Gray Dawn by Walter Mosley

Gray Dawn

An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Walter Mosley

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 Mystery56%
Historical Mystery31%
Private Eye Fiction31%

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