{"id":41590,"date":"2026-05-26T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41590"},"modified":"2026-05-25T17:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:01:52","slug":"farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41590","title":{"rendered":"FAREWELL, AMETHYSTINE : AN EASY RAWLINS MYSTERY by Walter Mosley \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4mBT0Y5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z052526zview_farewell_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"773\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4f7sDsq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FAREWELL, AMETHYSTINE : AN EASY RAWLINS MYSTERY<\/a> by Walter Mosley<\/p>\n<p>First sentences&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Naw, naw, man.\u00a0 They wanna kick her outta that school because she a Black woman want the Constitution to practice what it preach.\u00a0 All kinda white revolutionaries and, and, and activist teachers up there at UCLA and they don&#8217;t make a peep about them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monday morning.\u00a0 Ezekiel \u201cEasy\u201d Rawlins is chatting with his buddies when she comes in.\u00a0 She is\u00a0Amethystine Stoller, an extremely beautiful, young black woman. Amethystine wants to hire Easy to find her missing ex-husband.\u00a0 Her ex, Curtis Fields is an accountant.\u00a0 He&#8217;s also white.\u00a0 An interracial couple, even in 1970, still raises a lot of eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Easy feels an immediate attraction to Amethystine.\u00a0 He also doesn&#8217;t trust her.\u00a0 Two reasons not to take the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he does.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Easy finds Curtis&#8217; dead body, things get complicated.\u00a0 Curtis was involved with gangsters, gamblers, blackmail and corrupt politicians. Easy tries to reach his buddy on the LAPD, Detective Melvin Suggs,\u00a0 but he&#8217;s surprised to find Suggs is also missing.\u00a0 Suggs&#8217; wife has been implicated in a blackmail murder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Easy follows the clues, he realizes that the cases may be related and the corruption runs deep.\u00a0 Easy is going to need backup, so he reaches out to his friend, Fearless Jones.\u00a0 Together, Easy and Fearless will follow the clues that take them deep into LA&#8217;s dangerous underbelly where murders, double-crosses and blackmail are the norm.<\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p>This is Walter Mosley&#8217;s sixteenth Easy Rawlins novel.\u00a0 They never disappoint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAREWELL, AMETHYSTINE : AN EASY RAWLINS MYSTERY by Walter Mosley First sentences&#8230; &#8220;Naw, naw, man.\u00a0 They wanna kick her outta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,51,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-crime","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41733,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41590\/revisions\/41733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}