Robert B. Parker’s Someone to Watch Over Me (Spenser)
Ten years ago, Spenser helped a teenage girl named Mattie Sullivan find her mother’s killer and take down an infamous Southie crime boss. Now Mattie–a college student with a side job working for the tough but tender private eye–dreams of being an investigator herself. Her first big case involves a fifteen-year-old girl assaulted by a […]
Robert B. Parker’s Bye Bye Baby (Spenser)
Boston PI Spenser takes on a new case in this installment in Robert B. Parker’s iconic New York Times bestselling series. Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressive agenda. Tough, outspoken, and driven, the young congresswoman has ignited a new conversation in Boston about race, poverty, […]
Dirty South
Ace Atkins returns with Nick Travers to the back streets of New Orleans for his best and most ambitious novel yet. When music mogul Teddy Paris, a former teammate from the New Orleans Saints, visits Nick Travers and asks him to help find $700,000 taken from a rap prodigy, Nick can’t turn down his friend. […]
Crossroad Blues 25th Anniversary Edition
A modern, Southern re-invention of The Maltese Falcon, Crossroad Blues won noir fans with its nod to the masters and thrilled readers with a wild ride along Highway 61. It’s here that we first meet Nick Travers, an ex-New Orleans Saint turned Tulane University blues historian. Nick searches for the lost recordings of 1930s bluesman […]
Leavin’ Trunk Blues
Christmas Eve on the South Side of Chicago: a grey coldness envelops the crumbling housing projects and tattered neighbourhoods. Seventy miles away – locked in a scarred prison cell – waits Ruby Walker, a woman who in every way is the South Side. More than forty years ago, she – like several million blacks during […]
Dark End of The Street
The plan is simple. All Nick Travers, a former professional football player turned professor, has to do is drive up Highway 61 from New Orleans to Memphis and track down the lost brother of one of his best friends. But as Travers knows, these simple jobs seldom turn out smoothly. His friend’s brother is Clyde […]
Last Fair Deal Gone Down (Short Story)
This Edgar Award-nominated short story featuring New Orleans music historian/detective Nick Travers was written nearly 15 years ago — and then forgotten by author Ace Atkins. The story was rescued from an old floppy disc and first published in 2008, in a special, 10th anniversary edition of Crossroad Blues. To Atkins’ surprise, that edition earned […]
Infamous
From “one of the best crime writers at work today” (Michael Connelly) comes a fast, funny, violent new noir crime classic—a Coen Brothers movie come to life. “Devil’s Garden is a remarkable book that succeeds on every level.” (Associated Press) He has been compared to Lehane, Ellroy, and Pelecanos, but Ace Atkins’ rich, raucous, passionate […]
Devil’s Garden
From the critically acclaimed, award-nominated author comes a new noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history. Critics called Ace Atkins’s Wicked City “gripping, superb” (Library Journal), “stunning” (The Tampa Tribune), “terrific” (Associated Press), “riveting” (Kirkus Reviews), “wicked good” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram), and “Atkins’ best novel” (The Washington Post). But […]
Wicked City
When crime-fighting attorney Albert Patterson is gunned down in a Phenix City alley in the spring of 1954, the entire town seems to pause just for a moment—and when it starts up again, there is something different about it. A small group of men meet and decide that they have had enough, but what that […]