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White Butterfly: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story Author:Walter Mosley
Book Description:
It's 1956 and, times being what they are, no one in official Los Angeles pays much attention as a serial killer murders three black bar girls. But when a white stripper is similarly murdered - and when she turns out to be a UCLA coed, and the daughter of a politically powerful L.A. prosecutor - all hell breaks loose. The heat is finally on to find the killer.
Stymied, the LAPD calls on Easy Rawlins for help, for Easy can go places and do things the police cannot. Reluctantly, Easy accepts their plea and begins a deadly quest that takes him through the seedy jazz joints of Bone Street and the dingy rooms of Hollywood Row. It is a brutal, dangerous odyssey that leads to a startling and heartbreaking conclusion - and jeopardizes his marriage and his life.
Kimberly H. (kstar) from FT LAUDERDALE, FL wrote on 1/5/2007...
First came Devil in a Blue Dress. Next came A Red Death and now comes White Butterfly. This is a msmerizing tale fo two men, each of whom destroys what he loves most in the world--one because of his secret shame, the other because of his secret pride.One of the two is a killer...Who could it be?
Melissa G. (mysterym) from LOS ANGELES, CA wrote on 11/6/2006...
easy rawlins is a great detective and this is another fab addition.
K M. (gameshowqueen) from W HOLLYWOOD, CA wrote on 7/17/2006...
a great mystery
Michael S. from JEFFERSON CTY, MO wrote on 5/8/2006...
different perspective from other detective novels, and even from Mosley in that he doesn't make Easy 100%, or even 90%, likeable
Saara A. (sunnymoody) from WASHINGTON, DC wrote on 2/22/2006...
Hmmm..interesting a different kind of mystery,read it in a day
Walter Mosley won acclaim as the most exciting new mystery writer in America with his first two novels, Devil in a Blue Dress and A Red Death. Now comes White Butterfly, a powerful, mesmerizing tale of two men, each of whom destroys what he loves most in the world - one because of his secret shame, the other because of his secret pride. One of the two is a killer. The other is Easy Rawlins, the man who tracks him down.
The police don't show up on Easy'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 intersted. 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 - his detective days are over. Then a white college coed dies the same way, and the cops make it clear that if Easy 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, in the most explosive Easy Rawlin's mystery yet . . .