rawlins, easy (fictitious character)

Private investigator Easy Rawlins is hired to find Elizabeth Eady, aka "Black Betty", who has left chaos and mayhem in her wake.

"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 ... 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"--Provided by publisher.

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.

Easy Rawlins tries to find a serial killer who preys on bar girls in Los Angeles of the 1950s.

Presents critical analyses of eight novels by Walter Mosley, creator of the African-American detective Easy Rawlins, each with a plot synopsis, character portraits, thematic discussions, and historical contexts, and includes a biography of the author.

Unemployed African-American veteran Easy Rawlins accepts an offer of some detective work in 1948 from white gangster Dewitt Albright, who wants Easy to scour the jazz joints of Los Angeles in an effort to locate blonde femme fatale Daphne Monet.

Easy Rawlins becomes caught up in murder and the racial tensions of 1960s Los Angeles when he agrees to find Brawly Brown, the teenage son of a long-time friend who has left home and is running with the radical Urban Revolutionary Party.

Presents seven stories featuring Ezekiel Rawlins, a man who has succeeded in leaving the street life behind, but who has gained a reputation for being the one to call when the law cannot be trusted.

Easy Rawlins becomes caught up in murder and the racial tensions of 1960s Los Angeles when he agrees to find Brawly Brown, the teenage son of a long-time friend who has left home and is running with the radical Urban Revolutionary Party.

Unemployed African-American veteran Easy Rawlins accepts an offer of some detective work in 1948 from white gangster Dewitt Albright, who wants Easy to scour the jazz joints of Los Angeles in an effort to locate blonde femme fatale Daphne Monet.