White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
by:
Walter Mosley (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780393033663 (039303366X)
ASIN: 039303366X
Publish date: 1992-07-17
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Cultural,
American,
Historical Fiction,
African American,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
Race,
Fiction
Series: Easy Rawlins (#3)
White Butterfly is about a series of murders in the black community of Los Angeles in 1956. The police paid little attention to the murders since the victims were black women. But, when a white stripper, Cyndi Starr, AKA The White Butterfly is murdered then everything changes. It turns out that she...
My friends, this is why I review. Because some day, in a mere ten years, I'm going to innocently pick up this book and think, "hey, I should give this a try." About twenty pages in, I realized I had already read White Butterfly. I peeked at the resolution, and sure enough, I was right. Although, qui...