Farewell, amethystine
Mosley, Walter2024
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January 1970. Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, LA's premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations. A loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency: all is right with the world. When Amethystine Stoller - his own personal Helen of Troy - arrives, seeking answers about her ex-husband's disappearance, Easy wants to believe he has a simple case on his hands. But the investigation sends him on a trip down memory lane: haunted by loss, love, and a hunger that has eaten at him since he was a Black boy on his own on the streets of Fifth Ward, Houston, Texas. As the case becomes personal, Easy faces a reckoning. A new decade brings with it new expectations: men and women, Black and White, and wrong or right. To save his soul and solve the case, Easy has a big choice to make...
Main title:
Farewell, amethystine / by Walter Mosley.
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Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2024.
Collation:
336 pages ; 25 cm.
Series title:
Easy Rawlins mysteries ; n16.
ISBN:
9781474616591 (hardback)
Language:
English
Subject:
Detective and mystery storiesRawlins, Easy, (Fictitious character) -- FictionAfrican American private investigators -- FictionAfrican American veterans -- FictionVeterans -- FictionMissing persons -- Investigation -- FictionPolice -- California -- Los Angeles -- FictionOrganized crime -- FictionRace relations -- FictionNineteen seventies -- FictionCalifornia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
BRN:
461341
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