Walter Mosley

 New York Times best-selling crime novelist Walter Mosley will be at Murder by the Book for a lunchtime reading. The author of ten thrillers staring Easy Rawlings, Mosley’s newest novel, Blonde Faith, hit store shelves this week. Easy Rawlings breaks the tragic loner mold of sleuths — instead he’s a man surrounded by friends (two of whom are missing), ex- and new lovers and a host of other characters. The real mystery for Blonde Faith may be how Rawlings reconciles a personal life filled with fragile, fractured relationships with a professional life of mayhem and murder. Mosley has written more than 20 books, one of which was made into the Denzel Washington film Devil in the Blue Dress. 1 p.m. 2342 Bissonnet. For information, call 713-524-8597 or visit www.murderbooks.com. Free.
Wed., Oct. 17, 1 p.m., 2007