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Charcoal Joe (2016)

por Walter Mosley

Séries: Fearless Jones (4), Easy Rawlins (14)

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Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. Mystery. HTML:Walter Mosley??s indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to  solve.

Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel ??Easy? Rawlins finds his life in transition. He??s ready??finally??to propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, and start a life together. And he??s taken the money he got from the Rose Gold case and, together with two partners, Saul Lynx and Tinsford ??Whisper? Natly, has started a new detective agency. But, inevitably, a case gets in the way: Easy??s friend Mouse introduces him to Rufus Tyler, a very old man everyone calls Charcoal Joe. Joe??s friend??s son, Seymour (young, bright, top of his class in physics at Stanford), has been arrested and charged with the murder of a white man from Redondo Beach. Joe tells Easy he will pay and pay well to see this young man exonerated, but seeing as how Seymour literally was found standing over the man??s dead body at his cabin home, and considering the racially charged motives seemingly behind the murder, that might prove to be a tall order.
     Between his new company, a heart that should be broken but is not, a whole raft of new bad guys on his tail, and a bad odor that surrounds Charcoal Joe, Easy has his hands full, his horizons askew, an
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I was first introduced to the author with his most recent book, "John Woman" which was unique, engaging and creative. Having read/seen "Devil in a Blue Dress" I was familiar with Easy Rawlins, though this story pales in comparison. For those that enjoy detective stories, its quite possible you'll enjoy it however. My personal preference is characters of depth, unexpected plot twists, a dab of humor and unusual storytelling, none of which are utilized in this book. ( )
  Jonathan5 | Feb 20, 2023 |
Charcoal Joe calls on Easy Rawlins to get Seymour, a young PhD student, off on a murder charge that they know he did not commit. Easy agrees but he stumbles into more than murder. Who all is involved? Who is the murderer?

This is the first Easy Rawlins Mystery I read. I liked it a lot. I've been meaning to read this series and I am glad I did. Easy is fairly laid back. He's smart. He still gets into trouble but is able to get himself out of the trouble. I liked his daughter Feather. I also liked his partners, Saul and Whisper. They seem to bring down the bad guys and save the good ones.

I'll be looking forward to reading more of Easy and his people. ( )
  Sheila1957 | Jul 17, 2022 |
Guess I am a bit of an outlier on this one. I love the Ezekiel (Easy) Porterhouse Rawlins character: he is dependable, hard working, unbiased, with a strong, unwavering moral compass despite the unbalanced L.A. world in which he lives. He has friends in all walks of life. Just as his life is settling down, with a new detective agency with two partners, and about to propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, in comes his best friend Ray Alexander (Mouse.) Mouse wants Easy to help free a young black scholar from jail, arrested for being at the scene of a double murder, at the request of an aging jailed gangster, Charcoal Joe. Of course, things get very messy as Easy investigates: family, lovers, crooks, cops, etc. My problem with this book was it was way too complicated and there were too many characters to follow. Back to basics with #15, I hope. ( )
  skipstern | Jul 11, 2021 |
Easy Rawlins has been hired by Mouse to prove Seymour Brathwaite, a young physicist and the son of Rufus (Charcoal Joe) Tyler's friend Jasmine, innocent of murder . Charcoal Joe's reputation is on a par with Raymond (Mouse) Alexander, but he has a certain respect for Easy: "You one'a the most dangerous men in Southern California.....You got Saul Lynx and Whisper Natly in the office with you. Raymond Alexander willing to kill for you and you don't even know it. There's Melvin Suggs, special assistant to Chief Reddin, and then there's Fearless Jones, Christmas Black, that insurance millionaire got the whole French Foreign Legion at his beck and call. And if that wasn't bad enough I hear one'a your friends is that crazy Indian, Redbird. I had a business associate once sent five men after that red man – they never even found one finger."
Easy has established a detective agency, WRENS-L, and has partnered with Saul Lynx and Tinsford (Whisper) Natty. Subplots of the novel deal with investigations handled by Easy's partners but the main story is that of relationships, deceit, murder and betrayal: all deftly and powerfully written by Mosley.
  RonWelton | Apr 12, 2021 |
I've been reading about Easy Rawlins for over 20 years, ever since Bill Clinton first flagged him up, and we're kind of growing old together. Set just around the time I was born, Rawlins here is the same age as I am now.

As complexly plotted as ever, Charcoal Joe finds Easy establishing himself (finally) as a licensed private detective, and this story revisits almost the entire cast of supporting characters from the last 20 years. It starts with Mouse, which is never a good place to start, and takes in Bonnie and Jackson Blue, Mama Jo and Melvin Suggs with a nice crossover from Fearless Jones. Mosley is playing his greatest hits here and the crowd loves it.

I stayed up all night to finish Devil in a Blue Dress back in 1996. This time around, I went to sleep in the middle, but my reading experience was just as fresh and as thrilling as the first time. ( )
  asxz | Mar 13, 2019 |
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Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. Mystery. HTML:Walter Mosley??s indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to  solve.

Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel ??Easy? Rawlins finds his life in transition. He??s ready??finally??to propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, and start a life together. And he??s taken the money he got from the Rose Gold case and, together with two partners, Saul Lynx and Tinsford ??Whisper? Natly, has started a new detective agency. But, inevitably, a case gets in the way: Easy??s friend Mouse introduces him to Rufus Tyler, a very old man everyone calls Charcoal Joe. Joe??s friend??s son, Seymour (young, bright, top of his class in physics at Stanford), has been arrested and charged with the murder of a white man from Redondo Beach. Joe tells Easy he will pay and pay well to see this young man exonerated, but seeing as how Seymour literally was found standing over the man??s dead body at his cabin home, and considering the racially charged motives seemingly behind the murder, that might prove to be a tall order.
     Between his new company, a heart that should be broken but is not, a whole raft of new bad guys on his tail, and a bad odor that surrounds Charcoal Joe, Easy has his hands full, his horizons askew, an

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