num_pages: 320
description: The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins'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 interested. 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 -- and his detective days are over. Then a white college coed dies the same brutal death, and the cops put the heat on Easy: If he 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....
language: English
title: White Butterfly
titlecomplete: White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins, #3)
characters: Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins
genres: Noir, Mystery, African American, Detective, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 4535
places: Los Angeles, California
series: Easy Rawlins
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Hammett Prize, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: CWA Silver Dagger, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Washington Square Press