About the Author Michael Nava lives outside San Francisco with his husband. His Henry Rios mystery series has been awarded six Lambda Literary Awards and he is the recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in LGBT literature. He is also the author of an acclaimed historical novel, The City of Palaces, set in Mexico City at the beginning of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. Additionally, he wrote and produced the Henry Rios Mysteries podcast which adapts the first Rios novel into an 18-episode audio-drama and is available on various podcast platforms including Apple I-tunes and Spotify. His small press, Persigo Press, which currently publishes his work will expand to publish other LGBTQ and writers of color who work in genres beginning in fall, 2020. Product Description Rios, raw from the death of his lover from AIDS, becomes involved with a young man who is murdered after spending the night with Rios. Rios becomes a suspect in the murder. In the process of clearing himself, he is drawn into the search for a serial killer who preys on young gay men in West Hollywood. He finds himself up against a homophobic cop, a hostile DA and a conspiracy that reaches into Hollywood’s power elite.

The Burning Plain (A Henry Rios Novel, 6)

Literature & Fiction

Nava, Michael

United States

Persigo Press

The Burning Plain: A Henry Rios Novel (The Henry Rios Mysteries Book 6)

Michael Nava

About the Author\nMichael Nava lives outside San Francisco with his husband. His Henry Rios mystery series has been awarded six Lambda Literary Awards and he is the recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in LGBT literature. He is also the author of an acclaimed historical novel, The City of Palaces, set in Mexico City at the beginning of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. Additionally, he wrote and produced the Henry Rios Mysteries podcast which adapts the first Rios novel into an 18-episode audio-drama and is available on various podcast platforms including Apple I-tunes and Spotify. His small press, Persigo Press, which currently publishes his work will expand to publish other LGBTQ and writers of color who work in genres beginning in fall, 2020.\nAfter Rios suffers a heart attack, he sinks into a depression but he’s soon shaken out of it, first by the prospect of new love and then by the appearance a niece he didn’t know he had and her 10-year-old son. When his niece is accused of shooting her abusive husband, Rios takes a case that is more personal and more emotionally demanding than any other case he has ever faced.

Rag and Bone (A Henry Rios Novel, 7)

Rag and Bone (The Henry Rios Mysteries Book 7)

Carved in Bone: A Henry Rios Novel (Henry Rios Mystery Series, 8)

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.

Carved in Bone: A Henry Rios Novel (Henry Rios Mysteries Book 2)

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for gay mystery, Howtown finds Rios back in his hometown of Los Robles, California defending Paul Windsor, a boyhood acquaintance accusing of murdering a pedophile. Windsor is himself a pedophile and the police believe the murder was the result of an extortion scheme gone wrong. It’s up to Rios to prove otherwise, if he can. To do that, he has to confront the ghosts of his past that still linger in the sleepy river town. Simultaneously, the novel explores Rios’s relationship with his HIV-positive lover, Josh Mandel.

Howtown: A Henry Rios Novel (Henry Rios Mystery Series, 3)

Howtown: A Henry Rios Novel (Henry Rios Mysteries Book 3)

Rios defends Michael Ruiz, a young man accused of murdering Gus Peña, a powerful Los Angeles politician who had had his eye on the Mayor’s office. Meanwhile, Rios must confront the collapse of his relationship with Josh Mandel, his HIV-positive lover.

The Hidden Law: A Henry Rios Novel (Henry Rios Mystery Series, 4)

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The Burning Plain (A Henry Rios Novel, 6)

The Burning Plain: A Henry Rios Novel (The Henry Rios Mysteries Book 6)

Rag and Bone (A Henry Rios Novel, 7)

Rag and Bone (The Henry Rios Mysteries Book 7)

Carved in Bone: A Henry Rios Novel (Henry Rios Mystery Series, 8)

Carved in Bone: A Henry Rios Novel (Henry Rios Mystery Series, 8)

Carved in Bone: A Henry Rios Novel (Henry Rios Mysteries Book 2)

Howtown: A Henry Rios Novel (Henry Rios Mystery Series, 3)

Howtown: A Henry Rios Novel (Henry Rios Mysteries Book 3)

The Hidden Law: A Henry Rios Novel (Henry Rios Mystery Series, 4)