Easy Rawlins Mysteries (eBook)
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- Walter Mosley is one of the most acclaimed writers at work today, an original thinker and an important public figure. His new work will command widespread attention.- Easy Rawlins is "the best series detective around" ("Entertainment Weekly).- We last saw Easy in "Bad Boy Brawly Brown, which appeared on the "New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and "USA Today bestseller lists.- Mosley's most recent mystery, "Fear Itself, garnered glowing reviews in the "Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and "New York Times just a few weeks after publication.
Easy Rawlins is out of the investigation business and as far away from crime as a black man can be in 1960s Los Angeles. But living around desperate men means life gets complicated sometimes. When an old friend gets in trouble to ask for Easy?s help, he finds he can?t refuse. Young Brawly Brown has traded in his family for The Clan of the First Men, a group rejecting white leadership and laws. Brown?s mom asks Easy to make sure her baby?s OK, and Easy promises to find him. His first day on the case, Easy comes face-to-face with a corpse, and vefore he knows it he is a murder suspect and in the middle of a police raid. Brawly Brown is clearly the kind of trouble most folks try to avoid. It takes everything Easy has just to stay alive as he explores a world filled with betrayals and predators like he never imagined. Bad Boy Brawly Brown is the masterful crime novel that Walter Mosley?s legions of fans have been waiting for. This book marks the return of a master at the top of his form.