About the Author
Michael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of seven crime novels featuring gay, Mexican-American criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. The Rios novels have won seven Lambda Literary awards, and Nava has been named “one of our best” by The New York Times. In 2001, he was awarded the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award in LGBT Literature. The grandson of Mexican immigrants, he divides his time between San Francisco and Palm Springs.
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