It numbers six in the series and they make up what is perhaps the best Walter Mosley series. Mosley’s Leonid McGill series is another fine set of books from the great author. The thing that crosses Easy’s mind is about how he’ll pay for the mortgage when just the opportunity comes in – a white man needing to have a certain girl located. The keyword in this case was, seeing as he has just lost that job and is now drinking at a bar that one of his friends owns. Nowadays, Easy was working at a defense plant. Chance He Was Looking ForĮasy Rawlins, the series’ titular character, in the first book, is a black veteran from the terrible war that had so recently finished. The main character in Devil in Blue Dress is none other than Easy Rawlins. The years of the events in the series, all throughout, are in the later 1940s and earlier 1950s, with the first of Mosley’s Easy Rawlins novels, Devil in a Blue Dress, taking place towards the final years of the turbulent fifth decade of the twentieth century. Now, for Mosley’s Easy Rawlins series in order, we have: It is a series where one can find the most popular Walter Mosley books, too.

Mosley’s Easy Rawlins series is a fifteen-book series. With that all noted, let’s take a look at the best Walter Mosley books. This is what fueled the desire in Walter to read many of his future favorite authors and to one day become the author that we know him as. Walter loved his father for the deep thinking and storytelling that Leroy had showcased.

Walter attended Alexander Hamilton High School and graduated from there. When Walter Ellis Mosley was about twelve, he and his family relocated from South Central to a better, more comfortable, and safer part of Los Angeles.

Black Betty by Walter Mosley