num_pages: 304
description: Following the death of his lover and a scandal involving his Pulitzer Prize-winning article, crime reporter Benjamin Justice has fallen into a hazy, alcoholic reclusiveness, hiding out in the West Hollywood neighborhood known as the Norma Triangle. He is called back to the world of the living by an unexpected, and unwelcome, visit from Harry Brofsky, his former boss. Brofsky wants Ben to do some background work (strictly off the record) with another reporter on the investigation of a seemingly motiveless killing outside a local gay bar.Sucked in for reasons even he doesn't quite understand, Justice finds himself back in the life of gay bars, spurned lovers, dysfunctional families, and tawdry secrets--all the things he had been trying to escape. While fending off passes from his sexy, young female partner, he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with the man he must ultimately nail for murder--a killing that turns out to have far more personal and political implications than a simple bias crime.Simple Justice is a subtly plotted mystery that takes a piercing look at not only violent crime but violations of the heart and soul in the sometimes glamorous, more often dark and dangerous gay life of West Hollywood.
language: English
title: Simple Justice
titlecomplete: Simple Justice (Benjamin Justice, #1)
characters: Benjamin Justice
genres: LGBT, Gay, Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Romance, Contemporary, Crime, M M Romance, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 366
places: West Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California
series: Benjamin Justice
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Mystery
publisher: Crimeline