Mary Reed
Ramos, Manuel
CO
Welcome to the MWA website for Manuel Ramos. Here you can find a bit of information about me and my books. I also encourage you to check out La Bloga - the literary blog I contribute to each week along with six other intrepid writers.
Manuel Ramos, an attorney who also has taught Chicano literature courses at Metropolitan State College of Denver, is the author of eight crime fiction novels. These novels have garnered critical and popular recognition such as the Colorado Book Award and the Chicano/Latino Literary Award (University of California at Irvine), as well as an Edgar nomination from the Mystery Writers of America. Five of the books feature Luis Montez, a Denver attorney who finds himself solving murders because of his clients, old friends, and even family members. The sixth book, Moony's Road to Hell, is a stand-alone, private eye novel. Ramos also has published several short stories. King of the Chicanos is a mainstream novel; while Desperado: A Mile High Noir (2013), is a return to novel-length crime fiction.
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King of the Chicanos Author: Manuel Ramos Published: March 26, 2010 by Wings Press Both heroic and tragic, this novel captures the spirit, energy, and imagination of the 1960s' Chicano movement—a massive and intense struggle across a broad spectrum of political and cultural issues—through the passionate story of the King of the Chicanos, Ramón Hidalgo. From his very humble beginnings through the tumultuous decades of being a migrant farm worker, door-to-door salesman, prison inmate, political hack, and radical activist, the novel relates Hidalgo’s personal failures and self-destructive personality amid the political turmoil of the times. |
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The Last Client of Luis Montez Author: Manuel Ramos Published: June 15, 2004 by Northwestern University Press Series Name: Latino Voices Main Character: Luis Móntez, Lisa Esch, Jesus Móntez Hard-luck attorney Luis Móntez has hit the big-time at last. He's successfully defended Jimmy Esch, the good-for-nothing son of a powerful Denver family. No small bonus, Jimmy's attractive sister Lisa is, as the saying goes, appreciative. It's enough to make a man quit moping about a lost love. What a difference a day makes. Inside of twenty-four hours, a cop rumored to have received bribes from Móntez takes a header off a mountain, Jimmy Esch is found butchered, and the cops consider the attorney their top suspect. Lisa -- Móntez's alibi -- has conveniently disappeared. Click for more info. |
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Blues For The Buffalo Author: Manuel Ramos Published: June 15, 2004 by Northwestern University Press Series Name: Latino Voices Main Character: Luis Móntez, Rachel Espinoza, Jesus Móntez The sun, the sand, a young beauty named Rachel in a white bikini-there's no better way to recover from the aches and pains of your latest case. At least that's what attorney and part-time detective Luis Móntez thinks until the woman gives him the manuscript of her novel and vanishes. Móntez just wants to rebuild his Denver practice, but an aggressive young P.I. with an emotional attachment to Rachel draws him in. With the woman's powerful adopted family on one side and unexplained death of a writer friend on the other, Móntez digs up a series of long-told lies and long-hidden ugly truths. Click for more info. |
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