Henry Rios tries to reveal the crime in which his friend, Chris Chandler, a Supreme Court Judge, was found murdered. Chris was a closeted homosexual and the night that he was murdered, Chris's boyfriend came to Henry for help. On the other hand, Henry must deal with the last days of Josh, his lover ...
The third book in Henry Rios mystery brings Henry back to his home town and his estranged sister, when he is asked to defend a pedophile who has been accused of murder. I was surprised by the amount of animosity I had for the defendant. I despise pedophile as much as I despise rapist. While the back...
In this 2nd book of the series, Henry Rios was asked by a friend to defend a gay-teenager accused of killing another teenager. In the course of the book, the kid claimed his innocence, and he ended up with suicide attempt in jail -- which dismissed the case. This happened, like, on the first half of...
I'm a follower of Harry Bosch mystery and I have yet able to find a similar tone of crime/mystery series from other authors (duly noted, I have not tried many). I tried Robert Craise, but Elvis Cole doesn't feel like Harry. So I'm long to find a hero that feels "alone" but at the same time do his jo...
It's his series with Henry Rios' the latino lawyer, recovering alcoholic, gay and helping his lover dying of AIDS during his last days. The whodunit is actually quite interesting, the relationships between the main characters have some depth and are intriguing. I liked this particular title enough t...
[These notes were made in 1992:]. The title is from a poem by e.e. cummings, but this is not just a modern novel, it's an up-to-the-minute one, reflecting today's biggest concerns - AIDS, child abuse, corruption in law enforcement, racism. Rios is a Hispanic Los Angeles lawyer whose lover, Josh, is...
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