Book Review: A Red Death, the second Easy Rawlins novel, takes place in 1953, five years after the first installment. Communists are suspected of infiltrating the black community, his failure to report ill-gotten income is catching up to Easy Rawlins, and he's discovered three violent deaths. Not much is going well and Easy feels both guilty and scared about the few bright spots in his life. He tries to adhere to his personal moral code, but seemingly fails as often as he succeeds. In A Red Death we meet a few familiar characters from the first novel, but Mosley spends less time examining sociology as he did in Devil in a Blue Dress and more time establishing a local community that both helps and endangers our intrepid hero. Not quite up to the standard of his first book, but A Red Death is still a quick, exciting, and compelling read. [3★]
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