reviewed this year, so you know that I like his writing. This is the second book in his Leonid McGill series of mysteries, and for the first time, I find myself a bit disappointed. McGill is a semi-reformed Mafia hit man, and as he works to solve the murder of Wanda Soa and the disappearance of Tara Lear, it ends up as a novel about a group of sociopaths, and McGill looks good in comparison to the others.

I’ll put this one in the category of airplane books: good enough to entertain you on a cross country flight, but not so riveting that it would either keep you from a nap or would not bother you if you left it on the plane, unfinished. There’s more Mosley in my future, but not Leonid McGill.