1961: For most black Americans, these were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles’s mean streets were never meaner…or more deadly. Ordinarily, Easy would have thrown the two bills in the sleazy shamus’ face – the white man who wanted him to find the notorious Black Betty, an ebony siren whose talent for all things rich and male took her from Houston’s Fifth Ward to Beverly Hills. There was too much Easy wasn’t being told, but he couldn’t resist the prospect of seeing Betty again, even if it killed him . . .
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This is classic noir territory, filled with unintentional heroes with the best intentions and dangerous dames... A class act
Easy Rawlins comes back from the dead, inspiring his creator to write his best novel for years
Simply the best crime writer around today. One of the joys of Mosley's writing is the ease that characterises every aspect of it... The characters live and breathe in a way that is utterly convincing and absorbing
There are few writers within the crime genre who recreate time and place with Mosley's effortless exactness, even fewer who can replicate his masterfully sustained sense of danger
