As a high school custodian, Easy Rawlins has been trying to live on the straight and narrow, and for two years he`s been succeeding. Then he gets tangled up in the life of Idabell Turner--math teacher and femme fatale. When her husband and brother-in-law are murdered, Easy hits the streets to find the killer before the cops get a chance to pin the rap on him. A New York Times Notable Book of 1996.