Library Binding, Large Print (August 1st, 2016): $41. Walter Mosley's latest Easy Rawlins novel, ' Charcoal Joe ,' comes on the heels of the author winning the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America in April.Mosley takes readers into the worlds of everyone from psychopathic criminals to business magnates, along with the minor players such as con men, tipsters, career criminals and cops.” - Pittsburgh Post Gazette Product Details “Much like Raymond Chandler did in his portrait of Southern California for his fictional private eye Philip Marlowe, or Dashiell Hammett did with Sam Spade, Mr. “These memorable characters are strong, shrewd, purposeful and humorous.” - Los Angeles Sentinel But as ever, finds a way to rise above such circumstances” Walter Mosley’s indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new. Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review Read 406 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.
It's the seductive drawl and lowdown dirty laugh of Walter Mosley's mellow private eye, Easy Rawlins.” You ride shotgun for the trip.” - The Washington Post Joe tells Easy he will pay and pay well to see this young man exonerated, but seeing as how Seymour literally was found standing over the man’s dead body at his cabin home, and considering the racially charged motives seemingly behind the murder, that might prove to be a tall order.īetween his new company, a heart that should be broken but is not, a whole raft of new bad guys on his tail, and a bad odor that surrounds Charcoal Joe, Easy has his hands full, his horizons askew, and his life in shambles around his feet.“You don’t hop in the car with Easy Rawlins for the destination. Joe’s friend’s son, Seymour (young, bright, top of his class in physics at Stanford), has been arrested and charged with the murder of a white man from Redondo Beach. Doubleday, 26. Reluctantly, Easy agrees - he owes Mouse his life. Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery Walter Mosley. But, inevitably, a case gets in the way: Easy’s friend Mouse introduces him to Rufus Tyler, a very old man everyone calls Charcoal Joe. Charcoal Joe is a mythical figure in LA, a man who pulls all the strings but is known to very few.
And he’s taken the money he got from the Rose Gold case and, together with two partners, Saul Lynx and Tinsford “Whisper” Natly, has started a new detective agency. He’s ready-finally-to propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, and start a life together. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins finds his life in transition. Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. Walter Mosley’s indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve.
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