A collection of seven stories from bestselling and award-winning mystery
writer Walter Mosley come together in a single trade paperback
volume.Now from the bestselling and award-winning writer comes Six Easy
Pieces. The beloved Ezekiel Rawlins now has a steady job as senior head
custodian of Sojourner Truth High School, a nice house with a garden, a
loving woman, and children. He counts the blessings of leading a
law-abiding life but is nowhere near happy. Easy mourns the loss of his
best friend, Mouse. Though he tries to leave the street life behind, he
still finds himself trading favors and investigating cases of arson,
murder, and missing people. People who can't depend on the law to solve
their problems, seek out Easy. A bomb is set in the high school where
Easy works. A man's daughter runs off with his employee. A beautiful
woman turns up dead and the man who loved her is wrongly accused. Easy
is the man people turn to in search of justice and retribution. He even
becomes party to a killing that the police might call murder.