{"id":16180,"date":"2016-08-24T04:22:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T08:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16180"},"modified":"2020-08-01T16:03:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T20:03:21","slug":"diablerie-by-walter-mosley-2007-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16180","title":{"rendered":"Diablerie by Walter Mosley (2007) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z082416zview_diablerie_waltermosley.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"749\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1596913975?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=1596913975\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Diablerie<\/span> by Walter Mosley<\/strong><\/a> (2008)<\/p>\n<p>Hardcover: 192 pages<br \/>\nPublisher: Bloomsbury USA<\/p>\n<p>First sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The apartment reeked from the acrid odor of roaches &#8211; a whole colony, tens of thousands of them, seething and unseen in the walls and under the dull, splintery floorboards of the vacant apartment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Overview:&nbsp; Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ben Dibbuk is a middle aged computer programmer with a successful wife and a daughter headed to college. &nbsp;Life should be great&#8230; but it&#8217;s not. &nbsp;His wife has become distant and may have a lover which would only be fair since Ben has a young mistress. &nbsp;Ben knows that he&#8217;s at a crossroads and needs to sort things out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That becomes more complicated when a woman from his past approaches him with the knowledge that years ago he killed a man in a drunken stupor. &nbsp;Ben is a recovering alcoholic and remembers much of what the woman tells him but not the murder. &nbsp;Did he kill a man? &nbsp;Why is the woman approaching him now? &nbsp;And why is his wife having him investigated?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Craig says: While Mosley is probably incapable of writing a bad book, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Diablerie<\/span> isn&#8217;t in the same league as his Easy Rawlins novels. &nbsp;I enjoyed the story but didn&#8217;t hate to see it end. &nbsp;Be aware that this is one of Mosley&#8217;s &#8220;erotic&#8221; novels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\">&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diablerie by Walter Mosley (2008) Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA First sentence&#8230; The apartment reeked from the acrid odor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52,51,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-crime","category-z-view","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24055,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16180\/revisions\/24055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}