The Little Death
By Michael Nava
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Henry Rios is a Latino public defender battling alcoholism, dangerously close to burning out. Accustomed to dealing with the minor offenses of the disenfranchised, he’s reached a crossroads in his life. His new client, Hugh Paris, who has been arrested for drug possession, is the black-sheep scion of an important and prosperous San Francisco family—and one of Rios’s former lovers. Rios understands lost souls a little too well and has always stayed loyal to the troubled and wealthy wastrel. But no sooner does a mysterious benefactor bail him out, than Paris shows up on Rios’s door—paranoid, shaken, and terrified that his grandfather wants to murder him.
When Paris is found dead of an apparent heroin overdose, Rios is the only one who considers foul play. Determined to find the truth, he knocks on the Bay Area’s most gilded doors, where he discovers a family tainted by jealousy and greed, warped by a fortune someone’s willing to kill—and kill again—to possess.
The first novel in the Lambda Literary Award–winning series that Christopher Bram calls “a large-scale moral portrait of one man’s life,” The Little Death is at once an atmospheric noir mystery set in 1980s California and a scathing indictment of the power of old money and a legal system caught in the maws of escalating corruption.
Michael Nava
Michael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of seven crime novels featuring gay, Mexican-American criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. The Rios novels have won seven Lambda Literary awards and Nava was called by the New York Times, “one of our best.” In 2001, he was awarded the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award in LGBT Literature. A native Californian and the grandson of Mexican immigrants, he divides his time between San Francisco and Palm Springs.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fantastic beginning to an intense and fascinating mystery series featuring Henry Rios, a Hispanic and gay man. Must read for fans of good M/M books who also like noirs.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Henry Rios is in his early thirties. a lawyer and successful Public Defender, but he has reached a crisis point in his life, he is considered by some to be burned, but his life is about to take a new direction, his latest case is to be the catalyst for the change.Henry, who is openly gay, is called to defend the handsome young Hugh Paris, a gay man on relatively minor charges. As it turns out Henry's services are not required, but that is not the end of his association with Hugh. As a result he not only finds himself emotionally involved with Hugh, but soon find himself compelled to investigate in a multiple murder mystery which nobody wants to get involved in, and up against some very wealthy and influential people. The Little Death, the first in a series of Henry Rios novels, is a well written and carefully constructed mystery made all the more appealing through the creation of the openly gay and thoroughly convincing lead character Henry Rios, a caring man with strong moral principles, and a man looking for that someone special with whom to share his life.A very successful lawyer himself, and once considered for the a United States Supreme Court seat, Michael Nava's second book in the series is Golden Boy, which is now a must read!