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Loading... Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Hardcover)) (original 2016; edition 2016)by Walter Mosley (Author)
Work InformationCharcoal Joe by Walter Mosley (2016)
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) Jonathan5 | Feb 20, 2023 |  This is the first Easy Rawlins Mystery I read. I liked it a lot. I've been meaning to read this series and I am glad I did. Easy is fairly laid back. He's smart. He still gets into trouble but is able to get himself out of the trouble. I liked his daughter Feather. I also liked his partners, Saul and Whisper. They seem to bring down the bad guys and save the good ones. I'll be looking forward to reading more of Easy and his people. (  ) Sheila1957 | Jul 17, 2022 | ) skipstern | Jul 11, 2021 | Easy has established a detective agency, WRENS-L, and has partnered with Saul Lynx and Tinsford (Whisper) Natty. Subplots of the novel deal with investigations handled by Easy's partners but the main story is that of relationships, deceit, murder and betrayal: all deftly and powerfully written by Mosley. RonWelton | Apr 12, 2021 | As complexly plotted as ever, Charcoal Joe finds Easy establishing himself (finally) as a licensed private detective, and this story revisits almost the entire cast of supporting characters from the last 20 years. It starts with Mouse, which is never a good place to start, and takes in Bonnie and Jackson Blue, Mama Jo and Melvin Suggs with a nice crossover from Fearless Jones. Mosley is playing his greatest hits here and the crowd loves it. I stayed up all night to finish Devil in a Blue Dress back in 1996. This time around, I went to sleep in the middle, but my reading experience was just as fresh and as thrilling as the first time. (  ) asxz | Mar 13, 2019 | no reviews | add a review
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Fiction.
African American Fiction.
Literature.
Mystery.
HTML:Walter Mosley??s indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve. Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, 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 (young, bright, top of his class in physics at Stanford), 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. Between his new company, a heart that should be broken but is not, a whole raft of new bad guys on his tail, and a bad odor that surrounds Charcoal Joe, Easy has his hands full, his horizons askew, an No library descriptions found. |
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