Jilles asked Michael Nava:

When you published the Henry Rios series, these books where a beautiful example of what the internal life of a gay man could be like; Henry was my role-model. Last year I fell in love with him all over again when you published 'Lay Your Sleeping Head'. Now I hear you are going to publish a new Rios book. Am looking forward to meeting him again. Any idea when that will be? Jilles from Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Michael Nava Dear Jilles, first I apologize for the delay in responding to your question. Honestly, I set up this account and then it got lost in the press of other social media. I plan to be better about checking this site.

So, thank you for your kind words. I've started my own small press to re-publish slightly revised editions of the existing Rios novels and to publish new books in the series. The first new Rios novel in 20 years, called Carved in Bone, will be released on October 1.

Here's a brief synopsis:
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.

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