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Mystery · 1992 · PG-13

White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)

by Walter Mosley

Easy Rawlins is drawn into a serial murder case when white girls start dying alongside Black ones.

For14+GenreMysteryLength272 pagesRead time~7.5 hours

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Violence

Some

Murder; serial violence; dead women found

Language

Some

Strong language

Sexual Content

Some

Adult sexual content; strip club setting

Substance Use

None

No substance use

Emotional Intensity

Some

Themes of racial double standards in law enforcement and the disposability of Black lives

What this book is about

The third Easy Rawlins mystery (1992) set in 1956 Watts follows Easy as the LAPD finally asks for his help finding a strip club killer — now that white women are turning up alongside Black victims who never made the news. For adults.

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Racial violence

Strong language

Adult content

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