White Butterfly

The police don't show
up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los
Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the
cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a
precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the
ghetto." But Easy turns them down. He's married now, a father -- and his
detective days are over. Then a white college coed dies the same brutal
death, and the cops put the heat on Easy: If he doesn't help, his best
friend is headed for jail. So Easy's back, walking the midnight streets
of Watts and the darker, twisted avenues of a cunning killer's mind..