Money trouble always seems to creep up on him. Easy seems destined to roam the streets of Los Angeles as a private dick. Sometimes I wish that this series would just end where Easy acquires a bunch of money, sends Feather off to a good school overseas, retires from running the streets, settles down on farmland out in Ventura somewhere with Bonnie and tend crops on his farm all day. That being said, I’d have to place Rose Gold somewhere in the top three.Įasy Rawlins needs money. To date, Little Scarlett sits atop the heap in my mind. Like many other fans of the series, some of the books speak more to you than others. There are some obvious parallels between Leonid McGill, the latest detective from the mind of this prolific author, though there is only one Easy Rawlins. For a moment there, it seemed as if he’d done away with the character that made him famous. I imagine that Mosley must possess a data base complete with bios on each, accessible whenever the need arises to reinsert one within a narrative.Īlthough Mosley’s career has taken many twists and turns genre wise, the Easy Rawlins franchise is what put him on the map. Series regulars such as, Mouse, Rawlins’ oldest and deadliest friend surface along the way as well as other reoccurring characters from previous installments. Hot on the trail of a former boxer turned political radical, and the daughter of a high-powered arms dealer, every law enforcement agency in Los Angeles has the P.I.
These stories allow for a blunt examination of society, without painting Mosley as angry or racist, but rather as an unfiltered realist.Īs in the case with prior books within the Rawlins Mystery series, Rose Gold thrusts our LA based street sleuth into another pot of boiling trouble. I’ve always been intrigued by how intensely Mosley speaks on the African-American condition of that time without alienating readers of other races. The fact that these stories are based decades in the past, and still manage to maintain a tangible sense of believability for both its period and characters is a testament to this author’s brilliance.
The very idea that Walter Mosley has been exploring the world of protagonist Ezekiel Rawlins for the past quarter century without losing steam is a true wonder.
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