“The ability to simultaneously keep us readers in confusion and in thrall marks Mosley—winner of the National Book Foundation’s 2020 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters—as a mystery master…The central mystery in Blood Grove—as in all the Easy Rawlins books—is as much about the brazen contradictions of American society as it is about what happened in that orange grove one night. But that mystery turns out to be pretty gripping too.”

—Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post

“Rawlins is the greatest contributor to Los Angeles’s literary culture and its native son’s repute.”

—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times

“In the fifteenth outing for his iconic private detective, Easy Rawlins, Mosley once again chronicles a part of America rendered invisible—and overpowered—by whiteness. The book is set in 1969, with Rawlins on the verge of fifty, still struggling with professional and romantic and familial conflicts in a Los Angeles about to be beset by the berserk.”

—New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice

“It is a fair bet that if Walter Mosley has a book coming out during any given month, there’s an excellent chance it will be the best mystery of that month. Case in point: his latest. Nothing is quite what it seems in this place, in this time, in this book…I read it all in one sitting, as I just could not stop turning the pages.”

—Bruce Tierney, BookPage

“Walter Mosley’s books about Easy Rawlins are crime fiction, not history. But taken together, they’re a vivid picture of Black life in Los Angeles in the mid-twentieth century…Easy Rawlins takes a long strange trip in Blood Grove, and it’s a thrill to take it with him.”

—Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times

“If Walter Mosely’s Blood Grove is your first Easy Rawlins book, by the time you finish you’ll rejoice that you have fourteen more to catch up on. If you’re already an aficionado, Mosley’s latest detective creation is the life diversion you know you need now…Easy is smart, self-possessed, and, with Mosley’s ear for dialogue, unabashedly funny. Blood Grove is ripe to be plucked as one of Mosley’s finest and most important novels.”

—Tom Mayer, Mountain Times

“Get Blood Grove and you might as well just put that bookmark in a drawer…For fans, Mosley goes the extra step, offering a chance to catch up with the dark characters that Rawlins has called ‘friends’ in past novels. If you’re not a fan, grab this book and you will be quick. Just don’t grab it after dark: Blood Grove will keep your eyes open all night.”

—Terri Schlichenmeyer, Tennessee Tribune

“Mosley does a fine job highlighting a world of Black survivors who know how difficult their struggle remains, every day of every decade. This marvelous series is as relevant as ever.”

—Publishers Weekly