Easy Rawlins mysteries
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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
In a Los Angeles bar, "Easy" Rawlins, a black war veteran just fired from his job, wonders how he'll pay his mortgage. DeWitt Albright, a quietly vicious white man, walks in and offers Easy good money if he'll find Daphne Monet.
2) A red death
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Pub. Date
[2002]
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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.
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Pub. Date
2002, c1992
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When three black bar girls are killed by a serial murderer the LAPD pays little attention, but when a white college co-ed becomes a victim it gets their attention. That's when they call on Easy Rawlins because he can go places and do things the police cannot.
4) Black Betty
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Private investigator Easy Rawlins is hired to find Elizabeth Eady, aka "Black Betty", who has left chaos and mayhem in her wake.
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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
Even though he has given up the street life and taken a job as supervising custodian of Sojourner Truth Junior High School, trouble seems to follow Easy Rawlins, this time in the form of a seductive teacher with something to hide, and a dead body in the school garden.
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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 6
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Nineteen-year-old Easy Rawlins and his friend Mouse become engulfed in a world of voodoo, revenge, and death, when they set out in 1939 to retrieve money from Mouse's stepfather so that Mouse can marry EttaMae--a girl with whom Easy was once involved.
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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 8
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Easy should be living a contented life, with steady work as senior head custodian of Sojourner Truth High School, and a loving family. But happiness is as elusive for Easy as smoke in shadows. Easy's the man folks seek out when they can't take their problems to anyone else. Trading favors and investigating cases of arson, murder, missing persons, and false accusations, it's hard to steer clear of trouble. --Publisher's description.
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Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Easy Rawlins agrees to help police find the murderer of a redheaded woman known as Little Scarlet, and, with the help of his friend Mouse, he finds himself on the path of a killer who is suffering from a rage inherent in the riots in Los Angeles in the summer of 1965.
10) Cinnamon kiss
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Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Easy Rawlins, a private investigator in Vietnam-era Los Angeles, is in need of a source of quick money in order to secure a needed medical treatment for his daughter, so he agrees to take on what he knows is a shady case, trying to track down a storefront attorney who has disappeared along with a case of unspecified documents.
11) Blonde faith
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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Easy Rawlins' life begins to fall apart around him when he arrives home from work to find a friend has left his daughter on Easy's doorstep, another friend has gone missing and is wanted by the police, and his girlfriend is leaving him to marry another man, forcing Easy to find a way to save his friends and protect his own heart.
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Pub. Date
2013
Description
We last saw Easy Rawlins in Blonde Faith, fighting for his life after his car plunges over a cliff. True to form, the tough WWII veteran survives. Soon, he and his murderous sidekick, Mouse, are cruising the mean streets of L.A. in all their psychedelic 1967 glory to look for a young black man who disappeared during an acid trip. Fueled by an elixir called Gator's Blood, brewed by the conjure woman Mama Jo, Easy experiences a physical, spiritual,...
14) Charcoal Joe
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Pub. Date
2016.
Appears on list
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...
15) Blood grove
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"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...