
Gray Dawn
An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Author: Walter Mosley
Narrator: Michael Boatman, Walter Mosley
Unabridged: 9 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Published: 09/16/2025

Author: Walter Mosley
Narrator: Michael Boatman, Walter Mosley
Unabridged: 9 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Published: 09/16/2025
Walter Mosley is the author of more than fifty critically-acclaimed books, including the major bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and includes literary fiction, science fiction, political monographs, and a young adult novel. In 2013, he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame, and he is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award, a Grammy, PEN America's Lifetime Achievement Award, and an Edgar Award. He lives in New York City.
I haven't read all the Easy Rawlins novels, but I have read many, and I loved them all except for #16, "Farewell, Amethystine", which I dnf'd, and consequently did not review. Thus, I was a bit wary of requesting GRAY DAWN (#17) from NetGalley. But initially I was pleased that I had received it, as......more
Out September 16th, 2025 Gray Dawn is a contemplative, slow-burning novel that asks more questions than it answers—and that’s part of its power. Mosley’s prose is deliberate and introspective, weaving a narrative that explores identity, memory, and the quiet unraveling of a man caught between past a......more
Mosley just keeps going and going and going. Full disclosure. I am a Walter Mosley fan. I am a BIG Walter Mosley fan. So, Mr. Mosley does something a little different here with the beginning of this book. He begins with a ‘note from the author.’ He explains the raison d’être of Easy Rawlins. “Easy’s......more
Gray Dawn, book 17 in the Easy Rawlins series, by Walter Mosley, not his best, but gave it a 4. I love Mosley’s gift for storytelling, particularly his Easy Rawlins stories, and the wide array of characters developed throughout the series’ over 35 years. This story is set in LA, 1971, it features ma......more
Well written, attention-grabbing and intricately plotted. I hadn’t read an Easy Rawlings novel for a long, long time, so I found the multitude of characters a little hard to follow at times (many recurring characters and relationships from earlier novels interwoven into the complex web of the story)......more