Walter Mosley won acclaim as the most exciting new mystery writer in America with his first two novels, Devil in a Blue Dress and A Red Death. Now comes White Butterfly, a powerful, mesmerizing tale of two men, each of whom destroys what he loves most in the world - one because of his secret shame, the other because of his secret pride. One of the two is a killer. The other is Easy Rawlins, the man who tracks him down.
The police don't show up on Easy's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get intersted. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But Easy turns them down: He's married now, a father - his detective days are over. Then a white college coed dies the same way, and the cops make it clear that if Easy doesn't help, his best friend is headed for jail. So Easy's back, walking the midnight streets of Watts and the darker, twisted avenues of a cunning killer's mind, in the most explosive Easy Rawlin's mystery yet . . .
The police don't show up on Easy's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get intersted. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But Easy turns them down: He's married now, a father - his detective days are over. Then a white college coed dies the same way, and the cops make it clear that if Easy doesn't help, his best friend is headed for jail. So Easy's back, walking the midnight streets of Watts and the darker, twisted avenues of a cunning killer's mind, in the most explosive Easy Rawlin's mystery yet . . .
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