Cinnamon Kiss : A Novel (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
by Walter Mosley
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Author: Walter MosleyEdition: Hardcover
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Published: 2005-09-19
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Number of pages: 320
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Book Review: What a Kiss of Cinnamon it is !
Summary: 5 Stars
Turning Pages Book Club, members would like to congratulate Walter Mosley on another great mystery novel.
This storyline takes place in the late 1960's in both Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area, which made this storyline extra special for those of us from the "Bay Area".
Our hero the fantastic "Detective Easy Rawlins" in this story revels a sensitive side of "Easy" that has not been introduced much in the previous novels by Mr. Mosley.
Due to the fact that his daughter, "Feather" needs a life saving surgery which will cost $35,000, and this surgery will have to be done in Switzerland, it is a wonder,"Easy" can focus on the business at hand with total concentration.
As usual Mr. Mosley comes up with a unique storyline that captures the reader to the end of his novels and still asking for more. He has the unique capacity to make you laugh, angry and weep all at the same time while reading his murder/mysteries, which star non- other than "Easy", his wild, for real crazy, but always has his back-homeboy-"Mouse", and his homeboy-genius,scared of his own-shadow, friend-Jackson Blue", the person who got him into this mess, while trying to help him out, his friend Saul Lynx who is also a private investigator.
While,Mr. Mosley keeps many of his old characters he always adds new and colorful ones to this novel: Christmas Black -a Vietnam war hero/unhero and his adopted daughter, Easter Dawn, then there is the private investigator-Robert E. Lee and the star of the story "Cinnamon Cargill" and her lover Alex Bowers who have vanished for no apparent reason. Robert E. Lee, who is a Private Investigator, himself is willing to pay $10,000 up front for Ms. Cargill and Mr. Bowers to be found, with the promise of more after they are found. (Makes you want to go "hum").
Well, Easy has an offer from his friend Mouse,(who is trying to help Easy get some quick money), a set-up armed robbery scheme and then there is the offer from his friend Saul, of the simple double missing persons incident up in San Francisco? Well, what would you do, if you are an upstanding citizen in your community, role model at the school where you are employed and have children? Easy, takes the more legitimate sounding offer and heads off to San Francisco to meet Robert E. Lee for this mysterious assignment. This simple missing persons assignment takes him through San Francisco's Haight Ashberry during the prime "love and peace" era of the late 60's then across the bay to Berkeley, back and forth to Los Angles on a wild expedition to solve a mystery that seems very simple until people turn up dead and a crazed, serial killer/assassin by the name of Joe Cicero shows up on the scene. Then, everything seems to start rapidly moving throughout the story with dead bodies showing up, at every address that "Easy" is directed to shows up at and, of course all fingers are pointing at him. The first person he locates is found dead in Berkeley, and the great PI who hired him Mr. Lee, doesn't know this? Finally, when he does locate "Cinnamon Cargill", in Los Angeles,another dead body shows up at the location where she is staying. This gets to be a little unnerving for a simple missing persons investigation or is it really that simple?
This murder/mystery novel covers, crimes in history that were committed during World War II in Nazi Germany, and then brings you back to crimes during the Vietnam War.
Mr. Mosley is a very descriptive writer, who can describe a scene so vividly you could paint a picture from his words; (pg. 307-"I drove my rental car for hours, but it seemed like several days, bleeding on the steering wheel and down my....").
This murder mystery novel was so exhilarating and full of action that I just can't wait to read the next Walter Mosley mystery to see what happens next?
Summary of Cinnamon Kiss : A Novel (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
It is the Summer of Love as CINNAMON KISS opens, and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It+s farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled-but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time. And his friend Mouse tells him it+s a cinch.Then another friend, Saul Lynx, offers a job that might solve Easy+s problem without jail time. He has to track the disappearance of an eccentric prominent attorney. His assistant of sorts, the beautiful -Cinnamon+ Cargill, is gone as well. Easy can tell there is much more than he is being told-Robert Lee, his new employer, is as suspect as the man who disappeared. But his need overcomes all concerns, and he plunges into unfamiliar territory, from the newfound hippie enclaves to a vicious plot that stretches back to the battlefields of Europe.Book Subjects
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