Mystery writer gets three-book deal

Farewell, Easy Rawlins. Hello, Leonid McGill.

Mystery writer Walter Mosley has agreed to write three novels for Riverhead Books, two of which will feature McGill, a sleuth based in New York City. Mosley first used him in the short story “Karma.”

Mosley, 55, is best known for “Devil in the Blue Dress,” “Black Betty” and other novels in his Rawlins series.

His last book featuring the Los Angeles private eye, “Blonde Faith,” was published this fall by Little, Brown and Co..

Honoring his ‘Memory’

Brandon Sanderson, author of the “Mistborn” series, will finish fellow fantasy writer Robert Jordan’s final novel.

Jordan, whose real name was James Oliver Rigney Jr., died from a blood disease in September, while he was working on the 12th book in his “Wheel of Time” fantasy series.

More than 44 million books in the “Wheel of Time” series have been sold worldwide, according to publisher Tor Books. The final book is titled “A Memory of Light.”

“To me, Robert Jordan is still kind of a mythological figure,” Sanderson says. “I would have done this with no credit and no payment, to be perfectly honest.”

Sanderson, whose first novel, “Elantris,” was published in 2005, has four books in print.