Book
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- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection (3 copies)
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- OSHTEMO: Adult Stacks
Blood grove
Call Number
- MYSTERY MOSL (CEN, EAS, OSH)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
Physical Description
307 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
It is 1969, and flames can be seen on the horizon, protest wafts like smoke though the thick air, and Easy Rawlins, the Black private detective whose small agency finally has its own office, gets a visit from a white Vietnam veteran. The young man comes to Easy with a story that makes little sense. He and his lover, a beautiful young woman, were attacked in a citrus grove at the city's outskirts. He may have killed a man, and the woman and his dog are now missing. Inclined to turn down what sounds like nothing but trouble, Easy takes the case when he realizes how damaged the young vet is from his war experiences--the bond between veterans superseding all other considerations. The veteran is not Easy's only unlooked-for trouble. Easy's adopted daughter Feather's white uncle shows up uninvited, raising questions and unsettling the life Easy has long forged for the now young woman. Where Feather sees a family reunion, Easy suspects something else, something that will break his heart.
Subjects
- Private investigators > California > Los Angeles > Fiction.
- African American private investigators > Fiction.
- African American men > Fiction.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Veterans > United States > Fiction.
- Nineteen sixty-nine, A.D. > Fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction.
- Rawlins, Easy (Fictitious character) > Fiction.