Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Easy Rawlings is a private detective in Los Angeles. He is black and it is sixties; so he is a rarity. It begins with Easy waking up after being in a car crash that nearly kills him (except everybody thought he was dead). He is asked by his friend and sidekick, Mouse to locate the son of a friend

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who disappeared after taking acid. What follows his Easy trying to investigate while dealing with his sore body, someone else living in his home, the aftermath of the Watt Riots and hippies galore.

Walter Mosley takes the reader back to the sixties with such a descriptive narrative and Easy is no superman but a guy trying to make a living and survive. I found it to be more than a mystery novel, I found it to be a study of what it was like living in that era. I got so absorbed in the culture and the story that I found myself finishing the book quickly. I enjoyed it this one very much.

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I did not realize how much I missed Easy Rawlins and his motley crew until I started reading the spellbinding first page of this well-plotted novel of gritty action and emotional fallout of secrets and bad decisions. The book opens with Easy waking from a coma caused by a bad accident in a

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dream-like state physically weak but knowing that he needs to keep moving forward if he is to survive. Mosley’s skill with characterization shines through as whom else but Raymond “Mouse” Alexander would be the one to not only find Easy but to ease him back into the living world – their connection to each other is soul-deep and profound. As Easy ventures out to find a young black man, Evander “Little Green” Noon who has last seen in the “hippie” section of L.A., the story twists and turns to reveal there is much more than what meets the eye. With a strong supporting cast with the likes of Mama Jo, Jackson Blue, Feather and Jesus, the story is told in the moment with flashbacks which resurrects old ghosts and stirs up old memories, as the changing times of 1967 brings new hope for harmony, yet often enough the ugly truths show that often justice is behind the times. The trademark dry humor, the keen understanding of 1967 L.A., the charismatic characters makes this an entertaining novel with heart and chutzpah. This is a great series that leaves the reader desperate for the next book.

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Walter Mosley is always an easy and enjoyable read. In Little Green, Easy has just come out of a coma after a tragic auto accident and his friend Mouse asks him to find the son, Evander, of a friend of his. Of course this raises Easy's low spirits and puts him on the fast track to recovery.

Along

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the way, he encounters drugs, extortion, murder and more.

A great mystery beach read.

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It's been awhile since Mosley has published a written an Easy Rawlins mystery. Easy is back, almost from the dead. He's helping his friend find a young man who is missing. It's 1967 and the hippies and racist cops abound. The hippies are into their drugs and the cops are uneasy after the Watts

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riots. Even with the racism, Easy experiences he remains a classy man who is concerned about the welfare of others. The missing person case turns into the theft of money from a drug buy and it becomes dangerous but Easy survives and justice is served.

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I read this because Walter Mosley was highlighted on NPR one morning, just in the aftermath of the police killings of black men, Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Mosley writes as Easy, a private eye, who cracks typical cases in LA in the sixties. But Easy is a black man, and so especially in the

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sixties has certain racist obstacles to surmount, sometimes in the guise of suspicious police, sometimes as racist bar owners. It is amazing that so many of these actions are still echoed today, but it was also wonderful to read of hippie free love and it's sense of equality between all being lived.

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My forast Easy Rawlins read. Great writing and characters but too many of them. Usually a good story but it went on a tangent toward the middle of the book. Great look at late 60's LA through a black man's experience. Easy and Mouse combined would have been Travis McGee. Started out a 4 but became

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a little convoluted. I'll certainly try another one

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I've been reading Easy Rawlins for some 20 years now. I read the first book in one sitting staying up all night in bed with the light down low. This one took me a couple of days but it was just as good as ever.

After convalescing for two months from injuries sustained in a near fatal auto crash, Easy is asked by Mouse to find young Evander Noon who was last heard of in the company of hippies on the Sunset Strip. Evander (Little Green) has been inadvertently involved in a drug heist gone bad.
Easy Rawlins,

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with the help of Mouse and Mama Jo's Gator Blood restorative finds and helps Little Green. Bonnie comes back into his life and Easy has recovered his moral and physical strength.

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Easy has been yanked back from the brink of death (or maybe actually from across the threshold) by Mouse, and Mama Jo, and others who care deeply about him. But he isn't too keen on living these days. The life he nearly left behind (in [Blonde Faith]) was in shambles, and he could only think of one

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way to fix it. Now, he wakes to a request from Mouse that he try to find out what happened to Little Green Noon, a young man whose mother is distraught at his disappearance into the hippy culture of the Sunset Strip. Only for Mouse would Easy take this on in his current state, and he isn't sure he won't still want to check out for good once the job is done. But we know that's not how things will turn out. Too many people love him, and he's never let them down yet.

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