num_pages: 168
description: When a judge leading a double life is murdered, Henry Rios comes to the controversial defense of the prime suspectChris Chandler, a long-married California state superior court judge and family man, has been found dead in his chambers—beaten to death with his recent Judge of the Year award. When his young lover, Zack Bowen, is arrested, Henry Rios takes on Bowen’s defense. For Rios, who has kept Judge Chandler’s secret since law school, it means going up against a closed community—including Chandler’s angry wife and son—to defend a man he believes innocent. Then Bowen vanishes.As Rios copes with tragedies both personal and communal, he finds himself front and center in a case that becomes a test of his own moral courage.
language: English
title: The Death of Friends
titlecomplete: The Death of Friends (Henry Rios Mystery, #5)
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Gay, Contemporary, Crime, Mystery Thriller, M M Romance, Queer, Romance, LGBT
ratings_count: 579
series: The Henry Rios Mysteries, Henry Rios 
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Mystery, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: The Ferro-Grumley Awards
publisher: Alyson Pubns