

It’s inevitable that some folk are going to die, but he’s determined it’s not going to be him.


Between trying to unravel mystery and stay alive, he also works to stop Mouse from murdering innocent men, and turn the tables on the woman who hustled him. Easy agrees to find the aging siren, but it quickly leads him into deadly trouble. Easy was in awe of Betty back in Houston when he was a kid, now she’s disappeared from a Beverley Hills mansion shortly after the owner died. To add to his woes his murderous friend, Mouse, has just been released from prison and wants revenge on the man who put him there, and he’s been asked by a white PI to find Black Betty, famed for twisting men’s necks and wrapping them around her fingers. Easy has fallen on hard times his property business has been hustled out from under him and he’s living in rented accommodation with his mute son and young daughter. Black Betty is the fifth book in the Easy Rawlins series and it’s a doozey.
