With each succeeding mystery featuring his reluctant detective Easy Rawlins, Walter Mosely gains new fans and builds on what is now recognized as a permanent addition to American crime writing. 1964: Easy has given up the street life and has taken on a job as a supervising custodian at Sojourner Truth High School. But his newly found careful lifestyle is threatened when two corpses are discovered at the school, and the police think Easy is involved.

November 1963: Easy's settled into a steady gig as a school custodian. It's a quiet, simple existence -- but a few moments of ecstasy with a sexy teacher will change all that. When the lady vanishes, Easy's stuck with a couple of corpses, the cops on his back, and a little yellow dog who's nobody's best friend. With his not-so-simple past snapping at his heels, and with enemies old and new looking to get even, Easy must kiss his careful little life good-bye -- and step closer to the edge....

From "Devil in a Blue Dress" to "Black Betty," New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley has achieved "vibrant, entertaining and tightly plotted suspense novels, " says Peter Handel of the San Francisco Chronicle. Now Mosley, and his reluctant P.I. Easy Rawlins, return to the edgy, racially charged streets of Los Angeles in this dazzling bestseller by a "master of mystery"