A young professor at a local college, not the kind of man who runs in criminal circles. Charcoal Joe is positive that the young man could not have committed these crimes. A young black man in 1960s Los Angeles, who finds himself being charged for the murder of two white men. But what he needs from Easy has nothing to do with his business, he says, it has to do with a young man he has befriended. Charcoal Joe is currently serving time in prison but that doesn’t stop him from conducting business. Mouse introduces Easy to an aging mobster Rufus Tyler, known as Charcoal Joe. Rawlins’ friend Mouse is a killer and feared man and when he calls in a favor, he do what he asks. Life is looking up for Easy as he has a windfall from a prior case, he’s getting ready to propose to the woman he loves and his new partnership has him working alongside friends he trusts and loves.īut life never does come easy for Easy Rawlins as a new job comes along. This is book fourteen of the series and picks up Rawlins in Los Angeles, circa the late 1960s, as he begins his new Detective Agency. 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.īetween 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.Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley is heavy on characters, heavy on setting and is heavy on cool as befitting an Easy Rawlins mystery. 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.
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. 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.
He’s ready-finally-to propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, and start a life together. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins finds his life in transition.
Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. Walter Mosley’s indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve.
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