Blood Grove

Walter Mosley

W&N £20 Easy Rawlins is Philip Marlowe’s natural successor, a cynical yet noble private investigator plying his trade in the Los Angeles shadows. The series has now reached the turbulent late 1960s. Blood Grove begins with a shellshocked veteran of the Vietnam War asking Easy to find out if he’s accidentally murdered someone, and ends up with a series of ever more dangerous men and women fighting over the spoils of an armoured car heist. A seriously enjoyable ride.