Justice at Risk: A Benjamin Justice Mystery - Hardcover

Wilson, John Morgan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385491166 ISBN 13: 9780385491167

Publisher: Doubleday, 1999

Synopsis

A once celebrated gay journalist discredited by his profession, Benjamin Justice is delighted when he is hired to write a controversial episode in a TV series about AIDS, only to become caught up in an investigation into a fifteen-year-old bias crime and modern murder.

About this title

About the Author

John Morgan Wilson's first Benjamin Justice mystery, Simple Justice, won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. The second, Revision of Justice, was also nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Wilson lives in West Hollywood, California, where he is now at work on the fourth Justice novel.

From the Inside Flap

ark and dangerous episode in John Morgan Wilson's award-winning series.

Benjamin Justice, once a celebrated journalist, then discredited and disowned by his profession, has just turned forty, and surprisingly, things are looking up. He's started to get a few writing assignments, he's stopped drinking and started working out, and he's just been introduced to a whole new career. However, as Justice would be the first to suggest, now is the time to watch out for the sucker punch.

Hired to write one of the most sensitive and controversial episodes in a documentary television series on AIDS, Justice falls into instant lust for his associate producer, an Adonis-like straight young man half his age. Together they go off in search of the episode's producer, who has not been seen or heard from in almost a week. When they arrive at his motel, he's still not to be found, but the room has been trashed, and there's blood on the mattress.

The violence is soon linked to a fifte

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385491166
• ISBN 13: 9780385491167
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 293