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Cinnamon Kiss: An Easy Rawlins Novel

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Easy Rawlins exposes the Summer of Love's ugly underbelly in this addition to the critically acclaimed historical mystery series that bears his name. When Easy learns that the tab for treating his daughter Feather's devastating illness in a Swiss hospital will top $35,000, he almost succumbs to his friend Mouse's offer to join him in robbing an armored car. But Easy thinks better of the idea, and chooses instead to accept the more legitimate (but perhaps no less dangerous) job of locating missing San Francisco lawyer Axel Bowers and his sexy assistant, Philomena "Cinnamon" Cargill.

Praise

Publishers Weekly
"[S]uperb....As ever, Mosley is able to capture the era--hippies, Watts, communes--in brief strokes that provide a brilliant background to Easy's search for solutions to both a convoluted mystery and complex personal problems." (starred review) 07/11/2005

Kirkus
"[A]s richly and as tightly wound as you'd expect from Mosley." 06/01/2005

Entertainment Weekly
"CINNAMON convincingly wraps a mystery within the larger context of history and race in Los Angeles. Mosley could probably take an elderly Easy into the Rodney King era with no problem at all." - Gilbert Cruz 09/23/2005

Literary Review
"What distinguishes Mosley's superlative crime fiction is how surely it comprehends and digests the political history that is an integral part of the scene so that it feeds the narrative as it becomes part of the action. CINNAMON KISS is an ambitious and exciting book which informs as vividly as it entertains. Don't miss." - Philip Oakes November 2005

Author Bio

Walter Mosley

The son of a Southern black father and a Jewish New Yorker mother, Walter Mosley worked as a computer programmer before dedicating himself to writing. His series of successful mysteries starring detective Easy Rawlins began with "Devil in a Blue Dress", which was made into a film starring Denzel Washington. Mosley has also served on the executive board of the PEN American Center, the board of directors of the National Book Awards, and as president of the Mystery Writers of America.