From a Washington Post book review by Tracy Clark headlined “Walter Mosley’s new mystery reminds us why he’s a master of noir”:

When a PI novel is written noir and gritty, in the style of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Chester Himes, but without the tropes that have become cliched, you can bet the author is Walter Mosley. His new book, “Every Man a King,” reminds us why he is a master of the genre.