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Benjamin Justice, once a celebrated journalist in Los Angeles, falls from grace after a Pulitzer scandal and becomes an outcast. Facing his HIV status and a solitary life, he is commissioned to write his autobiography. During this process, Justice engages a childhood priest and, following the funeral‑writer fiancé’s fatal hit‑and‑run, he must investigate the mysterious accident. The case pulls him into a complex web of a long‑hidden child murder, a controversial Cardinal, and revelations about his own past. In "Blind Eye," Justice confronts both external forces and internal demons in a tense, contemporary mystery that continues the series’ reputation for compelling crime fiction.
First publish date: 2003
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: John Morgan Wilson
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