Ace Atkins

Jan 6, 2025 | gadsdentimes.com | Ace Atkins

(NOTE: This column was originally published in June 2024. Don Noble will return Jan. 19 with a new column.)After a short spell as a police reporter in Tampa, Ace Atkins, a man of infinite energy and versatility, started his career alternating Nick Travers books, five in all, with four stand-alone novels, fictionalized true crime. He wrote of Machine Gun Kelly, the corruption in Phenix City, Alabama, organized crime in 1955 Tampa and Havana and my favorite, the Fatty Arbuckle case.

Jul 29, 2024 | audiofilemagazine.com | Ace Atkins

In this exhilarating audiobook, brought to life by Michael Boatman's exceptional narration, Addison McKellar learns that her husband, Dean, has vanished. She seeks the help of legendary PI Porter Hayes. Hayes soon uncovers far more about Addison's husband than even his wife has ever known, including the revelation that Dean's identity is fake.

Jul 23, 2024 | crimereads.com | Ace Atkins

More than two decades ago, the idea hit me. The kind of novel that I’d wanted to write, been trying to write for years, was equally influenced and informed by the early blues music I loved as it was by the hardboiled masters I idolized. I realized the direct connection between Hammett and Chandler and Son House and Robert Johnson. The spare poetry, sense of doom, and sudden violence crossed the page as surely as it came from my speakers.

Jul 3, 2024 | sacbee.com | Ace Atkins

Addison McKellar is living the dream - she has a tasteful Tudor mansion in one of the toniest neighborhoods in Memphis, a couple of sometimes sweet kids and a charming, socially connected husband, Dean, whose construction company keeps the money flowing in. But now Dean has disappeared, and the harder Addy looks for him, the more it seems like he was never there.

Jun 23, 2024 | redcarpetcrash.com | Ace Atkins |Katharine Schellman

The book is in stores on Tuesday, June 25th from Morrow. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3vDXU1eHell is empty…and Addison McKellar’s husband is missing. Addison McKellar isn’t clueless—she knows she and her husband Dean don’t have the perfect marriage—but she’s still shocked when he completely vanishes from her life.