
Gray Dawn
An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Little, Brown and Company · Print & ebook · September 16, 2025
Instant USA Today Bestseller In this thrilling mystery from "master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley (National Book Foundation), Detective Easy Rawlins has settled into the happy rhythm of his new life when a dark siren from his past returns and threatens to destroy the peace he's fought for.
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- Genres
- Black Mystery, Historical Mystery, Private Eye Fiction
- Published
- Little, Brown and Company, September 16, 2025
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Instant USA Today Bestseller In this thrilling mystery from "master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley (National Book Foundation), Detective Easy Rawlins has settled into the happy rhythm of his new life when a dark siren from his past returns and threatens to destroy the peace he's fought for. The name Easy Rawlins stirs excitement in the hearts of readers and fear in the hearts of his foes.
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His success has bought him a thriving detective agency, with its first female detective; a remote home, shared with children and pets and lovers, high atop the hills overlooking gritty Los Angeles; and more trouble, more problems, and more threats to those he loves. In other words, he’s still beset on all sides. Rising in the city's criminal underground is a woman cannier than any card shark or kingpin, a woman feared by all, threatening the businesses of all, whom Easy must quickly locate and neutralize. She goes by the name Lutisha, but Easy will recognize her as the woman who set his entire adult life into motion. Nineteen-seventies Los Angeles is a transient city of delicate, violent balances, and Lutisha has upended that. She also has a secret that will upend Easy's own life, painfully close to home. Read more
Hard-Boiled Drive
Come here for
- Easy Rawlins in hard-boiled mode
- steady tension, sharp edges
Expect
- private-eye rhythm
- collector-friendly series entry
Where it sits
| Black Mystery | 56% |
|---|---|
| Historical Mystery | 31% |
| Private Eye Fiction | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Black Mystery
- Noir Fiction
- Authors
- Walter Mosley
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Published
- September 16, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Black Mystery