Farewell, Amethystine

I've never met a Walter Mosley book I didn't like. I enjoy how his protagonist, Easy Rawlins, has become richer, more finely drawn, over the years. The way Mosley draws his characters, the setting, and the time period draws you deeper into the mystery. The way he deepens the beginning mystery by creating more side mysteries and characters and skillfully brings them together at the very end has kept me coming back to his books, time after time. It's funny, I used to sometimes wonder why I was being taken somewhere that didn't seem to fit, but Mosley always showed me why it fit, tightly, with the original question.Like some reviewers, I'm not going to tell you the whole story. In this book, Easy's client, Amethystine, hires him to find her ex-husband, Curt. The police weren't doing enough and Curt's parents weren't getting any questions answered. But, of course, it's not as simple as that. The characters appear and are resolved, so to speak, one by one.Of course, Easy has his family he adores, and reliable, old friends who help him do all the necessaries when needed, and often give him a stronger sense of purpose. Sometimes Easy has to be hard to get the job done. After all this time and reading all the books, Easy is like an old friend.The narrator is a natural for the Easy Rawlins mysteries. This is the first one I've listened to, so I don't know if he's done others. But his voice is so close to the one in my head. I thoroughly enjoyed every second of it.If I were you, I would start with the first book, Devil In a Blue Dress to see how Easy Rawlins went from a WWII veteran to a LA private detective. If you don't want to read them all in order, read a few in the middle to see how Easy's character evolves.