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Set in 1968, MWA Grand Master Mosley’s excellent 14th Easy Rawlins mystery(after 2014’s Rose Gold) finds the favor-dealing L.A. PI working as a partner inthe WRENS-L Detective Agency, which combines his initials with those of histwo partners. A dangerous friend of Easy’s, Raymond “Mouse” Alexander,introduces him to Rufus “Charcoal Joe” Tyler, who wants Easy to clear SeymourBrathwaite, a 22-year-old doctor of physics doing postgraduate work at UCLA.Seymour was arrested on …