Mosley, Walter

Private detective Leonid McGill struggles with hard times, personally and professionally, reluctantly accepts a job from a beautiful woman who walks into his office with a stack of money, but after he learns the reasons why she fears for her life, Leonid is certain that if his family's misadventures do not kill him, this case will.

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.

"After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to investigate"--OCLC.

Paris Minton, an African-American bookstore owner in 1950s Los Angeles, becomes caught up in a terrifying situation when he agrees to help his friend Fearless Jones track down a missing millionaire.

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.

When a strange white man asks to spend the summer in Charles Blakey's basement, Charles is a bit suspicious, but agrees to let hims stay, and soon finds himself pulled into his new tennant's bizarre world.