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The Death of Friends

by Michael Nava

Series: Henry Rios Mystery (5)

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Info:	Bantam (1998), Mass Market Paperback, 256 pages
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This is easily the most suspenseful of the Michae Nava mysteries I've read. The crime is good, the whodunnit is good, but the path to clearing Rios' client's name is nearly brilliant. You know you're reading a good book when you want to reach into the pages and punch one of the characters (that flippen Detective-woman - growl)...!! Good page-turner indeed!! (

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Series (with order)

Henry Rios Mystery (5)

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The Death of Friends

Original publication date

1996

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Henry Rios

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Lambda Literary Award (Gay Men's Mystery, 1996)

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The dark, hidden corners of a murdered judge's life are discovered when the dead man's young male lover asks gay lawyer Henry Rios to protect him from suspicion. Rios must tread carefully: the judge's wife has no clue as to her husband's bixexual life.

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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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