Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley

Cinnamon Kiss is Mosley's 10th Easy Rawlins mystery. It has many of the same elements that were great in earlier entries in the series, but somehow this one felt flat for me. Once again, Easy is looking for a woman involved in a mystery (Cinnamon), and once again he's battling racial discrimination as he works his way through the puzzle.

Cinnamon Kiss offers us glimpses of hippie era San Francisco and post-Watts riots Los Angeles, along with some asides about the Vietnam war. I'm not sure if this is really a weaker book in the series, or if I've just hit the "too many books in the series" slump, but I can't really recommend this as one of Mosley's best.

To read more about the Easy Rawlins books and find out about Walter Mosley, check out his web site, at:

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