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Michael Nava

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September 16, 1954

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Mystery, Thriller, Gay and Lesbian

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Michael Nava is the author of a groundbreaking series of crime novels featuring a gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. Nava is a six-time recipient of the Lambda Literary Award in the mystery category, as well as the Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award for gay and lesbian literature.

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Michael Nava I am finishing up my podcast, The Henry Rios Mysteries, which adapts the first novel into an 18-episode audio drama. I am in the process of producing …moreI am finishing up my podcast, The Henry Rios Mysteries, which adapts the first novel into an 18-episode audio drama. I am in the process of producing a new Rios novel, Carved in Bone, for publication on October 1, from my own small press, Persigo Press, and I am in the thinking and research stages of a new Rios novel.(less)

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When you published the Henry Rios series, these books where a beautiful example of what the internal life of a gay man could be like; Henry was my role-model. Last year I fell in love with him all over again when you published 'Lay Your Sleeping Head'. Now I hear you are going to publish a new Rios book. Am looking forward to meeting him again. Any idea when that will be? Jilles from Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Michael Nava Dear Jilles, first I apologize for the delay in responding to your question. Honestly, I set up this account and then it got lost in the press of othe…moreDear Jilles, first I apologize for the delay in responding to your question. Honestly, I set up this account and then it got lost in the press of other social media. I plan to be better about checking this site.

So, thank you for your kind words. I've started my own small press to re-publish slightly revised editions of the existing Rios novels and to publish new books in the series. The first new Rios novel in 20 years, called Carved in Bone, will be released on October 1.

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November, 1984. Criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios, fresh out of rehab and picking up the pieces of his life, reluctantly accepts work as an insurance claims investigator and is immediately is assigned to investigate the apparently accidental death of Bill Ryan. Ryan, part of the great gay migration into San Francisco in the 1970s, has died in his flat of carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty gas line, his young lover barely surviving. Rios’s investigation into Ryan’s death – which Rios becomes convinced was no accident – tracks Ryan’s life from his arrival in San Francisco as a terrified 18-year-old to his transformation into a successful businessman. What begins for Rios as the search for the truth about Bill Ryan’s death becomes the search for the meaning of Ryan’s life as the tsunami of AIDS bears down on the gay community. (less)

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	The Little Death (Henry Rios Mystery, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 871 ratings — published 1986 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lay Your Sleeping Head (Henry Rios #1) by Michael Nava (Goodreads Author), Michael Hames-García (Foreword) 4.27 avg rating — 785 ratings — published 2016 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carved in Bone (Henry Rios #2) 4.50 avg rating — 739 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3) 4.27 avg rating — 736 ratings — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Death of Friends (Henry Rios Mystery, #5) 4.46 avg rating — 640 ratings — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rag and Bone (Henry Rios Mystery, #7) 4.44 avg rating — 609 ratings — published 2001 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hidden Law (Henry Rios Mystery, #4) 4.33 avg rating — 622 ratings — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Burning Plain (Henry Rios Mystery, #6) 4.29 avg rating — 617 ratings — published 1997 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goldenboy (Henry Rios Mystery, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 588 ratings — published 1988 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lies with Man (Henry Rios, #3) 4.46 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Lay Your Sleeping Head Podcast Episode 7

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In the summer of 1982, Henry Rios is a young public defender working in Linden, a small town thirty-miles south of San Francisco. Linden is home to the great university founded by railroad magnate Grover Linden at the end of the ninetee

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“You know, Henry, we're the only people who get born into the enemy camp. I mean, black babies get born into black families, Jewish babies get born into Jewish families, but gay babies, we get born into straight families. How we survive it all is a miracle.”
― Michael Nava, The Hidden Law

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“I'm sorry about today."
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"I was bored and lonely."
"Some would call that the human condition.”
― Michael Nava, The Little Death

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