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Walter Mosley’s indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve.
Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins finds his life in transition. He’s ready—finally—to propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, and start a life together. And he’s taken the money he got from the Rose Gold case and, together with two partners, Saul Lynx and Tinsford “Whisper” Natly, has started a new detective agency. But, inevitably, a case gets in the way: Easy’s friend Mouse introduces him to Rufus Tyler, a very old man everyone calls Charcoal Joe. Joe’s friend’s son, Seymour (young, bright, top of his class in physics at Stanford), has been arrested and charged with the murder of a white man from Redondo Beach. Joe tells Easy he will pay and pay well to see this young man exonerated, but seeing as how Seymour literally was found standing over the man’s dead body at his cabin home, and considering the racially charged motives seemingly behind the murder, 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 his life in shambles around his feet.
Genre: Mystery
Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins finds his life in transition. He’s ready—finally—to propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, and start a life together. And he’s taken the money he got from the Rose Gold case and, together with two partners, Saul Lynx and Tinsford “Whisper” Natly, has started a new detective agency. But, inevitably, a case gets in the way: Easy’s friend Mouse introduces him to Rufus Tyler, a very old man everyone calls Charcoal Joe. Joe’s friend’s son, Seymour (young, bright, top of his class in physics at Stanford), has been arrested and charged with the murder of a white man from Redondo Beach. Joe tells Easy he will pay and pay well to see this young man exonerated, but seeing as how Seymour literally was found standing over the man’s dead body at his cabin home, and considering the racially charged motives seemingly behind the murder, 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 his life in shambles around his feet.
Genre: Mystery
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Hardback Editions
August 2016 : USA Library Binding
June 2016 : UK Hardback
June 2016 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
June 2017 : UK Paperback
May 2017 : USA Paperback
Audio Editions
September 2016 : UK Audio CD
Title: Charcoal Joe
Author(s): Walter Mosley
ISBN: 1-78433-895-8 / 978-1-78433-895-4 (UK edition)
Publisher: Oakhill Publishing Limited
Availability: Amazon UK
June 2016 : UK Audio edition

Title: Charcoal Joe: Easy Rawlins 14
Author(s): Walter Mosley
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Limited
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June 2016 : Australia Audio edition

Title: Charcoal Joe: Easy Rawlins, 14
Author(s): Walter Mosley
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Limited
Availability: Amazon AU
June 2016 : USA Audio CD
June 2016 : USA Audio edition

Title: Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Author(s): Walter Mosley
Publisher: Random House Audio
Availability: Amazon
June 2016 : Canada Audio edition

Title: Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Author(s): Walter Mosley
Publisher: Random House Audio
Availability: Amazon CA
Kindle Editions
June 2016 : Australia, UK Kindle edition
June 2016 : USA, Canada Kindle edition