Book Review: Down The River Unto The Sea

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This is my book review of Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley.

Book Summary:

Joe King Oliver was a true-blue cop for the NYPD until he was framed for sexual assault by an enemy within the department. Now, a decade has passed since he was released from Riker’s.

Ten years later, he is a private detective with the help of his 17-year-old daughter. The events of a decade earlier, the brutality he suffered, changed him so much that he lives a solitary life with no relationship but that of his beloved daughter.

Then he receives a letter from his accuser confessing that she was paid to frame him years ago. So Joe King Oliver decides he’s going to find out who wanted him gone from the force, and why. He never knew who had hired her in the first place.

At the same time, he also takes on the case of a black journalist. accused of killing two police officers. They were using their badges to traffic in all sorts of lurid crimes.

He is joined by Melquarth Frost, an unlikely partner, a brilliant man who is a skilled person with antisocial personality disorder. He’s a person who ends up helping him when others would not.

To solve the two crimes, he has no way to discern who to trust. So he trusts no one.

About the Author:

 

Walter Mosley is one of the most versatile and admired writers in America today. He is the author of more than 43 critically acclaimed books. This includes the major bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins.

His work has been translated into 23 languages and includes literary fiction, science fiction, political monographs, and a young adult novel.

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel of the Year, bestselling author Walter Mosley is back with a whole new character to love.