Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced digital copy of this book in exchange for a review. Here is my review:

This somehow got overlooked in my TBR stack and I am SO SORRY that it did, because I LOVED it!! Easy Rawlins is always a good read and this one was no exception. His observations of the everyday life of black Americans in the real world is very eye-opening, especially in these current days of unrest across our Nation.

Rose Gold (Rosemary Goldsmith) has been kidnapped, but no one knows it. Two high-level police officers visit Easy at his home and hire him to find her, refusing to tell him who is paying, but offering a large sum of money. Easy, who is in some financial difficulty, accepts the job, but is soon lost in the missing details. Her father will not even admit she has been kidnapped, her mother is hiding out somewhere, and the man the police are charging is probably innocent of the whole thing.

Easy works through the case with the help of his friends, some of them not exactly law-abiding, and finally finds the truth and returns Rose Gold to her family. This is not a spoiler, because his journey to the truth is the whole story

This really is another good book with Easy Rawlins, why change. Now set in the time of Patty Hearst Easy can cross the line and hopefully get the information he needs to help the investigation. If you have read the other books it follows along those same lines. Mr. Mosley now has Easy going through Ventura and Ventura County, and though it has changed since the 70’s he makes you feel like you are back in time. That is what I like about his writing and about this character. I have nothing bad to say only that it is a good story with fantastic characters which I think he must have known some people like some of the characters he comes up with because they are so real and down to earth, or just hard core when he needs them to be. Another great book about Easy Rawlins.