Big Red Tequila

Big Red Tequila (Bantam, 1997) is the first novel in Rick Riordan's Tres Navarre series and Riordan's first published book. It is a fast-paced crime story about an unusually talented and flawed hero, Jackson "Tres" Navarre, a third-generation Texan, who has a PhD from Berkeley in medieval studies and English, works as an unlicensed private investigator, and is a tai chi master.

Big Red Tequila

Author	Rick Riordan
Language	English
Genre	Mystery
Published	1997
Publisher	Bantam
Publication place	United States

This novel won the Anthony Award for best original paperback and the Shamus Award for best First Private Investigator novel in 1997.^[1]

Premise

After ten years in the San Francisco Bay area, Tres Navarre returns home to San Antonio, Texas, to investigate the unsolved murder of his father, Bexar County Sheriff Jackson Navarre, and to rekindle a romance with his high school sweetheart, local art gallery owner Lillian Cambridge. The more Tres looks into the unsolved crime, the more trouble comes his way, and the more plunged into danger he gets.