![]() Rawlins returns in Little Green, which is set in 1967. ![]() “I just needed to take a break from it and come back and start doing it again. “I realized that I didn’t really need to stop writing it completely,” he says. “It wasn’t that I was taking it lightly or for granted, I wasn’t bringing anything new to it,” he says.Īfter spending a few years writing other projects, he reassessed his relationship to the character. Those who read the last Rawlins book, 2007’s Blonde Faith, may be surprised that he’s back, since he was last seen driving off a cliff, presumably to his death.Īfter writing 11 Rawlins novels (many of which included a color in the title), Mosley felt he should take a break from the character for fear the stories would get stale. One of the country’s most respected writers of crime fiction and other genres, the man seems to drop a new literary work every six months.įor his latest, Little Green, he went back to the creation that earned him his renown: Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, an African-American private investigator living and solving cases in Mosley’s hometown of Los Angeles. I moved on circling to other thingsyou know, people do that.”Ĭonsidering that Mosley is so prolific he could make Stephen King feel like a slacker, his talk of moving on to the next thing makes sense. “It’s been so long ago, I don’t know why,” says Mosley, 61, on the phone from his New York home. ![]() ![]() The best of INDY Week’s fiercely independent journalism about the Triangle delivered straight to your inbox. ![]()
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