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The 4th century BC and the youth of Alexander the Great are marvellously reimagined in Lyon's justifiably garlanded novel.

The Golden Mean, by Annabel Lyon (Atlantic, £14.99) The decades of complicity that follow Charlotte's death unfold with forceful drama, marred only by a tendency towards Oirish sentimentality.

Born in Los Angeles, he lives in New York.Similarly opposed are their contrasting voices – bitter, sadistic Harriet, a reluctant mother and obsessive lepidopterist, and the deceptively rambling, maternal but mother-to-none Maddie. About the Author Walter Mosley is one of Americas most celebrated and beloved writers, and is the author of the Easy Rawlins novels as well as the new Leonid McGill series. Though Leonid knows better than to believe every word, this isnt a job he can afford to turn away, even as he senses that sorting out the womans crooked tale might bring him straight to deaths door. But she says she fears for her life and needs Leonids help. So how can he say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash? Shes an artist who has escaped from poverty via marriage to a rich collector who keeps her on a stipend. Meanwhile, his personal life is growing more complicated, with his stepson mysteriously dropping out of school, a friend getting diagnosed with cancer, and his unfaithful wife taking another new lover. Lately, Leonid McGill is getting job offers only from the criminals hes worked so hard to leave behind. The economy has hit the private investigator business hard, even for the detective designated as a more than worthy successor to Philip Marlowe ( The Boston Globe ). So how can McGill say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash? Book Synopsis African-American noir is at its finest in this gripping crime novel from Walter Mosleys New York Times bestselling series, in which a strange young woman hires Detective Leonid McGill to protect her from her allegedly murderous husband.

The economy has hit the private-investigator business hard. About the Book Leonid McGill is back, in the third-and most enthralling and ambitious-installment in Mosleys latest New York Times-bestselling series.