for an Edgar Award. It was also made into a major motion picture in Japan. His work has also appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, Purple, and Fence, among other publications.
[The Page 69 Test: The Serialist; The Page 69 Test: Mystery Girl; The Page 69 Test: White Tiger on Snow Mountain; Writers Read: David Gordon (August 2019); The Page 69 Test: The Hard Stuff; Q&A with David Gordon; The Page 69 Test: The Wild Life]
Gordon's new novel is Behind Sunset.
At The Strand Magazine he tagged twelve favorite Los Angeles books. One title on the list:
Devil in a Blue Dress – Walter MosleyRead about the other books on Gordon's list.
With this, the first case of Easy Rawlins, Mosely introduces an archetypal detective, and kicks off a retelling of post-war LA history as experienced by black Americans, refreshing and reimagining classic crime along the way.
Devil in a Blue Dress is among Gabino Iglesias's fifty best mysteries of all time, Zach Vasquez's nine novels that explore secrecy & deception in racial identity, Peter Colt's eight books featuring unlikely detectives, E.G. Scott's ten best pairs of frenemies in fiction, Alex Segura's nine top jazz-infused crime novels, Lori Roy's five top morality-driven thrillers, and Al Roker's six favorite crime novels.
Raymond “Mouse” Alexander, from Mosley’s Easy Rawlins series, made The A.V. Club's list of “13 sidekicks who are cooler than their heroes.”
--Marshal Zeringue
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