Title: Cinnamon Kiss
Author: Walter Mosley
I had never read anything from Walter Mosley's large body of work before grabbing Cinnamon Kiss while chasing two kids at the library last week. I had seen Little Scarlet, one of his previous Easy Rawlins novels, all over bookstores a few years ago and had always meant to read it, but had never gotten the chance.
Anyway, Cinnamon Kiss transports the reader to LA in 1966, where Easy Rawlins is a school janitor cum private investigator living in Watts just after the riots. In order to pay for an expensive medical procedure for his daughter, he gets involved in the case of a missing briefcase, which turns out to be much more.
Although the body count was a little high for my tastes (probably in the mid-double digits, lol), I loved Cinnamon Kiss. I love how Mosely really got me, a white SAHM living 40 years after the fact, into the mind and place and voice of Rawlins and the people around him. I'm putting Little Scarlet on my reading list ASAP and hope to keep reading more about Rawlins and his loyal friends.
--originally published 9/27/06
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