Here’s another convoluted installment in the Ezekiel “Easy”
Rawlins, Los Angeles private investigator, series. Of course, a beautiful woman
must be part of the cast, and here it is Easy’s client, Amethystine. Her ex-husband, Curt, has gone missing, and
it doesn’t take long for Easy to find his dead body. The next question is why was he killed and by
whom. Another missing person is Easy’s cop
friend, Melvin, whose disappearance may or may not be linked to Curt’s
murder. As usual, there are so many
characters and so many twists and turns that it’s difficult to keep up with who
are the good guys and who are the bad guys.
Of course, some, like Easy’s longtime friend Mouse, straddle the line,
straying into doing bad things for good reasons. Fearless Jones, who stars in another Mosley
series, makes a cameo appearance here as well. Amethystine herself may not be
entirely innocent, for that matter. I
would like Mosley’s work a lot more if the plot were not so intricate, but
there’s no denying he has a way with words and has his finger on the pulse of
the pitfalls that plagued Black people in 1969.
Easy may have escaped Louisiana, but he is still walking a tightrope in
order not to piss off the white chief of police in L.A. And I don’t usually take much note of the
dust cover, but the purple lettering is perfect for a title that includes the
name Amethystine.
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