From "one of crime fiction's most interesting and passionate voices" (Laura Lippman) comes a new "noir crime classic" (Mystery Ink) about one of the most notorious towns in American history. Reviewing White Shadow, the Associated Press wrote, "This book packs the emotional wallop of Dennis Lehane's Mystic River. It is as gritty as James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential. And yet, the prose is as lyrical as James Lee Burke's Crusader's Cross. With White Shadow, Atkins has found his true voice." And with Phenix City, it is even truer. In...
From "one of crime fiction's most interesting and passionate voices" (Laura Lippman) comes a new "noir crime classic" (Mystery Ink) about on...
?Mesmerizing?a tour de force from one of the best crime writers at work today. Michael Connelly White Shadow is a ?stunning? (Lee Child) noir thriller based on real-life events. 1955: Tampa, Florida is a city pulsing with Sicilian and Cuban gangsters, cigar factories, sweet rum, and violence. The death of retired kingpin Charlie Wall? the White Shadow?has shocked the city, sending cops, reporters, and associates scrambling to find those responsible. As the trail winds through neighborhoods rich and poor, enmeshing the innocent and corrupt alike all the way down to the...
?Mesmerizing?a tour de force from one of the best crime writers at work today. Michael Connelly White Shadow is a ?stunning? (Lee ...
San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel-girls, jazz, bootleg hooch...and a dead actress named Virginia Rappe. The D.A. says it was Arbuckle who killed her- crushed her under his weight-and brings him up on manslaughter charges. William Randolph Hearst's newspapers stir up the public and demand a guilty verdict. In desperation, Arbuckle's defense team hires an operative from the famed Pinkerton detective agency to investigate and, they hope, discover the truth. The agent's name is...
San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel-girls,...
"Compelling... Atkins] captures the imminent end of the gangster heyday." -Booklist In July 1933, the gangster known as George "Machine Gun" Kelly staged the kidnapping-forransom of an Oklahoma oilman. He would live to regret it. Once again Ace Atkins transforms real-life events into riveting, thrilling fiction. Infamous is a passionate blend of historical novel and crime story-set in the first days of the modern FBI, featuring an unexpected hero, some of the most colorful supporting characters in recent crime fiction, and the unforgettable Kathryn Kelly (George...
"Compelling... Atkins] captures the imminent end of the gangster heyday." -Booklist In July 1933, the gangster known as Georg...
Fans of Justified and James Lee Burke will love Mississippi lawman Quinn Colson... The first Quinn Colson novel from the author of The Lost Ones, The Broken Places, and The Forsaken After years of war, Army Ranger Quinn Colson returns home to the rugged, rough hill country of northeast Mississippi to find his native Tibbehah County overrun with corruption, decay, meth runners, and violence. His uncle, the longtime county sheriff, is dead. A suicide, he's told, but others--like tomboy deputy Lillie Virgil--whisper murder. In the days that follow,...
Fans of Justified and James Lee Burke will love Mississippi lawman Quinn Colson... The first Quinn Colson novel from the author of
A Quinn Colson Novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Places Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a pair of paratrooper boots. Less than two days later, he was accused of rape and murder, hunted down by a frenzied posse, and lynched. Now evidence of his innocence has surfaced, and county sheriff Quinn Colson sets out to identify the stranger's remains and charge those responsible for the lynching. But as he starts to uncover old lies and secrets of...
A Quinn Colson Novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Places Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black m...