* WINNER OF THE CWA JOHN CREASEY AWARD*

* THE FIRST NOVEL BY INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED WRITER WALTER MOSLEY *

'A damn good read'
VAL MCDERMID

'A brilliant novel'
JONATHAN KELLERMAN

'A first novel of astonishing virtuosity'
SUNDAY TIMES

I need to find somebody and I might need a little help looking...

The summer of '48 in the city of Angels and there's heat on the streets when Daphne Monet hits the sidewalk. Heat when she disappears with a trunkload of somebody else's cash.

Easy Rawlins is a war veteran just fired from his job. Drinking in a friend's bar, he wonders how to meet his mortgage when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will locate Miss Monet, a blonde with a reputation. It's a simple decision, but for one thing. Nobody warned him - better the devil you know...

'Magnificent... a wonderful new talent' Financial Times

'Sharp and meatily convincing' The Times

'Perfectly balanced concoctions of lust, violence, politics and race' Sunday Times