"Master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley returns with this
crowning achievement in the Easy Rawlins saga, in which the iconic
detective's loyalties are tested on the sun-soaked streets of Southern
California (National Book Foundation)
It is 1969, and flames can be seen on the horizon, protest wafts like
smoke though the thick air, and Easy Rawlins, the Black private
detective whose small agency finally has its own office, gets a visit
from a white Vietnam veteran. The young man comes to Easy with a story
that makes little sense. He and his lover, a beautiful young woman, were
attacked in a citrus grove at the city's outskirts. He may have killed a
man, and the woman and his dog are now missing. Inclined to turn down
what sounds like nothing but trouble, Easy takes the case when he
realizes how damaged the young vet is from his war experiences--the bond
between veterans superseding all other considerations.
The veteran is not Easy's only unlooked-for trouble. Easy's adopted
daughter Feather's white uncle shows up uninvited, raising questions and
unsettling the life Easy has long forged for the now young woman. Where
Feather sees a family reunion, Easy suspects something else, something
that will break his heart.
Blood Grove is a crackling, moody, and thrilling race through a
California of hippies and tycoons, radicals and sociopaths, cops and
grifters, both men and women. Easy will need the help of his
friends--from the genius Jackson Blue to the dangerous Mouse Alexander,
Fearless Jones, and Christmas Black--to make sense of a case that
reveals the darkest impulses humans harbor.
Blood Grove is a novel of vast scope and intimate insight, and a
soulful call for justice by any means necessary.
