He tries to work as a head custodian for a while, but inevitably returns to the PI trade. He adopts two children discarded in the midst of two separate cases. Easy marries, has a child, then is abandoned by his wife, who relocates to Monaco with a deposed Ghanaian king.
Over the course of the novels, Mosley weaves together a distinct, colorful, and dramatic world that rivals any of the cinematic fantasy universes that we’re now inundated with. In anticipation of Mosley’s latest book and in light of the antisocial, slow world that we now inhabit, I decided to embark on a book binge and read the entire Easy Rawlins series. The white man, Craig, reminds Easy of a German soldier that he spared in the war and so he begrudgingly (is there any other way for Easy Rawlins?) takes on the case. The novel opens with Easy receiving a request from a white, shell-shocked Vietnam vet who believes that he may have stabbed an unknown black man in a faraway orange grove, but has no physical proof of the act. Easy runs a private detective office with two partners, Saul Lynx and Tinsford “Whisper” Natly.
Now, 21 years later in Easy’s life, Mosley has published his 15th Rawlins novel after five years away from the character.īlood Grove places us in 1969. In Devil, it is 1948 in Los Angeles and Easy, a black World War II veteran trying to survive in a world hell-bent on killing him, becomes a private detective after losing his job at an aviation plant. Mosley has produced at a dizzying pace since that debut, but the author remains inextricably linked to his first protagonist, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins. A LITTLE MORE than 30 years ago, Walter Mosley published his first novel, Devil in a Blue Dress (1990), an immediate hit that would become a 1995 Carl Franklin film starring Denzel Washington.
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