Blood Grove

Master of craft and narrativeWalter Mosley returns with thiscrowning achievement in the Easy Rawlins saga, in which the iconicdetective's loyalties are tested on the sun-soaked streets of Southern California (National Book Foundation)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 citys 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 experiencesthe bond between veterans superseding all other considerations.<BR...