![]() ![]() Each novel has been published to critical acclaim in our gay presses and in this nation’s major periodicals, and all of the Rios books have attained international publication. Since the inception of the Lambda Literary Awards, every Rios novel has been nominated for the award, and four have won. That these luminous, elegantly written novels transcend their genre and may be judged against the highest literary standards is hardly arguable. The seven-novel panorama of the life and times and trials–trials intensely personal as well as professional–of Henry Rios comprises the most distinguished and iconoclastic gay mystery series to grace the pages of American literature. If Michael Nava’s fictional Latino attorney Henry Rios were to be assigned a literary pedigree, he might well be deemed an offspring of Joseph Hansen’s pioneering gay insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter. MaRag and Bone-the last Henry Rios novel? Say it isn’t so. ![]()
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