Author: Walter Mosley, Hanging and Burning

In the latest addition to the inimitable Walter Mosley’s Joe King Oliver series, Hanging and Burning, King finds himself accepting (again at his grandmother’s request) a case from Arman Babylon, a powerful Los Angeles gangster now dying from cancer. Babylon’s granddaughter, Twyla Mann, has been missing for years, and he’s desperate to find her before he passes. The search pulls King into the Babylons’ stained past and the cold case of Dalia Shorts, a torch singer who vanished without a trace and whom Arman was once suspected of killing. As King follows her trail from L.A. to New York and back, he’ll realize nothing is what it seems as he uncovers a pattern of violence that has targeted the women around Babylon for decades. How much will King be willing to risk to finally set things right? Walter Mosley will be joined in conversation with Carvell Wallace. Doors at 6:00 p.m. Book sales and signing follow the event, courtesy of Borderlands Books. Pre-registration is required for this after-hours Library event. Co-presented with Litquake.