Walter Mosley’s BLOOD GROVE AN EASY RAWLINS MYSTERY Social Commentary Brilliantly Mixed Mystery
By Lapacazo Sandoval, Contributing Writer
Published May 20, 2021
It is 1969, and flames can be seen on the horizon, protest wafts like some through the thick air and Easy Rawlins, the Black private detective whose small agency finally has its own office, gets a visit from a White Vietnam veteran. The young man comes to Easy with a story that makes little sense.
If you know Easy Rawlins and his mysterious life, there is a moment in the labyrinth of the story that leaves you puzzled maybe, even scratching your head and flipping back to re-read past chapters.
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Book World: Walter Mosley s new Easy Rawlins book is a masterful mix of mystery and social commentary
Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post
Feb. 8, 2021
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There comes a moment in every Easy Rawlins mystery I ve read, where I realize I have no idea what s going on. The plot picks up speed, becoming a hectic Tilt-a-Whirl ride where dead bodies, cold-stone killers, femmes fatales, crooked cops and lost spaces in Los Angeles whiz by at top velocity. It s at this moment - when I m most exasperated with Walter Mosley as a writer - that I m also most admiring. Because, once again, I realize that I don t care all that much that I can t keep track of what s going on - no more than I care that I can t keep track of what s going on in The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep or Cotton Comes to Harlem.