Michael Nava

16 September 1954

Michael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of eight novels featuring gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios who Garth Greenwell, writing in The New Yorker, called “a detective unlike any previous protagonist in American noir.” The New York Times Book Review has called Nava “one of our best” writers. He is also the author of a historical novel, The City of Palaces, set in Mexico at the beginning of the 1910 Mexican revolution, the first of a projected trilogy.

• The little death
• Rag and Bone
• Lay your sleeping head
• The Death of Friends
• Goldenboy
• How Town
• The burning plain
• The Hidden Law
• Created equal
• The little death
• Adieu aux amis chers (French Edition)
• Carved in Bone