cover image White Butterfly: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story ""Lavender""

White Butterfly: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story ""Lavender""

Walter Mosley. Pocket Books, $6.5 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-671-86787-4

The third novel in Mosley's acclaimed series starring Easy Rawlins, a black PI who lives and works in the Watts section of L.A. in the 1950s, centers on the investigation of the murder of a white college coed who led a double life as a stripper. (July)