Full name: Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Author: Walter Mosley Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery Culture: African-American Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780385539203 0385539207

Picking up where his last adventures in 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, and his life in shambles around his feet. This book is part of the "Easy Rawlins" series. Here are some other books from this series: "Little Green" First published in 2013 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Blonde Faith" First published in 2007 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Cinnamon Kiss" First published in 2005 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Little Scarlet" First published in 2004 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Six Easy Pieces" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Bad Boy Brawly Brown" First published in 2001 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Gone Fishin'" First published in 1997 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "A Little Yellow Dog" First published in 1996 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Black Betty" First published in 1994 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "White Butterfly" First published in 1992 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "A Red Death" First published in 1991 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Devil in a Blue Dress" First published in 1990 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Rose Gold" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: Six Easy Pieces by Walter Mosley Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley Gun Games by Faye Kellerman Black Betty by Walter Mosley Gone Fishin' by Walter Mosley Bad Boy Brawly Brown by Walter Mosley Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley Little Green by Walter Mosley Little Elvises by Timothy Hallinan Rose Gold by Walter Mosley Sugar Skull by Denise Hamilton White Butterfly by Walter Mosley The Fame Thief by Timothy Hallinan Crashed by Timothy Hallinan Last Lullaby by Denise Hamilton A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley Walkin' the Dog by Walter Mosley A Red Death by Walter Mosley