Easy can tell there is much more than he is being told: Robert Lee, his new employer, is as suspect as the man who disappeared. His assistant of sorts, the beautiful 'Cinnamon' Cargill, is gone as well. He has to track the disappearance of an eccentric, prominent attorney. Then another friend, Saul Lynx, offers a job that might solve Easy's problem without jail time. And his friend Mouse tells him it's a cinch. It's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time. It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. Soon, Easy's search uncovers a shocking crime in Mosley's latest sizzling 'New York Times' bestseller.īook Synopsis In this thrilling mystery, Easy Rawlins takes a job to find a missing attorney and his beautiful assistant-and faces danger around every corner. Easy gets a gig working for a legendary private eye on a missing person case. Starring Clarke Peters, John Guerrasio and Alibe Parsons and dramatised by Bonnie Greer, this was first broadcast as part of BBC Radio 4’s ‘American Noir’ season.Warning: contains strong language.About the Book It's 1966, and Easy Rawlins is desperate for cash to pay for his daughter's much-needed medical treatment. But as Easy tries to unravel a case that sends him in search of his own past, he finds only death under the stones he is paid to turn over…. With Martin Luther King in the news and a new young president in the White House, it’s a time of hope for most black Americans. Easy knows she always brings trouble in her wake, but he has a family to support and needs Lynx’s money. An old acquaintance of Easy’s when he was a child back in Texas, she had been working for a rich white woman in Beverley Hills, but left her job with no forwarding address. So when Saul Lynx needs a missing woman found, he hires Easy to do his dirty work.Įlizabeth Eady - ‘Black Betty’ - is as dark as midnight and just as beautiful.

On the shady side of LA in 1961, African-American private eye Easy Rawlins can go places a white detective cannot.

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