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Blonde Faith
Written by Walter Mosley
Narrated by Michael Boatman
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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Easy Rawlins, L.A.'s most reluctant detective, comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of his friend, Christmas Black left on his doorstep. Easy knows that this could only mean that the ex-marine Black is probably dead, or will be soon.
Easter's appearance is only the beginning, as Easy is immersed in a sea of problems. The love of his life is marrying another man and his friend Mouse is wanted for the murder of a father of 12. As he's searching for a clue to Christmas Black's whereabouts, two suspicious MPs hire him to find his friend Black on behalf of the U.S. Army.
Easy's investigation brings him to a blonde woman, Faith Laneer, whose past is as dark as her beauty is bright. As Easy begins to put the pieces together, he realizes that Black's dissappearance has its roots in Vietnam, and that Faith might be in a world of danger.
Easter's appearance is only the beginning, as Easy is immersed in a sea of problems. The love of his life is marrying another man and his friend Mouse is wanted for the murder of a father of 12. As he's searching for a clue to Christmas Black's whereabouts, two suspicious MPs hire him to find his friend Black on behalf of the U.S. Army.
Easy's investigation brings him to a blonde woman, Faith Laneer, whose past is as dark as her beauty is bright. As Easy begins to put the pieces together, he realizes that Black's dissappearance has its roots in Vietnam, and that Faith might be in a world of danger.
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Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley is the author of over twenty critically acclaimed books and his work has been translated into twenty-one languages. His popular mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins began with Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990, which was later made into a film starring Denzel Washington. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he now lives in New York.
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Reviews for Blonde Faith
Rating: 3.745033044370861 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good detective story! Made a lot of real life facts! Left so much to wander about! Crazy ending
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An excellent very well written book. It really paints. a picture of the period.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5great book I love all the books by this author wish there were more!!!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I am a huge Easy Rawlins fan and this story did not disappointment me. Mr. Mosely has the reader enthralled throughout the story, while catching us up on all of our favorite characters, namely Mouse. The mystery is well woven and he throws us a surprise that I'm still not sure I can believe. I'm waiting on the next Easy Rawlins. PLEASE.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I am a huge fan of Walter Mosley's growth as a writer beyond the mystery/crime fiction for which he is best known. But the characterizations in some of his recent work outside this genre has seemed to me a bit thin. Thus it is a pleasure to read this latest installment in the Easy Rawlins mystery series. Here he is working ground on which he is a true master, and this is another in a long string of true masterpieces. This is the eleventh book in the series (10 novels and a book of short stories), and it may not be the best of them. But it masterfully delivers what so many readers have come to admire in Mosley's writing: characters that, for all their flaws and failure, embody human nobility struggling in danger and desperation; subtle, razor-sharp observations on the complexities and contradictions of race and class in American society; and a taut, fast-paced story line that will keep you riveted from the first page to the last. Readers who are not familiar with the series will find this book gripping, but may want to begin with the previous two books -- Little Scarlett and Cinnamon Kiss -- since much of Blonde Faith revolves around Easy's struggle to come to terms with his failed relationship with Bonnie Shay as developed in earlier books.Longtime fans of the series will find it difficult to accept that this book is the end of Easy Rawlins. Mosley has said he is done with Rawlins. "I've got other things to write," he said in an AP interview in November 2007. "I've written 3,000 pages of Easy Rawlins. If you really miss him, go back and reread." Fair enough. Re-reading the series will indeed be a pleasure, and I intend to do so this summer. But I recall an interview that Mosley did with Mark Steiner on WYPR in Baltimore a few years back, and at that time he was imagining Easy Rawlins as an old man. **SPOILER WARNING** Blonde Faith, in any case, leaves the fate of Rawlins quite literally up in the air. His plunge over a cliff in a struggle with his inner demons reminds me of Sherlock Holmes's plunge over the falls with arch nemesis Professor Moriarity. I think we can expect a long hiatus in the series. Surely Walter Mosley has earned it. But even if Mosley believes he is done with Rawlins, I doubt that Rawlins is done with him. Some how, some way, the master black detective will be back.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was the first Easy Rawlins book I've read. It's the tenth in the series, and, perhaps, the last. I could tell that there were many previous situations and interactions amongst the characters, as they were referred to often. That didn't hamper my ability to enjoy reading the book. And I did enjoy it.At first, I couldn't get past the characters' names (Christmas, Easter Dawn, Feather, Chevette, etc.), but I pushed through anyway. Turned out to be a good story, well-written.The year is 1967. Easter Dawn is the eight-year-old adopted Vietnamese daughter of Vietnam vet Christmas Black. Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, private detective, comes home one day and finds her at home, left there with his 11-year-old daughter Feather. Christmas has entrusted his daughter to Easy and has disappeared, along with Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, Easy's best friend. Easy doesn't know where they've gone or what they are up to, but, being the private detective he is, he sets out to find out. Meanwhile, Easy's heart is aching because he had pushed away the love of his life, Bonnie, and cannot ask her to come back to him. The story is set in downtown Los Angeles a couple of years after the Watts riots. There were many references to inequalities between the races. As a white woman, I began to feel quite uncomfortable about the frequency of the comments. I don't think my discomfort was from "white guilt." I think Mosley just overdid it. Also, Rawlins was constantly wanting to kill when he got angry with someone. He would stop himself from killing, but his initial desire to kill, kill, kill made me think Easy was weak, rather than strong. Perhaps, though, this is the initial urge that some men feel when they are frustrated, ticked off and angry, but they learn to work things out.I read the book straight through, only putting it down when I absolutely needed to. I'd like to read the other Easy Rawlins books in the series. This one was well-thought through and executed, and put me right back in the 1960s.