Gray Dawn, Walter Mosley
Gray Dawn, Walter Mosley
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Gray Dawn
An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Author: Walter Mosley

Narrator: Michael Boatman, Walter Mosley

Unabridged: 9 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/16/2025

Synopsis

In this thrilling mystery from "master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley (National Book Foundation), Detective Easy Rawlins has settled into the happy rhythm of his new life when a dark siren from his past returns and threatens to destroy the peace he's fought for.

The name Easy Rawlins stirs excitement in the hearts of readers and fear in the hearts of his foes. His success has bought him a thriving detective agency, with its first female detective; a remote home, shared with children and pets and lovers, high atop the hills overlooking gritty Los Angeles; and more trouble, more problems, and more threat to those whom he loves. In other words, he’s still beset on all sides.
 
A number of below-the-law powerbrokers plead with Easy to locate a mysterious, dangerous woman—Lutisha James, though she’s gone by another name that Easy will immediately recognize. 1970s Los Angeles is a transient city of delicate, violent balances, and Lutisha has disturbed that. She also has a secret that will upend Easy’s own life, painfully closer to home.

About Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley is the author of more than fifty critically-acclaimed books, including the major bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and includes literary fiction, science fiction, political monographs, and a young adult novel. In 2013, he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame, and he is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award, a Grammy, PEN America's Lifetime Achievement Award, and an Edgar Award. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shannon M (Canada) on October 25, 2025

I haven't read all the Easy Rawlins novels, but I have read many, and I loved them all except for #16, "Farewell, Amethystine", which I dnf'd, and consequently did not review. Thus, I was a bit wary of requesting GRAY DAWN (#17) from NetGalley. But initially I was pleased that I had received it, as......more

Goodreads review by Laura on July 21, 2025

Out September 16th, 2025 Gray Dawn is a contemplative, slow-burning novel that asks more questions than it answers—and that’s part of its power. Mosley’s prose is deliberate and introspective, weaving a narrative that explores identity, memory, and the quiet unraveling of a man caught between past a......more

Goodreads review by Andre(Read-A-Lot) on October 29, 2025

Mosley just keeps going and going and going. Full disclosure. I am a Walter Mosley fan. I am a BIG Walter Mosley fan. So, Mr. Mosley does something a little different here with the beginning of this book. He begins with a ‘note from the author.’ He explains the raison d’être of Easy Rawlins. “Easy’s......more

Goodreads review by Larry on October 29, 2025

Gray Dawn, book 17 in the Easy Rawlins series, by Walter Mosley, not his best, but gave it a 4. I love Mosley’s gift for storytelling, particularly his Easy Rawlins stories, and the wide array of characters developed throughout the series’ over 35 years. This story is set in LA, 1971, it features ma......more

Goodreads review by Peejay(Pamela) on June 08, 2025

Well written, attention-grabbing and intricately plotted. I hadn’t read an Easy Rawlings novel for a long, long time, so I found the multitude of characters a little hard to follow at times (many recurring characters and relationships from earlier novels interwoven into the complex web of the story)......more

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