BLOOD GROVE: AN EASY RAWLINS MYSTERY by Walter Mosley / Z-View
BLOOD GROVE by Walter Mosley
First sentence…
I looked down from the third-floor office window onto the hastily built greenhouse in our back-fence neighbor’s yard.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Easy Rawlins is at his desk when a man enters the small office. Easy has seen the look of a shell-shocked soldier before. He’s seeing it again. The man’s name is Craig Kilian. Kilian’s a white man who wants to hire Easy. Even in 1969, that’s not an everyday occurrence.
Kilian wants Easy to find out if Kilian murdered a man. He thinks he did. Kilian and a beautiful woman were alone in a citrus grove when a stranger attacked. Kilian thinks in the struggle he stabbed the man. Killed him dead. Yet when Kilian came to the woman was gone. So was the man he stabbed.
Easy feels sorry for the battle fatigued vet so he takes the case.
As Easy follows the clues, it becomes a tangled mess involving missing money, a sociopathic killer, cops and grifters.
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I’m a Walter Mosley fan. His Easy Rawlins tales are the best. BLOOD GROVE is no exception. If you’ve followed Mr. Mosley’s career, you’ll enjoy appearances in this one by Mouse Alexander, Fearless Jones, Jackson Blue and Christmas Black.
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