Determined to find Paris’s killer, Rios knocks on San Francisco’s most gilded doors, where he discovers a family tainted by jealousy, greed, and hate. Skittish and paranoid, he admits to using heroin and says he’s afraid that his wealthy grandfather wants to murder him.Rios tries to help Paris get clean, but when Paris is found dead of an apparent heroin overdose, Rios is the only one who considers foul play. Paris is mysteriously bailed out-but a few weeks later, he turns up on Rios’s doorstep. While interviewing Paris in jail, Rios goes through the motions, but notices that Paris is far more polished and well-off than the usual drug suspects. A burnt-out public defender battling alcoholism, Rios has reached a crossroads in his life. Henry Rios meets Hugh Paris when Paris is arrested for drug possession and being high on PCP. In the first book of the acclaimed Henry Rios series about a gay public defender in 1980s San Francisco, Henry Rios doggedly pursues a murder investigation into the lions’ den of San Francisco’s moneyed elite
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