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In the 17 mysteries in the series, Easy Rawlins has given readers a front-row seat to author Walter Mosley's vision of L.A.'s evolution. Easy navigates the social shifts in Mosley's latest book, "Gray ...

Famed fiction author Walter Mosley sits down with TODAY’s Craig Melvin to share details about his latest book in the Easy Rawlins series called “Gray Dawn.” Mosley opens up about the characters in his ...

For more than three decades, Walter Mosley has been one of the widest-ranging and most interesting of American writers. Mosley has published science fiction and erotica, nonfiction and children’s ...

It’s 1970 in Los Angeles, and Easy Rawlins has come a long way since Walter Mosley launched his series about this Black private detective with “Devil in a Blue Dress.” In that first novel, published ...

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

Easy Rawlins isn't dead after all. When last seen, Walter Mosley's emotionally wounded detective was driving his car off a cliff on California's Highway 1. That was in 2007's "Blonde Faith," and the ...

Walter Mosley evokes the curious turns of the Patty Hearst kidnapping saga and the fractured culture of that era in Rose Gold, his latest Easy Rawlins crime thriller. Rawlins, a black private ...

Set in L.A. during the height of the Vietnam War, Mosley’s impressive 13th Easy Rawlins mystery (after 2013’s Little Green) finds Roger Frisk, special assistant to the police chief, calling on Easy ...

Dressed in black from head to toe, author Walter Mosley stood out easily against the rich tones of the Mandarin Oriental’s lobby and its equally overhued patrons. As he walked toward me, ebony fedora ...