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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In this thrilling mystery, Easy Rawlins takes a job to find a missing attorney and his beautiful assistant—and faces danger around every corner.
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 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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
3) Blonde faith
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 life is marrying another man and his friend Mouse is wanted for the murder of a father of twelve. As he's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Walter Mosley's indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve. Picking up where Rose Gold left off in LA in the late 1960s, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins finds his life in transition. He's ready to finally propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, and start a life together. And he's taken the money he got from the Rose Gold case and has, together with two partners, started a new detective agency. But, inevitably,...
7) Black Betty
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 4
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
8) Blood grove
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, 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.
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 6
Publisher
distributed by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Washington Square Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Overview: The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: " I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But Easy turns them down. He's married now, a father - and his detective days are over. Then a white college coed dies the same brutal death,...
12) Rubia peligrosa
Author
Publisher
RBA Libros
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
Español
Description
1967. Dos de los hombres m̀s peligrosos de Los ℓngeles han desaparecido y el detective Easy Rawlins tiene que encontrarlos antes de que se produzca un bąo de sangre. El primero es su amigo Mouse, que ha sido acusado de asesinar a un padre de familia. El segundo es un veterano de Vietnam que el gobierno ha convertido en una m̀quina de matar y que ha dejado a su hija adoptiva al cuidado de Easy. Aunque est̀ pasando por un infierno personal tras...
Author
Series
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton, FBI, offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First American Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when the murders begin.
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