Bad Boy Brawly Brown (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)

Walter Mosley · first published 1900 · ISBN 9780316073011

Part of Mosley's acclaimed Easy Rawlins series, this hardboiled mystery follows the detective through the streets of postwar Los Angeles, specifically the Watts neighborhood where he navigates racial tensions and urban crime. The narrative captures the challenges facing African Americans in 1950s California through Rawlins's investigations. Mosley employs period detail and moral ambiguity characteristic of noir fiction.