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Storms A Comin’

The Broken Places by Ace Atkins

April 25, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

For a long time, I was wary of starting Ace Atkins’ Quinn Colson series. I’m not from the south but my dad is and I used to vacation there a lot. I know how often southern folk are caricaturized. I also know how people will write off the south’s racist legacy in favor of being “complex” (looking at you Gregory Iles, although I’ve never made it past 20 pages of a Penn Cage book so maybe he gets better). I assumed Quinn Colson, ex-Army Ranger, […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Ace Atkins, Deep South, mississippi, mystery, Quinn Colson, The Broken Places

Jake's CBR12 Review No:74 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Ace Atkins, Deep South, mississippi, mystery, Quinn Colson, The Broken Places ·
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