White Butterfly by Walter Mosley audiobook

White Butterfly

By Walter Mosley
Read by Michael Boatman

Audible 9780743451772

The Easy Rawlins Mysteries: Book 3

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 2 Formats: CD
  • 2 Formats: Library CD

  • ISBN: 9798228857681

  • ISBN: 9798228857704

Runtime: 7.05 Hours
Category: Fiction/Mystery & Detective
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

The police don’t show up on Easy Rawlins’ doorstep until the third girl dies. It’s Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: “I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto.”

But Easy turns them down. He’s married now, a father—and his detective days are over. Then a white college coed dies the same brutal death, and the cops put the heat on Easy: If he doesn’t help, his best friend is headed for jail. So Easy is back, walking the midnight streets of Watts and the darker, twisted avenues of a cunning killer’s mind.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“With White Butterfly, Walter Mosley has established himself as one of America’s best mystery writers.” — New York Times Book Review
"Wonderful page-turning excitement…Like Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, and others, Mosley has been reconstructing the hard-boiled tradition from the bottom up….Easy Rawlins moves through mean streets even Marlowe wouldn’t walk.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Crackles with the suspense and wit of vintage Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, but its keen commentaries on racial issues make it a vital piece of modern fiction…Mosley has earned a place among contemporary masters of crime fiction.” —Boston Sunday Herald

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Author

Author Bio: Walter Mosley

Author Bio: Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley is one of America’s most celebrated writers. He was given the 2020 National Book Award’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, and honored with the Anisfield-Wolf Award, a Grammy Award, a PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, the Robert Kirsch Award, numerous Edgar Awards, and several NAACP Image Awards. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages. He has published fiction and nonfiction in the New Yorker, Playboy, and The Nation. As an executive producer, he adapted his novel The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey for AppleTV+. He co-wrote the adaptation of his novel The Man in My Basement to stream on Hulu, and he served as a writer and executive producer for FX’s Snowfall.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD
Category: Fiction/Mystery & Detective
Runtime: 7.05
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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