by Walter Mosley, Stanley Bennett Clay
A big thank you to Moonlight Reader for yet another fun, inventive BookLikes game! I had a wonderful time, while also advancing -- though with decidedly fewer new reads than I'd origianlly been planning -- my two main reading goals for this year (classic crime fiction and books written by women). ...
A Red Death takes place during the era of the Red Scare, and Easy Rawlins finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place as the government tries to root out communist sympathizers. A Red Death had a plot that was a little less twisty than the other books that I've read by Walter Mosley, and...
Mosley takes the traditional hard-boiled detective mystery and gives it a refreshing spin by spotlighting African-American communities. His lead, Easy Rawlins, is a Louisiana/Texas transplant now working in L.A. as a janitor, maintaining the building he surreptitiously owns. As any decent detective...
It's Mosley. Always a good read.