{"id":42923,"date":"2026-09-26T12:35:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42923"},"modified":"2026-09-26T12:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:40:38","slug":"hanging-and-burning-a-king-oliver-novel-by-walter-mosley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42923","title":{"rendered":"HANGING AND BURNING: A KING OLIVER NOVEL by Walter Mosley!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/link.amazon\/B0flrNvEY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z092626hangingburning.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"776\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A new Walter Mosley tale is always welcome.\u00a0 We have one coming on October 20th when <a href=\"https:\/\/link.amazon\/B0flrNvEY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HANGING AND BURNING: A KING OLIVER NOVEL<\/a> drops.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the scoop&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>A dying gangster&#8217;s plea sends Joe King Oliver on a quest for a missing woman across America&#8217;s coasts \u2015 unraveling a dark and violent family history along the way\u2015in this engrossing new novel from one of the most celebrated and acclaimed crime writers at work today.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joe King Oliver is the big man you call to solve the most delicate and dangerous of problems. Fresh off unraveling the mystery of his own parents\u2019 fates, King finds himself accepting (again at his grandmother\u2019s request) a case from Arman Babylon, a powerful Los Angeles gangster now dying from cancer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Babylon\u2019s granddaughter, Twyla Mann, has been missing for years, and he\u2019s desperate to find her before he passes. The search pulls King into the Babylons\u2019 stained past and the cold case of Dalia Shorts, a torch singer who vanished without a trace and whom Arman was once suspected of killing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As King follows her trail from L.A. to New York and back, he\u2019ll realize nothing is what it seems as he uncovers a pattern of violence that has targeted the women around Babylon for decades. How much will King be willing to risk to finally set things right?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.amazon\/B0flrNvEY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pre-orders<\/a> are available now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Walter Mosley tale is always welcome.\u00a0 We have one coming on October 20th when HANGING AND BURNING: A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-crime"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42923","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=42923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42924,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42923\/revisions\/42924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}