Search - Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, Bk 1)

I have always enjoyed Walter Mosley's style and re-reading Devil in a Blue Dress was like catching up with an old friend. If you like mysteries, you can't go wrong with Easy Rawlins.

I've tried reading many of Mosley's books and just don't like them, this one I only got to about page 76 and just plain gave up on it! UGH!!!

Easy Rawlins is persuing the American Dream. After serving his country in WWII, he returns home, moves to L.A., gets a good job, and buys a small home. Things are going swell, till Easy suddenly finds himself out of a job, and the mortgage is due in a week.

So Easy jumps at the chance to earn a quick hundred bucks. All he has to do is find a girl for a repentant lover. Oh! I forgot to mention, Easy is a black man. He's looking for a white girl. And this is 1948 Watts. Easy finds himself caught in a mealstrom of extortion, graft, racism, and murder -- and that's just the mild stuff!

I read the book in one day. The reader will find it hard to put down as every page if full of action. A definite "must read".