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Carregando... The Little Death (1986)de Michael Nava
  
Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) ChrisWeir | May 30, 2022 |  ) fuzzipueo | Apr 24, 2022 | First MC: 8 Second MC: N/A Secondary characters: 7 Mystery: 9 Sexual tension: 4 Humor: 2 Hotness: 2 Product placement: Ridiculousness: 1 Annoying: 1 Audio: 7 (5h 56min) To re-read: 7 A good old-fashioned book set in the 80s. Rich people who will do anything to stop anyone from taking away their money This is not a romance book. All fade to black sex, just kissing; no throbbing dicks or sticky lube. Henry is lawyer who is seeking to solve a murder mystery. He stumbles into something bigger and drag has the city with him. Lawyers, cops, drug addiction, excessive use of alcohol, bad mothers, and lack of cellphones. ( ) lulumiami | Sep 3, 2017 | Henry Rios is a burnt out public defender. When his addict lover dies, no one is suspicious but him. However, Henry's one time paramour comes from one of the most prestigious families in America, and getting to the bottom of his death will ruffle some very powerful feathers. The Little Death was published more than two decades ago, and its age shows, in that this is a simple mystery with a basic structure you don't see so much now. Henry's homosexuality is a strong part of the story, and the reactions of other characters to it show how far we've come along - or not, in some cases. This also gives the novel a somewhat dated feel. Though the killer was ultimately quite predictable to me, the central mystery hinges on some points of law, and it was refreshing to see the law in a mystery - it so rarely makes a convincing appearance. Overall this was a slight book, but its price was also slight, as was its length, so I was satisfied. (  ) patrickgarson | Mar 13, 2014 | ) Darrol | Jun 19, 2009 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Murder rocks a moneyed San Francisco family in the novel that introduced "a detective unlike any previous protagonist in American noir" (The New Yorker). 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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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