14 Best lgbt books like Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3) by Michael Nava

Cover of Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3) by Michael Nava

Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

By: Michael Nava

5.00

Format: None pages, ebook

A controversial case brings lawyer Henry Rios back home to Oakland--and into the sights of a stone-…

If you liked the lgbt plot in Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3) by Michael Nava , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Three Nick Nowak Mysteries (Boystown #1) by Marshall Thornton

1. Three Nick Nowak Mysteries (Boystown #1)

By: Marshall Thornton

3.86

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Finalist for the Lambda Award in Gay Mystery, Boystown: Three Nick Nowak Mysteries takes place in C… read more

Similar categories in Marshall Thornton's Three Nick Nowak Mysteries (Boystown #1) book and Michael Nava's Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Lies That Bind (Boystown #8) by Marshall Thornton

2. The Lies That Bind (Boystown #8)

By: Marshall Thornton

4.50

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

The eighth book of the best-selling Boystown Mystery Series begins with a phone call in the middle … read more

Similar categories in Marshall Thornton's The Lies That Bind (Boystown #8) book and Michael Nava's Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • queer
"I’m not as Catholic as I used to be. I find that I can’t believe in a God who would punish anyone for the way he made them. A God who punishes is something mankind created as a way to hurt and contro…"

-Marshall Thornton, The Lies That Bind (Boystown #8)

Cover of Bourbon Street Blues (Scotty Bradley, #1) by Greg Herren

3. Bourbon Street Blues (Scotty Bradley, #1)

By: Greg Herren

3.51

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Native boy Scotty Bradley knows how to bend his hometown's every unwritten rule. it doesn't hurt th… read more

Similar categories in Greg Herren's Bourbon Street Blues (Scotty Bradley, #1) book and Michael Nava's Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • queer
Cover of A Time For Secrets (Boystown #4) by Marshall Thornton

4. A Time For Secrets (Boystown #4)

By: Marshall Thornton

3.50

Format: None pages,

In the first full-length novel of the Boystown series, it's late summer 1982 and private detective … read more

Similar categories in Marshall Thornton's A Time For Secrets (Boystown #4) book and Michael Nava's Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3) by Michael Nava

5. Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

By: Michael Nava

5.00

Format: None pages, ebook

A controversial case brings lawyer Henry Rios back home to Oakland--and into the sights of a stone-… read more

Similar categories in Michael Nava's Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3) book and Michael Nava's Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • queer
Cover of Simple Justice (Benjamin Justice, #1) by John Morgan Wilson

6. Simple Justice (Benjamin Justice, #1)

By: John Morgan Wilson

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Following the death of his lover and a scandal involving his Pulitzer Prize-winning article, crime … read more

Similar categories in John Morgan Wilson's Simple Justice (Benjamin Justice, #1) book and Michael Nava's Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

7. Bloodlines (Boystown #7)

By: Marshall Thornton

3.65

Format: 304 pages,

WINNER LAMBDA AWARD GAY MYSTERY In the seventh book of the best-selling Boystown Mystery series, Pr… read more

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8. From the Ashes (Boystown #6)

By: Marshall Thornton

3.19

Format: None pages,

It's winter 1984. Private Investigator Nick Nowak has allowed his life to fall to pieces: He's stop… read more

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9. Three More Nick Nowak Mysteries (Boystown #2)

By: Marshall Thornton

4.03

Format: None pages,

In the second Boystown collection, Chicago private investigator Nick Nowak finds himself involved w… read more

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10. Fadeout (Dave Brandstetter, #1)

By: Joseph Hansen

4.24

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Fadeoutis the first of Joseph Hansen's twelve classic mysteries featuring rugged Dave Brandstetter,… read more

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11. Death Claims (Dave Brandstetter, #2)

By: Joseph Hansen

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Death Claimsis the second of Joseph Hansen's acclaimed mysteries featuring ruggedly masculine Dave … read more

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12. Murder Book (Boystown #5)

By: Marshall Thornton

4.50

Format: None pages,

Finalist, Lambda Award - Gay Mystery 2013 In the fifth book of the award-winning Boystown mystery s… read more

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13. Lucky Days (Boystown, #9)

By: Marshall Thornton

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Kindle Edition

In the ninth book of the bestselling mystery series, a young man wakes up covered in blood and no m… read more

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Cover of You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

14. You Should Be So Lucky

By: Cat Sebastian

4.39

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, b… read more

Similar categories in Cat Sebastian's You Should Be So Lucky book and Michael Nava's Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • queer
"Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"But he also wants that feeling he had earlier, that feeling of being seen for who he is, and of being liked anyway."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"This urge to be kind to a relative stranger is unfamiliar and disconcerting, as if he's discovered in himself a hunger for raw meat or an enthusiasm for vaudeville."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"The actual problem is incredibly boring, and Mark hates admitting it even to himself. Unless a couple has the good fortune to get hit by the same freight train, their story ends in exactly one way. H…"

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

Cover of Help Wanted (Pinx Video Mysteries #6) by Marshall Thornton

15. Help Wanted (Pinx Video Mysteries #6)

By: Marshall Thornton

4.28

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

In the sixth Pinx Video Mystery, Noah is thrilled that it's been months and months since he's been … read more

Similar categories in Marshall Thornton's Help Wanted (Pinx Video Mysteries #6) book and Michael Nava's Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • mystery
  • crime
  • queer
Cover of Murder in Shades of Wood and Stone (DS Charlie Rees #2) by Ripley Hayes

16. Murder in Shades of Wood and Stone (DS Charlie Rees #2)

By: Ripley Hayes

4.40

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

An early morning phone call. A dead teenager. A bunch of hostile witnesses with a wedding to attend… read more

Similar categories in Ripley Hayes's Murder in Shades of Wood and Stone (DS Charlie Rees #2) book and Michael Nava's Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • mystery
  • crime
  • queer
Cover of Hidden Treasures (A Pinx Video Mystery, #2) by Marshall Thornton

17. Hidden Treasures (A Pinx Video Mystery, #2)

By: Marshall Thornton

4.33

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s about a dress. A valuable blue sequined dress worn by a famed actress in a film from the 1940s… read more

Similar categories in Marshall Thornton's Hidden Treasures (A Pinx Video Mystery, #2) book and Michael Nava's Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Heart's Desire (Boystown #11) by Marshall Thornton

18. Heart's Desire (Boystown #11)

By: Marshall Thornton

4.45

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s February 1985. Nick struggles to recover from a gunshot wound, while taking on the case of a w… read more

Similar categories in Marshall Thornton's Heart's Desire (Boystown #11) book and Michael Nava's Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of A Mean Season (Dom Reilly Mysteries, #2) by Marshall Thornton

19. A Mean Season (Dom Reilly Mysteries, #2)

By: Marshall Thornton

4.56

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Dom Reilly is back. In this follow up to Year of the Rat, Dom helps clear three men wrongly convict… read more

Similar categories in Marshall Thornton's A Mean Season (Dom Reilly Mysteries, #2) book and Michael Nava's Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Year of the Rat (Dom Reilly Mysteries, #1) by Marshall Thornton

20. Year of the Rat (Dom Reilly Mysteries, #1)

By: Marshall Thornton

4.51

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Long Beach, California 1996. Despite having little obvious experience, bartender Dom Reilly is hire… read more

Similar categories in Marshall Thornton's Year of the Rat (Dom Reilly Mysteries, #1) book and Michael Nava's Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • queer
Cover of Fade Out (Boystown, #13) by Marshall Thornton

21. Fade Out (Boystown, #13)

By: Marshall Thornton

4.53

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

The Lambda Award-winning Boystown Mystery series comes to a close with Boystown 13: Fade Out. When … read more

Similar categories in Marshall Thornton's Fade Out (Boystown, #13) book and Michael Nava's Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

12 best-selling fiction books like Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3) by Michael Nava

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Three Nick Nowak Mysteries (Boystown #1)

Marshall Thornton

3.86

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The Lies That Bind (Boystown #8)

Marshall Thornton

4.50

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Bourbon Street Blues (Scotty Bradley, #1)

Greg Herren

3.51

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A Time For Secrets (Boystown #4)

Marshall Thornton

3.50

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10 best-selling fiction books like Year of the Rat (Dom Reilly Mysteries, #1) by Marshall Thornton

Transform Your Habits

Howtown (Henry Rios Mystery, #3)

Michael Nava

5.00

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Death in the Spires

K.J. Charles

4.42

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The Mystery of the Spirits (Snow & Winter, #5)

C.S. Poe

4.40

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The Mystery of the Moving Image (Snow & Winter, #3)

C.S. Poe

4.29

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