1953 and there's a cold wind blowing across America. Even in LA, Easy Rawlins is feeling the chill, with the tax man at his door... the only way to make some luck is undercover work for the IRS. Until one of his targets winds up dead and the fingers are pointing at Easy... Read More...

The summer of '48 in the City of Angels and there's heat on the streets and in the ghettos of LA when Daphne Monet hits the sidewalks. Heat when she disappears with a truckload of someone else's cash. Read More...

A novel about the blues - the blues as an expression of black poetry and black tragedy and how they sit in judgement on the American experience. In contemporary New York, aging bluesman Soupspoon Wise is dying. Read More...

Five Years have passed since the White Butterfly affair: there's Kennedy in the White House and Martin Luther King is in the news. And then, sure enough, trouble comes knocking again at Easy's door... Read More...

Five Years have passed since the White Butterfly affair: there's Kennedy in the White House and Martin Luther King is in the news. And then, sure enough, trouble comes knocking again at Easy's door... Read More...

Los Angeles 1956. Young good-time girls are being murdered and savagely mutilated. And the police don't care - as long as they're black. When a white girl gets killed, the powers that be demand action... fast. Read More...