Death of Friends
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When a judge leading a double life is murdered, Henry Rios comes to the controversial defense of the prime suspect
Chris Chandler, a long-married and closeted California state superior court judge, has been found dead in his chambers—beaten to death with his recent Judge of the Year award. When his young lover, Zack Bowen, is arrested, Henry Rios takes on Bowen's defense. For Rios, who has kept Judge Chandler's secret since law school, it means going up against a closed community—including Chandler's angry wife and son—to defend a man he believes innocent. Then Bowen vanishes.
As Rios copes with the loss of a friend, and the impending death of his lover, Josh, he finds himself front and center in a case that becomes a test of his own moral courage.
The Death of Friends is the fifth book in the Henry Rios mystery series, which begins with The Little Death and Goldenboy.
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Michael Nava. (2013). Death of Friends. Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller.
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Michael Nava (b. 1954) is the award-winning author of seven novels featuring criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. The Little Death (1986), the first book in the series, completed while Nava was in law school, was followed by Goldenboy (1988), How Town (1990), The Hidden Law (1992), The Death of Friends (1996), The Burning Plain (1997), and Rag and Bones (2001). He is also the co-author of the nonfiction book, Created Equal: Why Gay Rights Matter to America (1994). Nava is a six-time recipient of the Lambda Literary Award as well as the Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award for Gay and Lesbian literature. Michael Nava lives in San Francisco, where he works as an appellate lawyer.
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As Rios copes with the loss of a friend, and the impending death of his lover, Josh, he finds himself front and center in a case that becomes a test of his own moral courage.
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Starred review from July 29, 1996
As the reality of AIDS permeates gay life, it also works its way into gay/lesbian crime fiction, including that of Lambda Award-winning Nava (The Hidden Law), who creates some of the best work in this genre. The L.A. life and times of gay, Latino, formerly alcoholic criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios make for somber reading principally because of AIDS. His lover, Joss, left him for another, who died. Now Joss is dying, and faithful Henry is his last salvation. Chris Chandler, Henry's college friend who hid his homosexuality for years behind a family and a law career, has been murdered by a series of sharp blows to the head. Zack, his secret young lover, a former street hustler and gay-porn star, is accused of the crime. Nava plots like a master, giving up a secret on each page, continually slipping into flashbacks and detailing police corruption as a matter of course. Behind the genre elements, the death of Chris Chandler stands as a metaphor for the lies many gay men live with; the picture formed of the dead man is awash in ambiguity. Meanwhile an earthquake strikes, and Henry must get through Joss's last days, staring down the relentless brutality of a horrible disease. This is a brave, ambitious and highly impressive work. Author tour.
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As Rios copes with the loss of a friend, and the impending death of his lover, Josh, he finds himself front and center in a case that becomes a test of his own moral courage.
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