{"id":21148,"date":"2026-10-23T14:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T14:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=21148"},"modified":"2026-10-23T14:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T14:54:13","slug":"hanging-burning-a-king-oliver-novel-by-walter-mosley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/hanging-burning-a-king-oliver-novel-by-walter-mosley\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging & Burning: A King Oliver Novel by Walter Mosley"},"content":{"rendered":"

c.2026, Little, Brown\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $30.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 320 pages<\/em><\/p>\n

By Terri Schlichenmeyer<\/em><\/p>\n

The Truth Contributor<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been awhile.<\/p>\n

Awhile since you saw that smile, since you looked into your beloved\u2019s eyes and knew that the next few minutes or days or weeks would be among the best of your life. It\u2019s been too long, in fact, since you were together, and you miss that. But in the new novel Hanging & Burning<\/em> by Walter Mosley,<\/strong> beware: the next reunion could be deadly.<\/p>\n

Joe \u201cKing\u201d Oliver wouldn\u2019t have given Arman Babylon the time of day, were it not for Joe\u2019s Grandma Brenda.<\/p>\n

It was she who\u2019d vouched for the ailing man, a neighbor in a nearby room at the pricey private Los Angeles hospital where she was getting cancer treatment. Arman had confided in Brenda that he\u2019d been looking for his granddaughter, Twyla, and Grandma B said that Joe, a former New York City cop, would find the girl.<\/p>\n

Problem was, Twyla Mann didn\u2019t want to be found. She had a couple of aliases and she moved here and there around New York City pretty often. This intrigued Joe, as did the fact that Arman gave him only the briefest of clues, claiming that Twyla\u2019s mother was not really her mother but Arman was still Twyla\u2019s kin. Obviously, the old man was holding something back, but he did hint that he was involved with organized crime on both coasts.<\/p>\n

An internet search led Joe to even more information, none of it good.<\/p>\n

Arman wasn\u2019t exactly who he said he was \u2013 and neither was Twyla or her supposed mother or, for that matter, the woman who ran a nightclub that had distant ties to Arman\u2019s past. The man who owned the club apparently had some beef with Joe from way back, and a woman who tied them all together was presumed dead.<\/p>\n

Finding Twyla Mann before her grandfather died should\u2019ve been an easy case. Joe knew that it shouldn\u2019t have taken long to solve, and it shouldn\u2019t have involved two last-century murders. It definitely should not have plunged Joe Oliver\u2019s life into danger\u2026<\/p>\n

So, you\u2019re flipping through the TV, looking for something to watch, and you come across an old 1940\u2019s mobster movie. You know how easy it is to get caught up in it, right? Well, reading Hanging & Burning<\/em> is a lot like that.<\/p>\n

Though this novel is set in modern times with modern tools and weapons, you can absolutely picture the criminals here as the mobsters author Walter Mosley portrays them. This old-new mix adds gravel to the tale, with two cities full of witnesses and hideouts, a ruthless pair of mercenaries, and an appealing sense of dark alleys and cement shoes. You\u2019ll love Joe Oliver for his smarts, and he\u2019ll make you chuckle sometimes. But don\u2019t get to complacent; soon enough, this novel grabs you, throws you in the trunk of a fancy car, and races, screaming, to a stunning conclusion.<\/p>\n

If you love a good mystery-thriller, Hanging & Burning<\/em> \u2013 so-titled after a Yiddish saying \u2013 will make you very happy. Look for it; you\u2019ll be glad to take awhile.<\/p>\n

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c.2026, Little, Brown\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $30.00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 320 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor It\u2019s been awhile. Awhile since you saw that smile, since you looked into your beloved\u2019s eyes and knew that the next few minutes or days or weeks would be among the best of your life. It\u2019s been too long, in fact, since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[371],"class_list":["post-21148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book_review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21150,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21148\/revisions\/21150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21148"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=21148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}