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Author
Series
Fearless Jones novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Knowing a missing man to be innocent of the murder charge levied against him, Paris Minton hires former sheriff Jefferson Hill to investigate, but when the sheriff goes missing as well, Minton enlists Fearless Jones for the case.
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the road in a "borrowed" '36 Ford, nineteen-year-old Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and his companion, Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, are on a perilous odyssey that takes them from Houston to a mysterious bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death. Their destination is desolate Pariah, Texas - Mouse's home once, and still home to his hated stepfather. Encountering violent and unexpected threats, Easy and Mouse forge bonds that will link them in the decades...
3) Blonde faith
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 11
Language
English
Description
Fearing his friend, Christmas Black, has met his demise when the ex-Marine's daughter is left on his doorstep, reluctant L.A. detective Easy Rawlins finds the challenges of caring for a child further complicated by another friend's murder accusation.
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1956 Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins, private eye, is called on by the police when a serial killer, after killing three black bar girls with little attention, kills a white stripper who turns out to be the daughter of a politically powerful L.A. prosecutor.
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
300 p.
Language
English
7) Black Betty
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 4
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
255 pages
Language
English
Author
Series
Fearless Jones novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this thrilling 1950s noir, when a beautiful woman comes into Paris Minton’s life, everything starts falling apart—leaving him no choice but to ask Fearless Jones for help.
Mosley returns to mysteries at last with his most engaging hero since Easy Rawlins. When Paris Minton meets a beautiful new woman, before he knows it he has been beaten up, slept with, shot at, robbed, and his bookstore burned to the ground. He's...
Mosley returns to mysteries at last with his most engaging hero since Easy Rawlins. When Paris Minton meets a beautiful new woman, before he knows it he has been beaten up, slept with, shot at, robbed, and his bookstore burned to the ground. He's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories - heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved,...
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Washington Square Press/Atria
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
30th anniversary edition, Washington Square Press/Atria paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 226 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Easy Rawlins, a tough World War II veteran and detective, is hired by a financier and gangster to locate Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant boardrooms to the raucous jazz joints of late 1940s Los Angeles.
12) Cinnamon kiss
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
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's a cinch.
Then...
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Zella Grisham is accused of both shooting her boyfriend and stealing more than six million dollars from the Rutgers Assurance Corp., Leonid McGill investigates, while his own family life begins to unravel around him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Life for Easy Rawlins is surprisingly... easy. He's living off the proceeds of his last case, trying to keep out of trouble. Of course it's not going to last. Because Easy's old friend Mouse knocks on his door. Mouse is one of the deadliest men in America. And Mouse wants a small favor. He wants Easy to help a man he says is wrongly imprisoned, a friend of Charcoal Joe. Charcoal Joe is a mythical figure in the LA underworld - he pulls all the strings...
15) A red death
Author
Series
Publisher
Washington Square Press/Atria
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First Washington Square Press/Atria paperback edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 21 cm.
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."--Provided by...
16) 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."--Publisher description.
1969. Easy Rawlins, the Black private...
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