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1986 | 1st ed | Alyson Publications | 168 p. : geneal. table ; 21 cm. | On Shelf (library use only) Sacramento Room SPE fic m Nava SAC |
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2013 | OverDrive | Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
Murder rocks a moneyed San Francisco family in the novel that introduced "a detective unlike any previous protagonist in American noir" (The New Yorker).
Henry Rios is a Latino public defender battling alcoholism, dangerously close to burning out. Accustomed to dealing with the minor offenses of the disenfranchised, he's reached a crossroads in his life. His new client, Hugh Paris, who has been arrested for drug
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1988 | 1st ed | Alyson | 215 p. ; 23 cm. | On Shelf Central MYSTERY Nava |
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2013 | OverDrive | Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
In his latest case, Henry Rios may have something few defense attorneys ever experience: a truly innocent clientIt's a cause Henry Rios can't resist: defending a young gay man on trial for killing the coworker who threatened to out him. Jim Pears is charged with first-degree murder; Pears says he's innocent but the evidence is damning. Pears was found covered in the victim's blood and with the murder weapon in his hand. But nothing about the People
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c1990 | 1st ed | Harper & Row | 244 p. ; 22 cm. | On Shelf (library use only) Sacramento Room SPE fic SAC |
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2013 | OverDrive | Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
The fourth novel in Michael Nava's award-winning series takes Henry Rios back to his roots when he defends a Latino teenager accused of murder
State senator and mayoral hopeful Gus Peña has been gunned down in the parking lot of a restaurant in East Los Angeles. When Chicano teen and ex–gang member Michael Ruiz is arrested for the murder, Henry Rios takes the case. It's a tough road: As Rios endures a painful break-up
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2013 | OverDrive | Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
When a judge leading a double life is murdered, Henry Rios comes to the controversial defense of the prime suspect
Chris Chandler, a long-married and closeted California state superior court judge, has been found dead in his chambers—beaten to death with his recent Judge of the Year award. When his young lover, Zack Bowen, is arrested, Henry Rios takes on Bowen's defense. For Rios, who has kept Judge Chandler's secret since
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2013 | OverDrive | Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
Attorney Henry Rios fights for his freedom and his own life when a homophobic serial killer targets gay men in Los Angeles
Defense attorney Henry Rios knows how the system can be weighted against you . . . especially if you're gay. His worst nightmare becomes a reality when a man he had been on a date with the night before is slain. Relentlessly pursued by a homophobic Los Angeles Police Department cop, Rios goes from prime suspect
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2013 | OverDrive | Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
In Michael Nava's final Henry Rios mystery, the gay Latino lawyer faces his most daunting personal and professional challenges as he comes to terms with his past—and a cache of family secrets
Henry Rios was dead for fifty-seven seconds when he suffered a heart attack in the courtroom. While he recovers, his sister, Elena, stays with him at the hospital, and they begin to repair their strained relationship, finally airing their
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2019 | First edition | Persigo Press | 369 pages ; 21 cm | On Shelf Central MYSTERY Nava, M. |
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2021 | Hoopla | Bywater Books | 1 online resource (282 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2021 | OverDrive | Bywater Books | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
Lies With Man is a finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Mystery
Los Angeles, 1986.
A group of right-wing Christians has put an initiative on the November ballot to allow health officials to force people with HIV into quarantine camps—and it looks like it's going to pass. Rios, now living in LA, agrees to be counsel for a group of young activists who call themselves QUEER [Queers United
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