When one of his old college friends is murdered, Luis Montez, a Chicano attorney, tries to discover any connections between the murder and an important event in their past

The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz

Literature & Fiction

Ramos, Manuel

United States

St Martins Pr

In the second mystery by the author of The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz, lawyer Luis Montez journeys from Denver to New Mexico to help his friend Gato escape a girlfriend's crime-lord husband and a temperamental ex-father-in-law.

The Ballad of Gato Guerrero

st.martins press

Celebrating the successful acquittal of his latest client, Chicano lawyer and former activist Luis Montez is stunned when the client is killed the following day, an event that results in Luis's own arrest for murder.

The Last Client of Luis Montez

When Conrad Valdez is hired to locate the missing Rachel Espinoza he opens the investigation with a visit to one of the last people the missing girl spoke to--Denver attorney Luis Montez--only to find that Rachel's novel-in-progress has been stolen from Montez's desk

Blues for the Buffalo: A Luis Montez Mystery

Nearing the end of his rope, middle-aged attorney Luis Montez, a former Chicano activist, encounters a beautiful Latina lawyer from his past and is reminded of the murder of his friend, the head of the Chicano student movement. Reprint.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Pursuing a major case against the Denver Police Department, attorney Luis Montez attempts to help a friend and is caught between a pair of lovers on the run and a local crime lord with a nasty temper. Reprint.

Mystery Writers of America Presents: Luis Montez, the Chicano lawyer with "hangdog charisma," was the last person seen with Rachel, the beautiful missing writer. Now someone's trying to kill him. For Luis Montez, Denver attorney perennially on the edge of disaster, even a vacation can mean trouble. Mentally exhausted and severely banged up from his most recent misadventures, Luis accepts a friend's offer to relax on a Mexican beach. But things just don't work out the way he plans. Rachel, the young and mysterious woman he meets on the beach, disappears, and when Luis returns to Denver to try to resuscitate his law practice, he finds a flashy and tough private eye pressing him for details. Rachel is a member of a wealthy, powerful family that will stop at nothing to find her-and Luis is the last person known to have seen her. To keep the professional detective at bay, Luis embarks on his own investigation, one that takes him deep into the dark worlds of petty hoodlums, rich men's fantasies, and the underbelly of Denver's fringe literary community. In a novel that Publisher's Weekly said is permeated with "wonderful smells, sounds and flavors," Manuel Ramos weaves a compelling tale that has Luis Montez ducking bullets and firebombs, and uncovering ugly secrets hidden for years.

Blues for the Buffalo

Mystery Writers of Amer Presents

This debut novel in the acclaimed Luis Montez series introduced a hero unique in detective fiction: a world-weary middle-aged lawyer steeped in the politics, history, and culture of the golden age of Chicano activism. Twenty years ago, a gang attacked four Chicano student activists and shot down their leader, Rocky Ruiz. Now the survivors, Montez's former compatriots in the movement, are in danger. One is killed, another beaten, and a third driven into hiding. Enter Teresa Fuentes, a beautiful young lawyer determined to solve the mystery and just as determined to avoid becoming involved with Montez. To save his friends, Montez must reexamine the central event of their shared past-the murder of Rocky Ruiz. Just as difficult, he finds, may be to untangle his feelings for Teresa Fuentes.

Northwestern University Press

Luis Montez-Denver attorney and part-time detective-has been getting his career and his life together. So how did he end up in a ditch, his car twisted and smoking nearby, a gun-wielding giant in a cowboy hat coming toward him? The answer: his friend, Felix "Gato" Guerrero. Trouble has always followed the larger-than-life Felix the Cat. Now it has jumped all over him. His girlfriend is the wife of a ruthless local crime lord and in spite of bullets and hit men he won't give her up. His former father-in-law blames him for a family tragedy and is bent on revenge. Worst of all, Felix is determined to remain unaware of the dangers. It's up to Montez-and not for the first time-to step in and save him. As in his Edgar-nominated The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz, Manuel Ramos immerses readers not only in a thrilling mystery but also in the fascinating Chicano culture of the West. Fast-paced and richly textured, The Ballad of Gato Guerrero is an entertaining addition to the acclaimed Luis Montez mystery series.

The Ballad of Gato Guerrero (Latino Voices)

Winner, 2013 3rd Annual Latino Books Into Movies Award for Suspence/Mystery 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 Montez thinks until the woman gives him the manuscript of her novel and vanishes. Montez 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, Montez digs up a series of long-told lies and long-hidden ugly truths. He also finds himself confronting one of the great unsolved mysteries of recent Chicano history. What happened to Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, the iconic activist-writer presumed dead since 1974? More to the point, what made Rachel insist the legendary Brown Buffalo was alive-and that he was her real father?

Blues for the Buffalo (Latino Voices)

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The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz

The Ballad of Gato Guerrero

The Last Client of Luis Montez

Blues for the Buffalo: A Luis Montez Mystery

The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz

The Ballad of Gato Guerrero

Blues for the Buffalo

The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz

The Ballad of Gato Guerrero (Latino Voices)

Blues for the Buffalo (Latino Voices)