Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 10 November 2010
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While My Pretty One Sleeps
A story of domestic danger and mystery, set against the world of New York's fashion industry. The sudden disappearance of Ethel Lambston, a gossip writer known to many but loved by few, draws boutique-owner Neeve Kearny into a tangled drama in which she is already unknowingly involved.
Walter Mosley delivers at last the compelling master work everyone’s been waiting for—a novel so intriguing, so soulful, so unstoppably dramatic that it will rank among the classic mysteries of our time. At the height of the riots that cripple LA in the summer of 1965, a white man is pulled from his car by a mob and escapes into a nearby apartment building. Soon afterward, a red-headed woman known as Little Scarlet is found dead in that apartment building—and the fleeing man is the obvious suspect. The police ask Easy Rawlins to investigate.
Captain FracasseFormerly rich and powerful, left wandering like an uneasy ghost in the castle of his ancestors, with but one faithful old servant remaining to him of the numerous retinue of the olden times; one poor old dog, half starved, and gray with age, where used to be a pack of thirty hounds.
Cyteen (1988) is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel set in the writer's Alliance-Union universe. It also won the Locus Award for best SF novel. Genetic manipulation, murder, intrigue and politics are just part of the story of a young scientist in this substantial book. In a futuristic world of cybernetics, two young friends become trapped in an endless nightmare of suspicion, surveillance, programmable servants, a centuries-old ruling class, and an enigmatic woman who rules them all.
Doomsday Book is a 1992 SF novel which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and was shortlisted for other awards, placing it among the most-honored works of science fiction in recent history. It is an intelligent and satisfying blend of classic science fiction and historical reconstruction. The book draws upon the writer's understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit.
