“Living
in America: Voices and Visions”
Manuel
Ramos
Reading Sunday, March 2, 2003
The gritty, compelling world of crime fiction created by Manuel Ramos has been described by Kirkus Reviews as “powerfully elegiac” and “thickly atmospheric” and Ramos has been labeled by Library Journal as “a writer to watch.” The first of the four novels that comprise his Luis Montez saga garnered a Colorado Book Award, the Chicano/Latino Literary Award, and was nominated for an Edgar. His most recent book, Moony’s Road to Hell, follows a new detective into the ugly world of smuggling humans and the predators who victimize the undocumented, on both sides of the border. Ramos lives in Denver, where he is a practicing attorney.
Bibliography
Fiction
Moony’s Road to Hell (2002)
Blues for the Buffalo (1997)
The Last Client of Luis Montez (1996)
The Ballad of Gato Guerrero (1994)
The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz (1993)