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Henry Rios is introduced as a troubled San Francisco public defender battling alcoholism and burnout. While investigating the murder of an old friend, he traces clues back to the manвЂTMs own wealthy family. It is here that we first encounter Henry RiosвЂTMs struggle to maintain his faith in a legal system caught between justice and corruption, a theme that will continue throughout the series. From Publishers Weekly This murder mystery about a gay public defender in the San Francisco area is distinguished by good writing and by skillful adaptation of the genre's traditions. Lawyer Henry Rios's loyalty to wealthy wastrel Hugh Paris, with whom he once had a brief affair, strongly recalls the male bonding in Raymond Chandler's classic The Long Goodbye. In both there is a sense of the protagonist as a lost soul trying to justify another person's existence and thereby his own. Through legal documents as much as police work, Rios tracks the murder's clues back to Hugh's family and its conflicts between old money and opportunists, both so greedy and eager to control the family fortune that they will sanction any form of legal trickery, corruption, even murder. Particularly striking is Na

Who reads The Little Death?

Author

Nava, Michael

Publisher

Alyson Books

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780932870964

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, True Crime

Rating

3.94 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14