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Set in 1968, MWA Grand Master Mosley’s excellent 14th Easy Rawlins mystery(after 2014’s Rose Gold) finds the favor-dealing L.A. PI working as a partner inthe WRENS-L Detective Agency, which combines his initials with those of histwo partners. A dangerous friend of Easy’s, Raymond “Mouse” Alexander,introduces him to Rufus “Charcoal Joe” Tyler, who wants Easy to clear SeymourBrathwaite, a 22-year-old doctor of physics doing postgraduate work at UCLA.Seymour was arrested on …

One of the great things about independent presses is that they are often the first to bring new or emerging voices to market. Craig T. McNeely’s Double Life Press is one such indy press, fairly new to the game, and already putting out established authors who I love, such as Will Viharo. Double Life’s newest release, A Negro and an Ofay, by debut author Danny Gardner, is sure to impress with its heavy cultural subtext.Set in the post-WWII 1950’s midwest, A Negro and an Ofay is, as the tagline rea …