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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 …

Easy Rawlins, who once spanned years between volumes, takes his third case of 1967. Or rather, his third batch of cases.What are the odds that the LAPD would not only press Easy (Little Green, 2013, etc.) to take a job, but offer to pay him for it? But that’s exactly what Roger Frisk, special assistant to the chief of police, does. If Easy will look for international weapons manufacturer Foster Goldsmith’s daughter, Rosemary, who’s gone missing from UC Santa Barbara, Frisk will pay him $6,000, w …