I used to love those Serpents Tail covers from their early days in publishing. I used to buy their books based on the cover alone.Mosley's Easy Rawlins series is 14 books long and I think I've only read the first couple. I did like them but I never seem to be able to keep pace with authors whose work I enjoy.
The last time I read Mosley was back in 2013, a re-read of the first Easy book - Devil in a Blue Dress
It's been way too long
White Butterfly (1992)
The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But Easy turns them down. He's married now, a father -- and his detective days are over. Then a white college coed dies the same brutal death, and the cops put the heat on Easy: If he doesn't help, his best friend is headed for jail. So Easy's back, walking the midnight streets of Watts and the darker, twisted avenues of a cunning killer's mind....A Little Yellow Dog (1996)
It's 1964, and Easy Rawlins has given up street life, and has a job as a high school janitor. One
morning, Easy is seduced by a teacher with a dog. By evening, the teacher is gone, leaving Easy with her dog, and a corpse. A murderer is running loose and a little yellow dog is plotting revenge.
Now you are making me want to find one of my Easy Rawlings books and start reading. White Butterfly is the next in the series for me to read. Or maybe I should try some of his other series, since I have some of those too.
ReplyDeleteI have a few from his other series too, but think I'll try and pick up with Easy first before the others.
DeleteI read some of these years ago, and really should catch up on more. I like the sound of the Yellow Dog one.
ReplyDeleteIt's easy to lose track of great authors isn't it. It is for me at least.
DeleteCol – Don’t know why I stopped reading the Easy Rawlins books. I liked them. Thanks for the reminder to catch up.
ReplyDeleteElgin, I'm the same. I did enjoy the ones I had read previously.
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