num_pages: 272
description: Andrew Vachss called Devil in a Blue Dress , Walter Mosley's debut mystery featuring Easy Rawlins, a tough black private detective in L.A.'s Watts section, "the most self-assured, uniquely-voiced first novel I've ever read." The Wall Street Journal said of its sequel, A Red Death : "Remarkable...proves Mr. Mosley's debut was no fluke." Readers and critics agree that Walter Mosley is writing novels fit to stand alongside the giants of the L.A. hardboiled tradition.
language: English
title: White Butterfly
titlecomplete: White Butterfly
characters: Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Historical Fiction, Crime, African American
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: W. W. Norton  Company