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From the acclaimed bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins series, deemed "one of America's best mystery writers" (The New York Times Book Review), comes a tale about a murdered man who does not want to go to heaven or hell--he'd rather have his old life in Harlem.... Read Full Overview

The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed... Read Full Overview

It's 1956 and, times being what they are, no one in official Los Angeles pays much attention as a serial killer murders three black bar girls. But when a white stripper is similarly murdered - and when she turns out to be a UCLA coed, and the daughter of a politically powerful... Read Full Overview

"...The girl is now a woman. Profound mystery She has left off the giddiness of childhood to take on the sedateness of youth. Poor woman she does not know that a young girl is a thousand times more crazy than a child. But the fact is that Berta does not seem the same girl... Read Full Overview