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Title: White Butterfly (An Easy Rowlins Mystery) by Walter Mosley, Paul Winfield ISBN: 1-55927-224-4 Publisher: Audio Renaissance Pub. Date: 15 June, 1993 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Exciting Thriller
Comment: Mosley delivers an exciting mystery novel that once again, centers around the life of Easy Rawlins. Easy is recruited to find the murderer of a young white coed, who happens to be the daughter of a prominent LA Asst D.A. She was also found dead in a mostly black area of Los Angeles and LAPD detectives coerces Rawlins into assisting them with their investigation. Only problem is that Easy is now married with a daughter and has to put his family situation in jeopardy if he decides to offer help. He goes through his usual questioning of witnesses and as usual, he discovers a few surprises in the process.
A good thriller but like most Mosley novels, he has too many characters to keep track of. Also, Easy is a borderline alcoholic in this one as he is always coming out of the liquor store or some kind of bar filled with scotch. It's a wonder how he's able to question his witnesses without slurring his speech or staggering all over the place since he's drunk throughout most of the book. A good novel but not one of Mosley's best efforts.
Rating: 4
Summary: Strong Plot Strong Characters
Comment: ... Mosley gives us a male character who isn't afraid to cry and when he gets angry he doesn't get violent but does get even. The mystery surrounding the death of the white stripper is cleverly written into the plot and when the clues reveal the killer they all make sense. This series improves with each novel and Easy is turning into a complex person who has demons of his own to battle.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another Easy Rawlins Gem
Comment: Though Devil in a Blue Dress and A Red Death are great reads which stand apart from other books in the genre White Butterfly might be the best Easy Rawlins story. Like Ross Macdonald, Walter Mosley weaves a tapestry of pain and heartache and human frailty into White Butterfly. Along the way we get to revisit the friendship of Mouse and Easy and again we learn that there are degrees of right and wrong.
It is only the killing of a white girl which prompts the police to ask for Easy's help. There was no hurry when only black girls were getting murdered in the Los Angeles of 1956. It is the last thing Easy wants as he has a woman named Regina and a child in his life now. Yet he can not give all of himself to them and holds back from telling Regina about his life and his property and where he gets his money.
Mosley has tightly written a character who though good also is flawed and wrestles with his own life and motives as much as he does with the cops and bad guys. We understand why Easy is more comfortable with the amoral Mouse than with the rest of society. You do not have to be black to appreciate the complex moral landscape Mosley paints of Easy's world. You feel Easy's personal loss at the end of this book and it stays with you longer than the mystery.
If Ross Macdonald wrote like a slumming angel then Mosley writes like an angel of the slums. He doesn't try to make us understand Easy's world, only lets us ride along with Easy as he attempts to make sense of it all himself. In the struggle we learn about pain and sorrow and regret, which is to say we learn about life. Reading this book will make you want more of Easy and more of Walter Mosley.
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Title: A Red Death (Easy Rawlins Mystery Series , No 2) by Walter Mosley ISBN: 0671010069 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Mystery (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Paperback)) by Walter Mosley ISBN: 0743451791 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Black Betty : Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Gator Green" by Walter Mosley ISBN: 0743451783 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 19 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Little Yellow Dog : Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Gray-Eyed Death" by Walter Mosley ISBN: 0743451805 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 19 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Gone Fishin: An Easy Rawlins Mystery (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Paperback)) by Walter Mosley ISBN: 0743451759 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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