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Synopsis
As protagonist Henry Rios investigates his friend Chris Chandler's murder, he begins to discover that the State Supreme Court judge's life had not been at all what it appeared to be, as Chandler's young gay lover begs for protection and other secrets begin to come to light.
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The latest Henry Rios mystery finds Michael Nava's gay Mexican-American lawyer under severe stress as he defends an L.A. street hustler. One of Rios's former lovers has been murdered; another is nearing death from AIDS. Nava strives for emotional depth and social relevance in his tough tales, told with Chandler-esque language. Rios describes himself best: "I was a magnet for the desperate, frightened and reviled, who somehow or other had heard about the fag lawyer who was a sap for a sad story."
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"Fast-paced and intense...A beautifully executed novel, with a classic whodunit at its core."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Nava...can devise as canny a plot as he can a defense motion. His latest, though, has something special--the scent of memory that lingers as poignantly as a departed lover's cologne."
--People, Page-Turner of the Week
"Like Raymond Chandler, [Nava] uncovers trickle-down corruption in high places. Like Simenon, he tracks crime to its intimate moral source in familiar human weaknesses, gradually implicating murderer, victim, sleuth, and maybe even the reader."
--Entertainment Weekly
"[A] solid, intelligent whodunit...This is a high-quality work of fiction that deserves to be widely discovered."
--Chicago Tribune
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- PublisherG. P. Putnam's Sons
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 039913977X
- ISBN 13 9780399139772
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages232
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