Simple Justice
Description
A Benjamin Justice Thriller, Book 1 - It's 1994, an election year when violent crime is rampant, voters want action, and politicians smell blood. When a Latino teenager confesses to the murder of a pretty-boy cokehead outside a gay bar in L.A., the cops consider the case closed. But Benjamin Justice, a disgraced former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, sees something in the jailed boy others don't. His former editor, Harry Brofsky, now toiling at the rival Los Angeles Sun, pries Justice from his alcoholic seclusion to help neophyte reporter Alexandra Templeton dig deeper into the story. But why would a seemingly decent kid confess to a brutal gang initiation killing if he wasn't guilty? And how can Benjamin Justice possibly be trusted, given his central role in the Pulitzer scandal that destroyed his career? Snaking his way through shadowy neighborhoods and dubious suspects, he's increasingly haunted by memories of his lover Jacques, whose death from AIDS six years earlier precipitated his fall from grace. As he unravels emotionally, Templeton attempts to solve the riddle of his dark past and ward off another meltdown as they race against a critical deadline to uncover and publish the truth.Awarded an Edgar by Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel on initial release, this 25th Anniversary edition has been revised by the author. A foreword for the 2020 edition by Christopher Rice (Bone Music) is included.Product Details
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About the Author
A New York Times bestseller since his first publication at the age of twenty-two, Christopher Rice is the author of Bone Music (an Amazon Charts bestseller and the first novel in the Burning Girl series) and its sequels, Blood Echo and Blood Victory, as well as the Bram Stoker Award finalists The Heavens Rise and The Vines. His second novel, The Snow Garden, received a Lambda Literary Award. He is an executive producer on the television adaptations of The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice; and he also collaborated with her on Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra and Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris, two sequels to her phenomenally popular novel The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned. Together with his best friend and producing partner--New York Times bestselling novelist Eric Shaw Quinn--Christopher runs the production company Dinner Partners. Among other projects, they produce the podcast and video network TDPS, which you can find at www.TheDinnerPartyShow.com. As C. Travis Rice, Christopher writes tales of romance between men. Learn more about Christopher at www.christopherricebooks.com.