Blood Grove is the 15th novel in Walter Mosley’s hardboiled detective series featuring Ezekiel Porterhouse Rawlins, which began with Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990. Easy is an African American from Texas who fought in World War II and moved to Los Angeles after demobilising. By the time this novel opens in the summer of 1969, he has enough money to retire in comfort, drives a 1968 Rolls-Royce Phantom VI, lives in a gated community with his adopted daughter Feather, and owns the WRENS-L Detective Agency.Įasy is nonetheless suffering from an inexplicable ennui and pays for his secretary to take a holiday so that he can spend time in the office on his own. No sooner has she left than he is approached by a mentally disturbed Vietnam veteran named Craig Killian. The young white man thinks he stabbed a stranger to death while trying to rescue a woman in an orange grove in the San Fernando Valley. Killian lost consciousness in the struggle and when he came to both the woman and the body were gone. He wants Easy to find the woman and determine whether or not he killed the man.Įasy is neither convinced that the case is in his client’s interest nor that his client is being entirely truthful, but decides to take it because of their shared bond as combat veterans. He starts by visiting Killian’s mother, an ex-stripper named Lola who has maintained her contacts in organised crime, and suspects that she is implicated in either the deception or the case itself.
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