Charcoal Joe (Easy Rawlins #14)

Posted on 23 November 2018 by Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley s indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve.Picking up where Rose Gold left off in L.A in the late 1960s, Ezekiel Easy Rawlins finds his life in transition He s ready to finally 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 has, together with two partners, 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 at Stanford , has been arrested and charged with the murder of a white man from Redondo Beach Rufus tells Easy he will pay and pay well to see his nephew exonerated, but seeing as how Seymour was literally found standing over the man s dead body at his cabin home and the racially charged motives behind it, 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 a life in shambles on the ground around his feet. New Read [ Charcoal Joe (Easy Rawlins #14) ] by [ Walter Mosley ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I have read the entire series, and we are now on the 14th one It is one of my all time favourites and you could think that by this stage that the quality has slipped Not one bit, Easy Rawlins is bruised and battered, and at an age when many black men in this era would have been dead, he has proved to be a miraculous survivor This is detective fiction that transcends its genre to provide us with a remarkable insight of this historical period and what it is be black in a racist USA There is ...I had not previously read an Easy Rawlins book, I didn t have a problem with it though with this book Easy s character is easy to like and I ve always wanted to try him out so I jumped in.Easy is about to marry the woman that is his current love Ms Bonnie, he is all ready to head over to her house when she gets back to town and get down on his knee Life seems to never work out like Easy wants though.He ends up getting a visit from his old time friend Mouse Mouse has a job for the private I had not previously read an Easy Rawlins book, I didn t have a problem with it though with this book Easy s character is easy to like and I ve always wanted to try him out so I jumped in.Easy is about to marry the woman that is his current love Ms Bonnie, he is all ready to head over to her house when she gets back to town and g...Guess I am a bit of an outlier on this one I love the Ezekiel Easy Porterhouse Rawlins character he is dependable, hard working, unbiased, with a strong, unwavering moral compass despite the unbalanced L.A world in which he lives He has friends in all walks of life Just as his life is settling down, with a new detective agency with two partners, and about to propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, in comes his best friend Ray Alexander Mouse Mouse wants Easy to help free a young black Guess I am a bit of an outlier on this one I love the Ezekiel Easy Porterhouse Rawlins character he is dependable, hard working, unbiased, with a strong, unwavering moral compass despite the unbalanced L.A world in which he lives He has friends in all walks of life Just as his life is settling down, with a new detective agency with two partners, and about to propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, in comes his best friend Ray Alexander Mouse Mouse wants Easy to help fr...As this 14th book in the series opens Easy Rawlins is riding pretty high With a windfall from a previous case Easy has opened a private detective agency in Los Angeles with his two partners, Whisper and Saul Easy s also about to propose to his girlfriend Bonnie Things don t go that well with Bonnie but Easy getting busy with a case pushes that to the back of his mind Easy s new case comes via his lifelong friend Mouse Alexander, a stone cold killer who s always had Easy s back It seems As this 14th book in the series opens Easy Rawlins is riding pretty high With a windfall from a previous case Easy has opened a private detective agency in Los Angeles with his two partners, Whisper and Saul Easy s also about to propose to his girlfriend Bonnie Things don t go that well with Bonnie but Easy getting busy with a case pushes that to the back of his mind Easy s new case comes via his lifelong friend Mouse Alexander, a stone cold killer who s always had Easy s back It seems that a 22 year old black post doc with a Ph.D in physics, Seymour Braithwaite, has been arrested for murdering two white men Peter Boughman and Ducky Mouse explains that criminal mastermind and very scary guy Charcoal Joe, currently in prison, is interested in Sey...Ezekiel Easy Rawlings used to be a custodian for the Los Angeles public schools He would trade favor for favor as he honed his skills as an investigator This book carries Ezekiel Easy Rawlings several years into his resurrection If I hadn t read all of the Rawlings saga I might beenthusiastic about Mosley s current effort We are now in the lat...Utterly absorbing, Charcoal Joe yanks you back to LA in 1968, not long after the Watts riots, and it hurls you into the world of Easy Rawlins, a black man at a difficult time, a private investigator passing the prime of his life It s been a while since I ve read any Easy and I d wondered if Mosley could ve kept his edge Truth is, right now, the author s incisive observations on skin colour and tensions between the public and police couldn t possibly be anyrelevant Mosley give us bitterl Utterly absorbing, Charcoal Joe yanks you back to LA in 1968, not long after the Watts riots, and it hurls you into the world of Easy Rawlins, a black man at a difficult time, a private investigator passing the prime...The book description is quite revealing, so no need to rehash the plot in this review I ll just tell you that you get what you expect from an Easy Rawlins mystery A host of players, a fast moving plot, some great sentences of wisdom and colorful characterizations Well done.he newest entry into the Easy Rawlins Mystery series won t be released until June 14, 2016 Even so, I just finished a review copy and couldn t wait to write the review I ve followed this series since Devil in a Blue Dress still my favorite in the series I was initially drawn to that book because the era after The Great Migration in Los Angeles is fascinating to me for some odd reason Over the course of the years, Easy has matured along with the City of Los Angeles This latest entry finds he newest entry into the Easy Rawlins Mystery series won t be released until June 14, 2016 Even so, I just finished a review copy and couldn t wait to write the review I ve followed this series s...Black men in America had learned centuries ago that the devil not only offered the best deals he was the only game in our part of townIn this latest installment of the Easy Rawlins series, Easy is hired by the dangerous, forever criminally minded Mouse If you think that s bad news, things just got a whole lot worse Charcoal Joe might just be even badder than Mouse Indeed he is the type of man that can make most men wince at the sound of his nameJoe has been in turn what they call aBlack men in America had learned centuries ago that the devil not only offered the best deals he was the only game in our part of townIn this late...Mosley dazzles with memorable characters and an unflinching witty well observed look at 1960s Los Angeles The fourteenth novel in the Easy Rawlins series is as much a joy to read as the first book I so appreciate how each storyline has a fresh feel wrapped around thought provoking prose as the characters manage the ethics of the world they live in, as temptations come in many forms As Easy tries to solve one of the most devious cases of his career, it is his personal life that will reach out Mosley dazzles with memorable characters and an unflinching witty well observed look at 1960s Los Angeles The fourteenth novel in the Easy Rawlins series is as much a joy to read as the first book I so appreciate how each stor...

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23 November 2018

Walter Mosley