num_pages: 320
description: Walter Mosleys indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve.Picking up where Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s Ezekiel Easy Rawlins finds his life in transition. Hes ready tofinallypropose to his girlfriend Bonnie Shay and start a life together. And hes taken the money he got from the Rose Gold case and has together with two partners started a new detective agency. But inevitably a case gets in the way: Easys friend Mouse introduces him to Rufus Tyler a very old man everyone calls Charcoal Joe. Joes friends son Seymour (young bright top of his class at Stanford) has been arrested and charged with the murder of a white man from Redondo Beach. Rufus tells Easy he will pay and pay well to see his nephew exonerated but seeing as how Seymour was literally found standing over the mans dead body at his cabin home and the racially charged motives behind it that might prove to be a tall order.Between his new company a heart that should be broken but is not a whole raft of new bad guys on his tail and a bad odor that surrounds Charcoal Joe Easy has his hands full his horizons askew and a life in shambles on the ground around his feet.
language: English
title: Charcoal Joe
publisher: Doubleday