Lies With Man
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Lies With Man is a finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Mystery
Los Angeles, 1986.
A group of right-wing Christians has put an initiative on the November ballot to allow health officials to force people with HIV into quarantine camps—and it looks like it’s going to pass. Rios, now living in LA, agrees to be counsel for a group of young activists who call themselves QUEER [Queers United to End Erasure and Repression]. QUEER claims to be committed to peaceful civil disobedience. But when one of its members is implicated in the bombing of an evangelical church that kills its pastor, who publicly supported the quarantine initiative, Rios finds himself with a client suddenly facing the death penalty.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Lambda Literary Award–winner Nava's impassioned ninth novel featuring criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios (after 2019's Carved in Bone), it's the fall of 1986 and, as California voters consider a proposition to forcibly quarantine AIDS patients, a bomb planted at Ekklesia, an L.A. evangelical church, kills Daniel Herron, a pastor who endorsed the measure. The police arrest Theo Phillips, a member of Queers United to End Erasure and Repression, a nonviolent activist group, for the crime. When Theo is charged with first degree murder, Henry agrees to defend him. Theo claims he was acting under the orders of his boyfriend, Freddy Saavedra, who has mysteriously disappeared and is not who he appears to be. Henry later uncovers a scheme involving both Ekklesia and the LAPD aimed at decimating the queer community. Flawed characters readers can care about, including Daniel, who was protecting his gay son from the church, complement the twisty plot. This realistic, gritty mystery set during the AIDS crisis is an eye-opener.
