When the Thrill is Gone

Resumen del libro

The economy has hit the PI business hard, and Leonid McGill is getting job offers only from the criminals he's worked so hard to leave behind. So how can he say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash? She's an artist, she tells him, who's escaped poverty via marriage to a rich collector. A rich collector with two ex-wives whose deaths are shrouded in mystery. She says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid's help. Though Leonid knows better, this isn't a job he can afford to turn away. Meanwhile, Leonid's personal life grows ever more chequered: his favourite stepson, Twill, drops out of school for mysteriously lucrative pursuits; his wife takes a new lover, infuriating the old one and endangering the whole family; and Leonid's girlfriend, Aura, is back but intent on some serious conversations... Is the client at his door who she seems and - if his family's misadventures don't kill him first - will sorting out the woman's crooked tale bring Leonid straight to death's door?

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p WALTER MOSLEY (Los Ángeles, 1952). Autor estadounidense mundialmente conocido por sus novelas policiacas, aunque también ha cultivado otros géneros, como la ciencia ficción, el relato erótico o el ensayo. Sus grandes dotes como narrador y su capacidad para plantear nuevas perspectivas dentro del género criminal clásico han desembocado en diversas series novelísticas, la más famosa de las cuales es la protagonizada por el atípico investigador Easy Rawlins, inaugurada con x{0026}lt;i El demonio vestido de azulx{0026}lt;/i .x{0026}lt;/p Desde la publicación de sus primeras novelas, Mosley ha sido aplaudido en todo el mundo y ha obtenido numerosos reconocimientos, entre los que destacan el Grand Master concedido en 2016 por la Mystery Writers of America y los dos galardones conseguidos por x{0026}lt;i Traiciónx{0026}lt;/i : el Premio RBA de Novela Policiaca de 2018 y el Edgar Award de 2019 a la mejor novela.