Blind Eye

BLIND EYE

Hardcover, St. Martin's Press (2003) ISBN 0312309198
Paperback (Nov. 2004) St. Martin's Press ISBN 031230921X 2004
Lambda Literary Award Winner

Now in his mid-forties, still considered a disgrace to his former profession, HIV-positive, and once again single, Benjamin Justice has once again begun to put his life back together. Under contract to a major publisher to write his autobiography, Benjamin Justice is trying to put all the elements of his life into perspective for the first time. While searching out a priest from his childhood, Justice enlists his closest friend's fiancé - a columnist for the Los Angeles Times - to bring pressure upon the powers that be to reveal the long-hidden truth about this almost forgotten priest. Then his friend's fiancé is killed in a tragic hit-and-run accident and Justice is called upon to look into the mysterious circumstances of the too-convenient accident. Reluctant at first, Justice soon finds himself in the midst of a complex case involving a decades old child murder, a powerful and controversial Cardinal, and elements of his own dark past.

Praise for BLIND EYE

"At a time when so many mystery and suspense authors rely not on a compelling major character who embodies a moral center in a world gone awry, but instead on the glitter and glitz of exotic locales and high-tech chases, Wilson's latest, outstanding Benjamin Justice mystery, thanks to its dark, groping, fatally flawed, but redeemable hero, comes like food to a starving genre... At its best, Wilson's work recalls the best of Graham Greene's mysteries. He writes meditations on repentance and forgiveness as well as whodunits, giving discerning readers reason to rejoice. His contemplation of the anguished soul and its redemption makes him Greene's heir apparent and the savior of the mystery as morality play."--Booklist

"Though unlikely to get the Church's imprimatur, Justice's fifth is his finest yet: a white-hot expose fueled by anger, bewilderment, and pain."--Kirkus starred review