Agent: Gloria Loomis, Watkins Loomis Agency. As Easy observes, “Life was like a bruise for us back then, and today too.” This is a must for Easy Rawlins fans and anyone who appreciates fresh, powerful prose. As always in this series, racism in all its insidious forms is central. Easy gets help from such series regulars as police captain Melvin Suggs and Fearless Jones, but Easy does his own heavy lifting in dramatic fashion. Easy can’t get the whole truth from Charcoal Joe or Seymour, and he soon finds himself embroiled with deadly foes in a quest for missing money and jewels. Seymour was arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting a couple of crooks at a beach house in Malibu. The assignment seems simple enough at first. A dangerous friend of Easy’s, Raymond “Mouse” Alexander, introduces him to Rufus “Charcoal Joe” Tyler, who wants Easy to clear Seymour Brathwaite, a 22-year-old doctor of physics doing postgraduate work at UCLA. In Charcoal Joe, the 14th installment in Mosley’s ongoing saga of the brilliant private eye, old friends bring Easy unwelcome new business. PI working as a partner in the WRENS-L Detective Agency, which combines his initials with those of his two partners. Set in 1968, MWA Grand Master Mosley’s excellent 14th Easy Rawlins mystery (after 2014’s Rose Gold) finds the favor-dealing L.A.
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