Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore: A Novel
*Starred Review* Sandra Peel is having a rough week. Her husband has died, accidentally electrocuted in the bathtub (while in the company of another woman); she discovers she’s broke (Theon, her husband, was seriously in debt, and apparently she now owes a lot of money to some guy who might just kill her if she can’t pay up); and she’s decided to quit her job, reunite with her young son, and change her life. That’s a lot of good material to work with, but, maybe just to give himself an extra challenge, Mosley makes Sandra, better known as Debbie Dare, a porn star—and, yes, there is some graphic language and imagery in the book because Mosley’s not the kind of writer who hides the truth behind a sanitized curtain. If this novel were a movie, and we were living in the early 1970s, Sandra would be played by Pam Grier: a beautiful, tough, smart woman who won’t take crap from anybody. This could be the best thing Mosley has written in years, a deeply affecting story of a woman whose determination to pull herself out of one life and into another is tested almost to its limits by things she can’t control—until she finds a way to control them.      HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Mosley’s work in noncrime genres has proved uneven over the last several years, but he’s back to the top of his game here. Expect plenty of attention for this daring and compelling novel. --David Pitt