Audio Renaissance has followed suit with new audio productions of the novels. 171 books based on 66 votes: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely, A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley, Little Sc. (July)įYI: When Little, Brown published Mosley's latest Easy Rawlins Mystery (īad Boy Brawly Brown ) in July, it also reissued and repackaged six other Easy Rawlins novels. In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth, has kidnapped Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer, from her dorm at UC Santa Barbara. With a little more attention in the post–production phase, this fine, nine-hour foray into drama, intrigue, sex, hustling and murder could have been great. However, the narration is riddled with so many small but distracting errors and slight misreadings that it shatters the suspension of disbelief. Easy Rawlins has taken a job as head custodian in a Los Angeles school. With a voice that has the gravel of Jack Webb (minus the stiffness) and the confidence of Morgan Freeman, Weinberger takes listeners on what should be a smooth and exhilarating ride. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of A Little Yellow Dog. Mosley is a master of dialogue and his quick-witted narrative is full of Chandler-esque twists. When the police suspect him of murder, he relies on his old street connections to help him out. Tired of the street life, ex-hustler Rawlins has carved out a life on the straight and narrow, working for a public school and trying to raise his two adopted children. In this fifth installment in the Easy Rawlins series, Mosley has allowed his character to evolve with age (the first book in the series took place in the mid-'40s).

'You had to kill someone white to get any kind of news splash in the '60s,' Easy Rawlins says of Los Angeles.