His latest, though, has something special - the scent of memory that lingers as poignantly as a departed lover's cologne. While investigating the murder of an old friend. Rios books: How Town, The Hidden Law, The Death of Friends, The Burning Plain, and Rag and Bone. 1.1 The Little Death (1986) 1.2 Goldenboy (1988) 1.3 How Town (1990) 1.4 The Hidden Law (1992) 1.5 The Death of Friends (1996) 1.6 The Burning Plain (1997). Publishers Weekly said, 'This is a brave, ambitious and highly impressive work.' The San Francisco Chronicle described it as 'A beautifully executed novel, with a classic whodunit at its core.' And People magazine said, 'Nava can devise as canny a plot as he can a defense motion. Henry Rios is introduced as a troubled San Francisco public defender battling alcoholism and burnout. Michael Angel Nava is an American attorney and writer. Buy a discounted Paperback of The Death of Friends online from Australias leading. On the morning after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, Zack Bowen turns up at Rios’s doorstep with the news that Rios’s old friend, Judge Chris Chandler, has been murdered in his downtown L.A.

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