Little Scarlet
Walter Mosley · first published 2004 · ISBN 9780316073032
Easy Rawlins takes a case during the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles. Hired to find a missing woman, he navigates the chaos of the uprising and confronts the racial violence tearing his city apart, discovering that personal mysteries and historical catastrophe are inseparable.
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The Best Crime Novels of the 2000s
Mosley's Easy Rawlins series anchors crime fiction in African American experience and history. Little Scarlet, set during the riots, proves the series can tackle America's racial reckoning while delivering a compelling noir investigation.
Easy Rawlins Books in Order
Places Easy at the center of one of America's defining racial uprisings, with the riots as more than backdrop.