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Walter Mosley's infamous detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new mystery to solve on the sun-soaked streets of Southern California.
Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator turned hard-boiled detective always willing to do what it takes to get things done in the racially charged, dark underbelly of Los Angeles.
But when Easy is approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran—a young white man who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man—he knows he shouldn't take the case.
Though he sees nothing but trouble in the brooding ex-soldier's eyes, Easy, a vet himself, feels a kinship form between them. Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and into sex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else.
Set against the social and political upheaval of the late 1960s, Blood Grove is ultimately a story about survival, not only of the body but also the soul.
Widely hailed as "incomparable" (Chicago Tribune) and "dazzling" (Tampa Bay Times), Walter Mosley proves that he's at the top of his game in this bold return to the endlessly entertaining series that has kept fans on their toes for years.
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Easy Rawlins Series
A Little Yellow Dog
By: Walter Mosley
Narrated by: Howard Weinberger
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
It's 1963. Easy Rawlins has given up the street life and is now the supervising custodian of Sojourner Truth High School in Watts. He gets up early and goes off to work. He wears nice clothes and puts all his energy and love into his job and his adopted children. He likes his new life.
But his life changes when Easy comes in early one morning to... Read more »
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Bad Boy Brawly Brown
By: Walter Mosley
Narrated by: M. E. Willis
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The long-anticipated sixth installment of the Easy Rawlins Mystery Series
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 enough trouble to ask for Easy's help, he finds he... Read more »
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Six Easy Pieces
By: Walter Mosley
Narrated by: M. E. Willis
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
New Easy Rawlins mysteries--original short stories from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning mystery author. As Carolyn See said in The Washington Post Book World: "God bless the day that Walter Mosley created Easy Rawlins!"
This handsome collection contains six interconnected stories. Fans can now add these original stories in Six... Read more »
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Little Scarlet
By: Walter Mosley
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
An irresistible story of love and death, this Easy Rawlins mystery takes place during the devastating 1965 Watts riots. Easy's hunt for a killer reveals a new city emerging from the ashes -- and a new life for Easy and his friends. Read more »
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Cinnamon Kiss
By: Walter Mosley
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time. And his friend Mouse tells him it's a cinch.
Then another friend, Saul Lynx, offers a job that... Read more »
Blonde Faith
By: Walter Mosley
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Easy Rawlins, L.A.'s most reluctant detective, comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of his friend Chrismas Black, left on his doorstep. Easy knows that this could only mean that the ex-marine Black is probably dead, or will be soon. Easter's appearance is only the beginning, as Easy is immersed in a sea of problems. The love of his... Read more »
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Blonde Faith
By: Walter Mosley
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Blonde Faith: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
Easy Rawlins, L.A.'s most reluctant detective, comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of his friend, Christmas Black left on his doorstep. Easy knows that this could only mean that the ex-marine Black is probably dead, or... Read more »
Rose Gold
By: Walter Mosley
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Rose Gold is two colors, one woman, and a big headache.
In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth, has kidnapped Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer, from her dorm... Read more »
Charcoal Joe
By: Walter Mosley
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Walter Mosley’s indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve.
Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins finds his life in transition. He’s ready—finally—to propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, and start a life together. And... Read more »
Gone Fishin' - Abridged
By: Walter Mosley
Narrated by: Paul Winfield
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the beginning, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and Raymond "Mouse" Alexander were merely two young men hitting the road. In a "borrowed" 1936 Ford, they head for Pariah, Texas on a mission to retrieve money from Mouse's stepfather so he can marry his EttaMae.
But on their steamy bayou excursion, Mouse chooses murder as a way out, while Easy's past... Read more »
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Blood Grove
By: Walter Mosley
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Walter Mosley's infamous detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new mystery to solve on the sun-soaked streets of Southern California.
Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator turned hard-boiled detective always willing to do what it takes to get things done in the racially charged, dark underbelly of Los... Read more »