Synopses & Reviews
November 1963: Easy's settled into a steady gig as a school custodian. It's a quiet, simple existence but a few moments of ecstasy with a sexy teacher will change all that.
When the lady vanishes, Easy's stuck with a couple of corpses, the cops on his back, and a little yellow dog who's nobody's best friend. With his not-so-simple past snapping at his heels, and with enemies old and new looking to get even, Easy must kiss his careful little life good-bye and step closer to the edge....
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"Easy Rawlins is back, which is great news....Mosley's thrillers, always thrilling, are salutary as well." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
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"Mosley lets his plot unravel with the skill of a genre veteran, but as always, it is his ability to set Easy's personal story in the context of the historical moment that gives this series its uniqueness....A superb novel in a superb series." Bill Ott, Booklist
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"The fantastically intricate plot is only average for this celebrated series. But no living novelist beats Mosley's nervy sense of what thin ice the solidest-seeming characters build their lives upon, and how terrifying it is to feel the surface crack and shiver." Kirkus Reviews
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"The best book yet in this fine series. Easy Rawlins [is] one of the most distinctive voices in crime fiction." Adam Woog, The Seattle Times
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"[A] well-energized and crafty volume....Walter Mosley is a literary artist as well as a master of mystery." R. W. B. Lewis, The New York Times Book Review
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"God bless the day that Walter Mosley created Easy Rawlins!" Carolyn See, Washington Post Book World
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"Early 1960s black Los Angeles is alive in the look and talk of the book....Easy is a cool dude struggling to stay alive and make sense of his tough and tawdry world." Boston Sunday Globe
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"Entertaining....Like Chandler and Ellroy, Mosley's wry wit holds nothing sacred." Detroit Free Press
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"[Mosley] writes with a pure, true voice. A Little Yellow Dog marks another winner for its remarkable author." Houston Chronicle
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"A Little Yellow Dog is just as smoky and sexy as Devil In a Blue Dress....[Mosley] tells his story fast and hard, sometimes funny, sometimes lyrical." San Jose Mercury News
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"How does Walter Mosley do it?....Each Easy Rawlins mystery is better than its predecessor richer, more nuanced and, in this case, funnier." Newsday
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"Mosley just writes so well so crisply, so smoothly....His view of human nature is bone-solid realistic, no illusions." Philadelphia Inquirer
Synopsis
Easy finally believes he can lead a simple life and leave his haunted past behind him--until he meets a woman who changes everything. November 1963: Easy's settled into a steady gig as a school custodian. It's a quiet, simple existence--but a few moments of ecstasy with a sexy teacher will change all that. When the lady vanishes, Easy's stuck with a couple of corpses, the cops on his back, and a little yellow dog who's nobody's best friend.
With his not-so-simple past snapping at his heels, and with enemies old and new looking to get even, Easy must kiss his careful little life good-bye--and step closer to the edge.
About the Author
Walter Mosley is the New York Times bestselling author of five Easy Rawlins mysteries: Devil in A Blue Dress, A Red Death, White Butterfly, Black Betty, and A Little Yellow Dog; three non-mystery novels, Blue Light, Gone Fishin', and R. L.'s Dream; two collections of stories featuring Socrates Fortlow, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, for which he received the Anisfield Wolf Award, and which was an HBO movie; and a nonfiction book, Workin' On The Chain Gang. Mosley is also the author of the Leonid McGill, and Fearless Jones mystery series, The Tempest Tales and Six Easy Pieces. He is a former president of the Mystery Writers of America, a founder of the PEN American Center Open Book Committee, and is on the board of directors of the National Book Awards. A native of Los Angeles, he now lives in New York City.