Blues for the Buffalo - Ramos, Manuel
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Chicano attorney Luis Montez has had a bad year and is relaxing on a Mexican beach with a beer in hand when Rachel Espinoza introduces herself and spreads her blanket--and very attractive bikini-clad body--next to him. They're both staying at friends' nearby houses and have heard of each other. He looks for her in the following days but doesn't see her again. Back in Denver, Montez is approached by a private detective, Conrad "Rad" Valdez, who's working a missing-persons case. Apparently, the lawyer was one of the last to see Rachel. The two Mexican Americans from different generations begin…mehr

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Chicano attorney Luis Montez has had a bad year and is relaxing on a Mexican beach with a beer in hand when Rachel Espinoza introduces herself and spreads her blanket--and very attractive bikini-clad body--next to him. They're both staying at friends' nearby houses and have heard of each other. He looks for her in the following days but doesn't see her again. Back in Denver, Montez is approached by a private detective, Conrad "Rad" Valdez, who's working a missing-persons case. Apparently, the lawyer was one of the last to see Rachel. The two Mexican Americans from different generations begin to share information, and Montez learns Rachel was adopted by the very wealthy Vargas family after her birth mother died in labor. Oddly, she believed that Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, a radical Chicano writer and activist, was her real father. She had made plans to meet him, even though he disappeared in 1974! As Montez works his own cases while continuing to unravel more about the missing woman, he learns that the young detective had a relationship with her. Could Rad have had something to do with her disappearance? And was the firebomb thrown into Denver's community bookshop--that killed a writer friend--connected to the case? Nothing is as it seems, including the Vargas family secrets that soon threaten Luis Montez and his own father! The fourth installment in Ramos' Luis Montez Mystery series of five novels follows the compelling search for Rachel Espinoza while introducing readers to another chapter in the Chicano civil rights movement.
Autorenporträt
MANUEL RAMOS is the recipient of several literary awards for his books, which include The Last Client of Luis Montez (Arte Público Press, 2024); The Ballad of Gato Guerrero (Arte Público Press, 2024); The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz (Arte Público Press, 2023), an Edgar Award finalist; Angels in the Wind: A Mile High Noir (Arte Público Press, 2021); The Golden Havana Night (Arte Público Press, 2018); My Bad (Arte Público Press, 2016); Desperado (Arte Público Press, 2013); and The Skull of Pancho Villa and Other Stories (Arte Público Press, 2015). Inducted into the Colorado Authors Hall of Fame in 2021, he lives and works in Denver, Colorado.