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Gray Dawn
An Easy Rawlins Mystery
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Formats and Prices
- On Sale
- Sep 16, 2025
- Page Count
- 432 pages
- Publisher
- Mulholland Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780316596954
Price
$31.00Price
$41.00 CADFormat
Format:
- Trade Paperback (Large Print) $31.00 $41.00 CAD
- ebook $14.99 $19.99 CAD
- Hardcover $29.00 $38.00 CAD
- Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $27.99
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In this thrilling mystery from “master of craft and narrative” Walter Mosley (National Book Foundation), Detective Easy Rawlins has settled into the happy rhythm of his new life when a dark siren from his past returns and threatens to destroy the peace he’s fought for.
The name Easy Rawlins stirs excitement in the hearts of readers and fear in the hearts of his foes. His success has bought him a thriving detective agency, with its first female detective; a remote home, shared with children and pets and lovers, high atop the hills overlooking gritty Los Angeles; and more trouble, more problems, and more threats to those he loves. In other words, he’s still beset on all sides.
Rising in the city’s criminal underground is a woman cannier than any card shark or kingpin, a woman feared by all, threatening the businesses of all, whom Easy must quickly locate and neutralize. She goes by the name Lutisha, but Easy will recognize her as the woman who set his entire adult life into motion. Nineteen-seventies Los Angeles is a transient city of delicate, violent balances, and Lutisha has upended that. She also has a secret that will upend Easy’s own life, painfully close to home.
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"One of the many pleasures of Mr. Mosley’s series is seeing how Easy’s tolerance and understanding mature—even as his personal code of honor remains as solid as ever.”Wall Street Journal
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“Gray Dawn,” the 17th book starring the genre-changing detective, finds him tasked with finding a domestic worker named Lutisha James, only to find a murder, and then another, instead. Los Angeles in the 1970s serves as the book’s evocative backdrop."Washington Post
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“For crime readers, a new Easy Rawlins novel is one of the big events of late summer / early fall. In the new installment, Easy is at the head of his own detective agency and thriving in 1970s LA. Mosley has more than earned his reputation as the ultimate craftsman – his language is precise, evocative, and poetic, and his stories challenge and satisfy in equal measure.”CrimeReads
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“Mosley’s moving author’s note implores readers to see this work as a reminder of the ongoing toxicity of segregation, lynchings, and generations of casual hatred. In Mosley’s masterful hands, this is a portal to Los Angeles streets and their vastly different worlds, communities born of disadvantage, and mysteries that highlight universal truths. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Easy Rawlins fans are primed as this epic series hones its edge.”Booklist, Starred Review
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“The redoubtable, unstoppable Easy Rawlins has more on his plate than usual in the 17th novel of this epoch-spanning—and epoch-making—series of detective fiction…By now, it’s tempting to take Mosley’s inimitable blend of taut lyricism and evocative landscapes for granted. Don’t.”Kirkus Reviews
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“[Mosley’s] stirring prose and vivid evocation of 1970s L.A. carry the day, and Easy himself is as charming as ever. Series fans will find plenty to enjoy.”Publishers Weekly
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