Leonid McGill

Leonid McGill is a central figure in Walter Mosley’s gritty and atmospheric West Angeles series, a blend of crime fiction and character study. The books explore the lives of Los Angeles’s marginalized figures – often Black men – through a deliberately slow-paced, almost melancholic tone, examining themes of race, identity, and the lingering effects of poverty and crime. McGill’s investigations are less about solving immediate crimes and more about unraveling the complex histories and damaged relationships of those around him.