Easy Rawlins Books in Order

A group of influential people asks Easy Rawlins to find a woman named Lutisha James, and the request feels more like a warning than a job. As Easy closes in, the search threatens to upend his private life and expose what powerful people want buried.

Easy Rawlins is pulled into a missing-person case that touches powerful money and dangerous secrets in 1970s Los Angeles. Following the trail means balancing favors, family, and survival in a city that’s changing fast around him.

A troubled Vietnam veteran hires Easy Rawlins to find a woman linked to a night of violence he can barely remember. Easy’s search cuts through hustlers, wealthy secrets, and the lingering damage of war as Los Angeles heads into a new decade.

Easy Rawlins takes a job that starts with a jailed man’s request and turns into a hunt for missing cash and the truth behind a double murder. With cops, criminals, and old enemies closing in, Easy has to protect an innocent man without becoming a target himself.

A missing college student and a suspicious ransom demand draw Easy Rawlins into a case with high pressure from police and powerful families. As the trail leads into money, violence, and hidden motives, Easy has to decide who he can afford to trust.

After waking from a coma, Easy Rawlins is asked to find a young man who vanished with money, drugs, and trouble close behind. Moving through the psychedelic edges of 1960s L.A., Easy has to track the missing man before the wrong people do.

Easy Rawlins is pulled into a case that tangles family, old loyalties, and a fresh death that threatens to land on the wrong person. As he chases answers across Los Angeles, the lines between friend and enemy blur in dangerous ways.

Facing steep medical bills, Easy Rawlins takes a job finding a missing woman known as Cinnamon. The search pulls him into a web of secrets that reaches from the streets to powerful men who don’t like loose ends.

In the aftermath of the Watts uprising, Easy Rawlins is pushed to investigate the murder of a Black woman when the official case doesn’t add up. Moving through a city on edge, he’s forced to weigh justice against survival at every step.

This collection gathers several Easy Rawlins cases, from arson and blackmail to sudden, senseless killings. Each story is short, but together they show how Easy works: patient questions, quick instincts, and the constant need to keep danger away from home.

Easy Rawlins is asked to find a missing teenager, Brawly Brown, and the search opens up a tense world of activists, hustlers, and people watching from the shadows. What begins as a rescue becomes a race against forces that don’t want Brawly found.

Before he was a fixer in Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins was a teenager in Texas with his dangerous friend Mouse. A trip to a small town to confront an abusive stepfather becomes Easy’s first close look at how quickly violence can change a life.

Now working a steady job, Easy Rawlins is drawn into a school scandal when a teacher is found murdered and heroin starts surfacing in unlikely places. A rookie cop targets Easy, so he has to investigate fast to clear his name and keep his family safe.

Easy Rawlins searches for a missing woman tied to a powerful family and a past that won’t stay buried. The closer he gets, the more he’s pushed into L.A.’s underworld of nightclubs, scams, and lethal secrets.

Two young women are murdered in Los Angeles, and the police only panic when one of the victims is white. Pulled into the investigation, Easy Rawlins follows a trail of fear and exploitation that forces him to confront what the city ignores.

Easy Rawlins is leaned on by federal agents who want his help with a suspected Communist in postwar Los Angeles. To protect himself and the people around him, Easy has to dig into a case where everyone has something to hide.

In 1948 Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an out-of-work Black WWII veteran hired to find the elusive Daphne Monet. The quick job turns into a maze of crooked cops, political secrets, and murder.