“He is known as a crime writer, but that doesn’t quite capture what he does. His books are love stories, political dramas, mordant cautionary tales. Characters who are Latino, black and white, artists, professionals and laborers, are described in staccato chapters, like a catchy corrido. ‘It’s hard to find anything about Latinos in fiction about Denver,’ Ramos says. ‘I’m doing something that’s not done.'”