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  • White Butterfly

  • An Easy Rawlins Mystery
  • By: Walter Mosley
  • Narrated by: Michael Boatman
  • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (847 ratings)

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White Butterfly

By: Walter Mosley
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
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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 the word in the ghetto." But Easy turns them down. He's married now, a father -- and his detective days are over. Then a white college coed dies the same brutal death, and the cops put the heat on Easy: If he doesn't help, his best friend is headed for jail. So Easy's back, walking the midnight streets of Watts and the darker, twisted avenues of a cunning killer's mind....
©1994 Walter Mosley (P)2009 Audible, Inc.
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this was an amazing story. Mr. Mosley always provides great detail and imagery within his works and Mr. Boatman is able to brong all works to life with his voice and energy

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Easy Does It

Easy does it again, never disappoints! Book is well written, holds your attention and keeps you guessing to the very end. You just want Easy to WIN!!!

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White Butterfly

Yet again, Walter Moseley doesn’t disappoint! Great story, and I love the narrator, wish he could narrate all of the books in my library.

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A Easy Rowlins As Always

The story was easy to follow, the wife was feisty and funny lol. The plot twist was nice and a good way to end the story.

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I love everything about this book and I am looking forward to reading the complete series.
Easy is so smooth and yet so Raw.

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White Butterfly

Walter Moseley has me spellbound until the end! I'm looking forward to next story in this series. The narrator is awesome too.

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great book!!

vivid descriptions and well thought out plot makes the characters and situations seem so plausible. Mosely gas done it again.

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I liked it but not as well as Devil in A Blue Dress.

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Unusual story

Dislike racism . Liked how it was told. Appreciate how the hero was slowly revealed, and the reality of his emotions. The reader is the one to discern what an extraordinary man the hero was.
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Mosley’s Poetry !

The pacing and rhythm of Mosley’s prose is why he’s at the top of the heap of mystery writers.

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