Legen Sie Ihr schlafendes Haupt (Lay Your Sleeping Head)

Vor dreißig Jahren wurde mit The Little Death der schwule Latino-Strafverteidiger Henry Rios eingeführt, der zur zentralen Figur einer gefeierten siebenteiligen Romanreihe wurde. In a brilliant reimagination of The Little Death, Lay Your Sleeping Head retains all the complexity and elegance of the plot of the original novel but deepens the themes of personal alienation and erotic obsession that both honored the traditions of the American crime novel and turned them on their head. Henry Rios, a gifted and humane lawyer driven to drink by professional failure and personal demons, meets a charming junky struggling to stay clean. He tells Rios an improbable tale of long-ago murders in his wealthy family. Rios is skeptical, but the erotic spark between them ignites an obsessive affair that ends only when the man's body is discovered with a needle in his arm on the campus of a great California university. Rios refuses to believe his lover's death was an accidental overdose. Seine Jagd nach dem Mörder führt ihn durch die Gassen von San Francisco und in die Villen von Nob Hill, wo er die Geheimnisse eines legendären kalifornischen Vermögens und den Grund für den Tod des Mannes, den er liebte, aufdeckt.

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