Farewell, Amethystine

<p><b><h2> IN THE LATEST INSTALLMENT OF THE ACCLAIMED EASY RAWLINS SERIES, </b><b>EASY IS SENT DOWN MEMORY LANE... BLINDING HIM TO REASON AND RISK, </b><b>MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE ANYTHING BUT BLACK AND WHITE. </h2></b><br><br>****<br>January 1970. Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, LA''s premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations. A loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency: all is right with the world.<br><br>When Amethystine Stoller - his own personal Helen of Troy - arrives, seeking answers about her ex-husband''s disappearance, Easy wants to believe he has a simple case on his hands.<br><br>But the investigation sends him on a trip down memory lane: haunted by loss, love, and a hunger that has eaten at him since he was a Black boy on his own on the streets of Fifth Ward, Houston, Texas.<br><br>As the case becomes personal, Easy faces a reckoning. A new decade brings with it new expectations: men and women, Black and White, and wrong or right. To save his soul and solve the case, Easy has a big choice to make... <br><br><br><i>****<br></i><br><b>PRAISE FOR WALTER MOSLEY:</b><br><br>''Simply the best crime writer around today.'' <br><i><b>GAURDIAN</b></i><br><br><b><i>''</i></b>There are few writers within the crime genre who recreate time and place with Mosley''s effortless exactness, even fewer who can replicate his masterfully sustained sense of danger.'' <br><i><b>SUNDAY TIMES</b></i><br><br><b><i>''</i></b>This is classic noir territory, filled with unintentional heroes with the best intentions and dangerous dames . . . A class act.''<br><i><b>TIME OUT</b></i><br><br> ''It''s Mosley''s signature style-rough-hewn, rhythmic, and lyrical-that makes you ready and eager for whatever he''s serving up...Let the good times roll.''<br><i><b>KIRKUS REVIEWS</b></i><br><br>''A mystery master.''<br><i><b>WASHINGTON POST</b></i></p>