Manuel Ramos is an American Latino author best known for writing Chicano thrillers and mysteries, a few poems and numerous short stories. The retired lawyer has published several novels the most popular of which is the Luis Montez series. The Luis Montez series features the lead protagonist Luis Montez, a Denver lawyer, and amateur sleuth. For his community and professional service Ramos has been the recipient of the Spirit of Tlatelolco Award, the Chris Miranda Award by the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association, and the Jacob V. Schaetzel Award by the Colorado Bar Association. His works have won him the University of California at Irvine Latino/Chicano Literary Award, the Colorado Author’s League Top Hand Award, and the Colorado Book Award. Apart
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He has always had a fascination with authors and their writing and one of his best memories is the day he learned that he was the winner of the Latino/Chicano Literary Prize for his debut novel The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz. He had always wanted to become a member of the writers club, but even as it took him decades to get in, the award finally did it for him. He gets most of his inspiration for his works from every conceivable source including the TV, Internet. Another important inspiration is his wife Hernandez Ramos who he asserts has a highly developed sense of adventure, fun, and imagination that has found its ways into his novels. While he writes crime fiction, he asserts that nothing is ever as good as his reality themed works. He got into crime fiction since he has always enjoyed the hard boiled, detective fiction and mystery fiction from the likes of Agatha Christie, James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler. Given his attachment to crime fiction since his youth, it was inevitable that he would gravitate toward the genre as an adult. With his debut mystery novel The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz attaining much commercial success and critical acclaim he knew that there was no other genre he would rather be writing his novels …show more content…
Luis Montez a middle aged world-weary attorney with a taste for history, politics, culture, and activism for the Latino/Chicano community in Colorado. Two decades ago, Rocky Ruiz the leader of a Chicano student activist group was shot and killed while giving a speech to a group of Chicano students. However, twenty years later some members of that group find themselves in danger once again. One is beaten, another killed, while another is forced to flee for his life. A beautiful young lawyer named Teresa Fuentes fights her feelings for Montez while trying to solve the decades old mystery. If they are to solve the mystery, they have to examine the murder of their mutual friend Rocky Ruiz that brings up difficult shared memories. Try as he may, Montez just like Fuentes, finds it increasingly difficult to banish his feelings for Teresa even as they get closer to resolving the
He has always had a fascination with authors and their writing and one of his best memories is the day he learned that he was the winner of the Latino/Chicano Literary Prize for his debut novel The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz. He had always wanted to become a member of the writers club, but even as it took him decades to get in, the award finally did it for him. He gets most of his inspiration for his works from every conceivable source including the TV, Internet. Another important inspiration is his wife Hernandez Ramos who he asserts has a highly developed sense of adventure, fun, and imagination that has found its ways into his novels. While he writes crime fiction, he asserts that nothing is ever as good as his reality themed works. He got into crime fiction since he has always enjoyed the hard boiled, detective fiction and mystery fiction from the likes of Agatha Christie, James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler. Given his attachment to crime fiction since his youth, it was inevitable that he would gravitate toward the genre as an adult. With his debut mystery novel The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz attaining much commercial success and critical acclaim he knew that there was no other genre he would rather be writing his novels …show more content…
Luis Montez a middle aged world-weary attorney with a taste for history, politics, culture, and activism for the Latino/Chicano community in Colorado. Two decades ago, Rocky Ruiz the leader of a Chicano student activist group was shot and killed while giving a speech to a group of Chicano students. However, twenty years later some members of that group find themselves in danger once again. One is beaten, another killed, while another is forced to flee for his life. A beautiful young lawyer named Teresa Fuentes fights her feelings for Montez while trying to solve the decades old mystery. If they are to solve the mystery, they have to examine the murder of their mutual friend Rocky Ruiz that brings up difficult shared memories. Try as he may, Montez just like Fuentes, finds it increasingly difficult to banish his feelings for Teresa even as they get closer to resolving the