The Little Death

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781453297742

<DIV><DIV><DIV><B>Murder rocks a moneyed San Francisco family in the novel that introduced &ldquo;</B><B>a detective unlike any previous protagonist in American noir&rdquo; (<I>The New Yorker</I>).</B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> 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&rsquo;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&mdash;and one of Rios&rsquo;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&rsquo;s door&mdash;paranoid, shaken, and terrified that his grandfather wants to murder him.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> 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&rsquo;s most gilded doors, where he discovers a family tainted by jealousy and greed, warped by a fortune someone&rsquo;s willing to kill&mdash;and kill again&mdash;to possess.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> The first novel in the Lambda Literary Award&ndash;winning series that Christopher Bram calls &ldquo;a large-scale moral portrait of one man&rsquo;s life,&rdquo; <I>The Little Death</I> 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.<BR /> &#160;</DIV></DIV></DIV>