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The Shameless by Ace Atkins

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To understand the world of Ace Atkins’ Tibbehah County, Mississippi, it would behoove you to be familiar with the work of Spencer Hall, college football writer extraordinaire. Every year, he would write a preview for his website, either edsbs.com or bannersociety.com that mixed football with folklore and social commentary. My personal favorite is 2017’s When The Levee Breaks, where he talked about the life of Huey Long and LSU as a parallel to the rise of Donald Trump. This passage is my particular favorite… There is […]

Them Good Ol’ Boys

The Sinners by Ace Atkins

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Do you have a series that’s so deeply enjoyable to you, reading it’s like slipping on a good, comfortable pair of jeans or drinking something tasty out of a favorite glass? That’s the Quinn Colson series for me. Eight books in and there’s not much differentiating one from another, this one included. But man, I really do enjoy these. Atkins creates great characters and he does such a fantastic job building this setting. Every story adds a layer to fictional Tibbehah County and I’m here […]

Honky Tonk

The Fallen by Ace Atkins

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I’ve accepted the fact that Ace Atkins is basically going to write the same book each time with the Quinn Colson series. Over-their-head gangsters with connections to Tibbehah. People swooping in from Quinn’s past. A bunch of random references to vaginas. Some dirty dealing Mississippi pols and crooks. And overall, mostly fun southern fried crime stories. I don’t know if I would have gorged on this series so hard had it not been for quarantine. But I’m glad I am. They’re enjoyable. Atkins knows how […]

The Faint of Heart

The Innocents by Ace Atkins

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Ace Atkins’ Quinn Colson series has helped me get through the pandemic. I’ve read books 2-6 since covid broke out across the country. They’re easy, gritty southern crime tales that don’t patronize the audience nor do they often give into the familiar tropes of post-western Tough Guy fic. I had this one on the shelf for weeks but I kept putting it off for a very obvious reason: it’s just tough to read about law enforcement right now. Don’t get me wrong, I read plenty […]

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The Redeemers by Ace Atkins

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I’ve more or less binged Ace Atkins’ Quinn Colson series while in quarantine. These books are perfect for the middlebrow crime lover: good dialogue, believable characters, textured but not complicated plot, and either a refreshing take or at least not a boring rehash of genre tropes. When suggested to me over the years, I assumed these would be Walking Tall ripoffs but they’re not. Atkins is a quality writer and he creates characters with real depth. Perhaps most crucially: he lets his male characters have complicated emotions. […]



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