Easy Rawlins Mystery: A Red Death : An Easy Rawlins Novel (Series #2) (Paperback)

from SeriousGrace

Red Death is Walter Mosley's continuation of his debut novel, Devil in a Blue Dress. In Devil in a Blue Dress we meet Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins, a hard drinkin', hard lovin' unofficial Los Angeles detective who has an eye for the ladies and is a magnet for trouble. In Red Death Easy gets...

from Hantsuki

After reading Devil in a Blue Dress for my California Fiction class, I was pleasantly surprised to discover a wonderful new author and series I needed to keep tabs on. Naturally, I continued with the second book in the Easy Rawlins series, A Red Death. Like its predecessor, A Red Death was a page...

from michaelbartley

another book I read for my contemporary lit class, and I am glad I read it. I am finding that this genre, the hard boiled PI novels, have depth! the main character, Easy, is SK tragic hero. He knows that no matter what happens in this case, there will be other battles. I liked this a lot

from ChazziFrazz

1950s Los Angeles - Easy Rollins is living an American dream of a sort. He is buying his own home, owns some rental property and life is semi-simple for the moment. But things take a sudden and deadly change. Seems a tax man has taken an interest in Easy and his financial set-up. To all appearanc...

from everfresh1

Not as good as first novel, 'Devil in the Blue Dress'. The book flow is kind of laboring. I noticed that both novels suffer from the same shortcoming - Easy (main character) just suddenly figures out everything in the end but there is no really logical explanation how he got to that conclusion. W...