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1) Blood grove
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Pub. Date
2021.
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1969. Easy Rawlins, the Black private detective whose small agency finally has its own office, gets a visit from a white Vietnam veteran. The young man claims he and his lover were attacked in a citrus grove at the city's outskirts. He may have killed a man, and the woman and his dog are now missing. Inclined to turn down what sounds like nothing but trouble, Easy takes the case when he realizes how damaged the young vet is from his war experiences....
2) Blonde faith
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Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 11
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Description
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 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 12. As he's searching...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
432 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"When Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer, is kidnapped from her dorm at UC Santa Barbara with demands to be met or "Rose Gold" will die, the LAPD turns to Easy Rawlins to resolve the dangerous standoff"--
4) Charcoal Joe
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Pub. Date
2016
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"Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve. Charcoal Joe has asked Easy to help clear Joe's son, who was found standing over a white man's dead body in his cabin home"--
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Pub. Date
2013
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p. cm.
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Surviving a near-fatal car wreck and cruising the streets of the Sunset Strip during the heyday of the late 1960s, Easy Rawlins investigates the disappearance of a young African-American, a case that is complicated by Rawlins's changing perspectives.
Author
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Pub. Date
2002.
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309 pages ; 21 cm
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,...
9) Gone fishin'
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 21 cm
Description
A novel exploring the early years of Easy Rawlins and Mouse Alexander, protagonists in a current black PI series. The setting is Texas, the time the 1930s, and the two embark on a car ride which will engulf them in the bayou world of voodoo, sex and murder.
10) Cinnamon kiss
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 10
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Description
It's 1966, and Easy Rawlins is desperate for cash to pay for his daughter's much-needed medical treatment. Easy gets a gig working for a legendary private eye on a missing person case. Soon, Easy's search uncovers a shocking crime in Mosley's latest sizzling "New York Times" bestseller.
11) Little green
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Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
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8 sound discs (10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Easy Rawlins is back (almost literally from the dead after the car wreck that ended Blonde Faith, his last outing) and cruising the hippified streets of the Sunset Strip circa 1967, in search of a young black man who has gone missing and maybe of his own rebirth.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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308 pages ; 25 cm
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When a boxer-turned-revolutionary kidnaps the daughter of a weapons manufacturer and threatens to publicly execute her in exchange for a lucrative ransom, Easy Rawlins is tapped by the LAPD to make a difficult border crossing to navigate an ensuing standoff.
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is a decorated war hero who returns home to work as a private eye. His job of finding a missing socialite puts him between the white power elite and the vibrant black commumnity of Central Avenue. As soon as Easy and his trigger-happy friend Mouse find Daphne Monet, trouble follows.
15) Charcoal Joe
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
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pages cm
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 favour. 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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
300 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Easy Rawlins, working as a school janitor in Los Angeles, is seduced by a teacher into taking her dog, which her husband is threatening to kill. When the husband is murdered, Rawlins becomes the prime suspect and must clear his name. By the author of Black Betty.
18) A red death
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Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 21 cm.
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...
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