I'm in the process of collecting all of Walter Mosley's "Easy Rawlins" series. I have no problem with second hand books, long as they're not too shabby. Now as far as the story is concerned it will be the next one I read, since I've already read at least 8 "Easy Rawlins," and not necessarily in order. I know I'll enjoy it as I'm a big fan.

At first I thought, it’s not about catching some pervy serial killer, it’s about the protagonist confronting his own part in maintaining and reproducing the ubiquitous male violence against women, both threatened and actual. I was like, this is like Oedipus ; I was like, this is a sledgehammer blow to the patriarchy right in the shins! I was like, and it’s got soul. But then Mouse shows up and Everything is just too Everything and you can’t get close to justice and maybe the best you can hope fo...

Author Walter Mosley proves successful at displaying his literary talents in the mystery, White Butterfly. Readers are transfixed into the bustling life of Ezekial “Easy” Rawlins as he forges a quest for a serial killer, in this exhilarating third installment into the Easy Rawlins mystery series. What he experiences will be unforeseen and come at a high cost.The year is 1956 and Easy is settled peacefully at home in Los Angeles with his family, when he is unexpectedly visited and appealed by the...

My friends, this is why I review. Because some day, in a mere ten years, I'm going to innocently pick up this book and think, "hey, I should give this a try." About twenty pages in, I realized I had already read White Butterfly. I peeked at the resolution, and sure enough, I was right. Although, quite honestly, I'm glad of the chance to read it again, to linger on Mosley's language and characters. This was prickly period perfection.White Butterfly is set in a middle chapter in Easy's life; his l...

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Though Devil in a Blue Dress and A Red Death are great reads which stand apart from other books in the genre, White Butterfly might be the finest of the early stories featuring Easy Rawlins, for my money. Like Ross Macdonald, Walter Mosley weaves a tapestry of pain and heartache and human frailty into White Butterfly. Along the way we get to revisit the friendship of Mouse and Easy, and again Mosley puts a spotlight on the degrees of right and wrong.Black girls are getting murdered at an alarmin...

White Butterfly is my favorite installment of the Easy Rawlins series so far. In this one Mosley gives the reader a much better glimpse into Easy's personal life. We get to see just how much damage has been done to Easy over his lifetime of simply being a Black man. Easy, like so many others fleeing the smothering oppression of blackness in the south has built a life in California, but he still has baggage that makes him keep his business to himself. Easy and his new wife Regina have a marriage

Easy is approached by the police in Los Angeles, looking for a killer of young women. Three Black girls, and now a white girl, were killed in the same fashion. The cops want Easy to use his common man approach to go where the police can't.One interesting fact: Easy uses the alias "Eugene Tooms" in the story, and I wondered where I'd heard it before. The novel was written in '92, and used in a couple of episodes of The X Files for the shape shifter Tooms in '94/

I was introduced to Easy Rawlins by the movie "Devil in a Blue Dress" with Denzel Washington (and oh yeah, the then-unknown Don Cheadle), so of course I started reading the books. Now, years later, I'm going back to read them in order and catch the early ones I missed. After having mixed feelings about Mosley's second Rawlins novel, A Red Death, feeling like it wasn't up to the standards of his later books, I'm happy he hit his stride with White Butterfly - a really enjoyable noir-type mystery.

This is another epic book in the series of Easy Rawlins. I love everything about Easy and the characters throughout the book. I just feel so connected to the story. I find myself in detective mode wanting to help Easy solve each crime. Easy is so Smooth and yet he is so Raw. I am listening to the audio because I need the full effect of his voice and his every move. Moving on to book 4.

White Butterfly is the third book in the Easy Rawlins series set in post-war Los Angeles. In this outing Easy is hustled by the police into helping to track down a serial killer preying on women in the city. It’s the most personal of the books so far in the series, as much about his private home life and him as a person as it is about the case (the first focused more on his history and social circle, the second on his business interests). Easy is a conflicted, flawed, complex character, with sec...

A compelling read - Easy Rawlins is a flawed man who nevertheless strives to do the right thing. But "right" is a mutable concept. It doesn't help that the LAPD begrudgingly enlist his assistance when they have a case they can't crack. I could read Mosley's conflicted love letter to L.A. and Rawlins' insights about how we treat each other, along racialized and gendered lines, all day.

The spot light on her was in the shape of a butterfly against the black back drop. The White Butterfly.

These novels are so paced and Easy is definitely a conpmlicated man. This one was not as good as the first two books but it's cool enough. And Easy gets his just due...lol

Welcome to the third Easy Rawlins novel, in which you will find the racial comments and comparisons coming even further to the foreground and Easy Rawlins finds new and interesting ways to mess up his happy existence. Ahhh noir, thoroughly depressing yet incredibly enjoyable to read.Easy Rawlins really is a bastard at least half of the time but Mosley manages to create not an anti-hero but a real man with major faults yet prone to major kindness and trying to do the right thing for/by other peop...

Very enjoyable series with an interesting main character and plot.

Actually 4.75 stars L.A. police Quinten Naylor detective is an outcast, he's too white for the black population and too black for the white population so when he's charged with solving the case of a string of murdered black women, he's on his own. Quinten knows if anybody can help its Easy Rawlins because Easy just has a way with people, not to mention a quick mind that can cut through deception quickly. Easy knows what's coming the minute Quinten stops by for a visit ending a quiet day at home

As with Black Betty, Walter Mosley is superb at writing dialogue, character, and hard-luck situations. His straightforward, unsentimental style is a great fit for his frequent commentary on race relations in Los Angeles (or America as a whole) in the 1950s. In my experience, white people who think that black people should "speak 'proper' English" or, living in poverty, should "just pull themselves up by their bootstraps" tend to shut down when the person telling them why this is ignorant shows a...

Easy Rawlin's has been 'tasked' aka blackmailed into helping the police find a killer of women (the police didn't care until the third killing; a white woman) if Easy doesn't help, his crazy killing friend Mouse will be jailed. Easy is married with two kids and just wants to chill but the po po wont let him be. Easy does, what Easy does and we're taken on a journey through the streets of Los Angeles in 1956 while Easy turns over stones, uncovers secrets and kicks ass to track down a killer(s) wh...

Enjoyable read. Definitely more of a character study than a detective model. Helping to solve a murder is just one more thing going on the continuing life of Easy Rawlins.