Easy Rawlins Series #13
Doubleday
June 2016
On Sale: June 14, 2016
Featuring: Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins
ISBN: 0385539207 EAN: 9780385539203 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold
left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel “Easy”
Rawlins finds his life in transition. He’s ready—finally—to
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, together with two partners, Saul Lynx and Tinsford
“Whisper” Natly, has started a new detective agency. 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. 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. 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. Between 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.