IT is n't easy , being the moral compass for your race and generation during the convulsive era of the Watts riots in Los Angeles , and CINNAMON KISS -LRB- Little , Brown , $ 24.95 -RRB- finds Walter Mosley 's conscientious private eye , Ezekiel -LRB- Easy -RRB- Rawlins , sorely tempted to stray from the path of virtue .