Book Review

Fear of the Dark (2006)

EW's GRADE
B-

Details Release Date: Sep 19, 2006; Writer: Walter Mosley; Genres: Fiction, Mystery and Thriller; Publisher: Little Brown & Company

When his aptly named cousin Useless embroils him in extortion and murder, cowardly bookseller Paris Minton turns once again to Fearless Jones, ''the Lancelot of South L.A.''

Femme Fatale
Black goddess Angel Allmont entices white businessmen to their ruin.

Bottom Line
Another of Mosley's sharp portraits of mid-'50s ghetto life and racial tension, but Fearless is too good to be true — and the plot too slack to yield much suspense.

Originally posted Sep 15, 2006 Published in issue #898 Sep 22, 2006 Order article reprints

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