Ace Atkins

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1998
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Nick Travers Mystery

1 - Crossroad Blues (Oct-1998)
2 - Leavin' Trunk Blues (Jul-2000)
3 - Dark End of the Street (Oct-2002)
4 - Dirty South (Mar-2004)

A Quinn Colson Novel

1 - The Ranger (Jun-2011)
2 - The Lost Ones (Jun-2012)
3 - The Broken Places (Jun-2013)
4 - The Forsaken (Jul-2014)
5 - The Redeemers (Jul-2015)
6 - The Innocents (Jul-2016)
7 - The Fallen (Jul-2017)
8 - The Sinners (Jul-2018)
9 - The Shameless (Jul-2019)
10 - The Revelators (Jul-2020)
11 - The Heathens (Jul-2021)

Multi-Author Series List

Robert B. Parker's Spenser

1 - Robert B. Parker's Lullaby (May-2012)
2 - Robert B. Parker's Wonderland // Spenser Confidential (May-2013)
3 - Robert B. Parker's Cheap Shot (May-2014)
4 - Robert B. Parker's Kickback (May-2015)
5 - Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn (May-2016)
6 - Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies (May-2017)
7 - Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic (May-2018)
8 - Robert B. Parker's Angel Eyes (Nov-2019)
9 - Robert B. Parker's Someone to Watch Over Me (Jan-2021)
10 - Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby (Jan-2022)

Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • Crossroad Blues

    A Nick Travers Mystery - 1

    With overwhelming acclaim from reviewers, readers, and peers alike, first-time novelist Ace Atkins hits a high note with Nick Travers, mystery fiction's first blues hero. An ex-football pro, Nick's days are now as languid as the Big Easy itself--he t...

  • Leavin' Trunk Blues

    A Nick Travers Mystery - 2

    It's been a year since Nick Traver's search for the lost recording of blues phantom Robert Johnson in Crossroad Blues. He has grown comfortable playing his harp at JoJo's in the French Quarter and teaching blues history at Tulane. A difficult case wa...

  • Dark End of the Street

    A Nick Travers Mystery - 3

    Former pro football player-turned-college professor Nick Travers came of age in a smoky New Orleans bar -- and he owes a monumental debt to its owners, Jo Jo and Loretta, who took him under their wings. Now Loretta wants Nick to locate her missing...

  • Dirty South

    A Nick Travers Mystery - 4

    What would you do if you only had twenty four hours to save the life of a friend? Searching for lost souls and solving problems was never Nick Travers's intention when he started doing favors for his buddies. A former football player who sometimes...

  • White Shadow

    Tampa, Florida, 1955: a city pulsing with Sicilian and Cuban gangsters, cigar factories, sweet rum, and violence. The bludgeoning death of retired kingpin Charlie Wall shocks the city and sends cops and reporters and associates scrambling to discover...

  • Wicked City

    In 1955, Look magazine called Phenix City, Alabama, "The Wickedest City in America," but even that may have been an understatement. It was a stew of organized crime and corruption, run by a machine that dealt with complaints forcefully and with dispa...

  • Devil's Garden

    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 ...

  • Infamous

    In July 1933, the gangster known as George Machine Gun Kelly staged the kidnapping-for-ransom of an Oklahoma oil-man. He would live to regret it. Kelly was never the sharpest knife in the drawer, and what started clean soon became messy, as two of hi...

  • The Ranger

    A Quinn Colson Novel - 1

    Ace Atkins returns with an extraordinary new series. Northeast Mississippi, hill country, rugged and notorious for outlaws since the Civil War, where killings are as commonplace as in the Old West. To Quinn Colson, it's home-but not the home he left ...



  • Robert B. Parker's Lullaby

    Robert B. Parker's Spenser - 1

    When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother's murder, he's not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie is gruff, street-smart, and wise beyond her years, left ...

  • The Lost Ones

    A Quinn Colson Novel - 2

    Fresh from ten years as a U.S. Army Ranger, Quinn Colson finds his hands full as the newly elected sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi. An old buddy running a local gun shop may be in over his head when stolen army rifles start showing up in the...

  • Last Fair Deal Gone Down: A Nick Travers Graphic Novel

    From New York Times-bestselling author, Ace Atkins, comes the graphic novel adaptation of his Edgar Award-nominated story featuring New Orleans blues historian/detective Nick Travers. It's Christmas in New Orleans. For many, it's the best season of t...

  • Robert B. Parker's Wonderland // Spenser Confidential

    Robert B. Parker's Spenser - 2

    Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process al...

  • The Broken Places

    A Quinn Colson Novel - 3

    A year after becoming sheriff, Quinn Colson is faced with the release of an infamous murderer from prison. Jamey Dixon comes back to Jericho preaching redemption, and some believe him; but for the victim’s family, the only thought is revenge. An...

  • Robert B. Parker's Cheap Shot

    Robert B. Parker's Spenser - 3

    The iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser returns in an outstanding new addition to the New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. Kinjo Heywood is one of the New England Patriots' marquee players--a hard-nosed linebacker who's...

  • The Forsaken

    A Quinn Colson Novel - 4

    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 self-appointed poss...

  • Robert B. Parker's Kickback

    Robert B. Parker's Spenser - 4

    P.I. Spenser, knight-errant of the Back Bay, returns in this stellar addition to the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility...

  • The Redeemers

    A Quinn Colson Novel - 5

    He is only in his early thirties, but now Quinn Colson is jobless -- voted out of office as sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, thanks to the machinations of county kingpin Johnny Stagg. He has offers, in bigger and better places, but before he ...

  • Nick Travers, Volume 1: Last Fair Deal Gone Down

    From New York Times Bestselling author, Ace Atkins, comes the graphic novel adaptation of his Edgar Award-nominated short story featuring New Orleans blues historian/detective Nick Travers.

    It’s Christmas in New Orleans. For many, it’s t...



  • Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn

    Robert B. Parker's Spenser - 5

    Boston PI Spenser faces a hot case and a personal crisis in the latest adventure in the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. The fire at a boarded-up Catholic church raged hot and fast, lighting up Boston’s South End...

  • The Innocents

    A Quinn Colson Novel - 6

    From New York Times-bestselling Southern crime master Ace Atkins comes a gritty, darkly comic tale of greed, violence, and unexpected redemption. Quinn Colson didn’t owe his home town of Jericho, Mississippi, a damn thing. After serving for mor...

  • Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies

    Robert B. Parker's Spenser - 6

    Boston PI Spenser and right hand Hawk follow a con man’s trail of smoke and mirrors in this thrilling entry in Robert B. Parker’s long-running series. Connie Kelly thought she’d found her perfect man on an online dating site. She fell so ha...

  • The Fallen

    A Quinn Colson Novel - 7

    From New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins comes a rollicking crime novel of brazen thieves, good ole boy politicians, truck stop women -- and one decent man crazy enough to fight them all... The bank robbers wreaking havoc across the Sout...

  • Crossroad Blues: A Nick Travers Graphic Novel

    After a New Orleans college professor goes missing while searching for the rumored lost recordings of bluesman Robert Johnson -- who, as legend has it, sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads -- Nick Travers is sent to find him. Clues ...

  • Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic

    Robert B. Parker's Spenser - 7

    Iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene to investigate a decades-long unsolved crime of dangerous proportions. The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after the priceless paintings disappe...

  • The Sinners

    A Quinn Colson Novel - 8

    In the new novel from New York Times-bestselling crime master Ace Atkins, violence comes in many forms...and this time it may be more than Quinn Colson can handle. The Pritchards had never been worth a damn--an evil, greedy family who made their l...

  • The Shameless

    A Quinn Colson Novel - 9

    Buried secrets, dirty lies, and unbridled greed and ambition raise the stakes down South in the lauded crime series from New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins. Twenty years ago, Brandon Taylor was thought to be just another teen boy who end...

  • Robert B. Parker's Angel Eyes

    Robert B. Parker's Spenser - 8

    In the latest thriller featuring the legendary Boston PI, Spenser heads to the City of Angels to meet old friends and new enemies in a baffling missing person case that might shake Tinseltown to its core. Gabby Leggett left her Boston family with ...

  • The Revelators

    A Quinn Colson Novel - 10

    In this gripping new crime novel from the New York Times-bestselling author, Quinn Colson is about to find out whether his quest for justice can coexist with his loyalty to the law... Shot up and left for dead, Sheriff Quinn Colson has revenge on ...



  • Robert B. Parker's Someone to Watch Over Me

    Robert B. Parker's Spenser - 9

    In this next thriller in the New York Times bestselling Parker series, Spenser and his new apprentice trace the murder of a young woman to an international crime ring that has been operating with impunity because of the powerful and highly connected ...

  • The Heathens

    A Quinn Colson Novel - 11

    Sheriff Quinn Colson and his former deputy Lillie Virgil find themselves on opposite sides of a case for the first time after a woman is found dead and three delinquent teens go on the run.Before he was an Army Ranger who came home to become Tibbehah...

  • Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby

    Robert B. Parker's Spenser - 10

    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. T...

  • Don't Let the Devil Ride

    “An instant Southern noir classic” "S.A. Cosby S.A. Cosby meets Don Winslow in the breakout thriller from New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins. A Memphis woman hires a PI to find her missing husband, only to discover that he is inv...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ace Atkins has published 33 books.

The next book by Ace Atkins, Don't Let the Devil Ride, will be published in July 2024.

The first book by Ace Atkins, Crossroad Blues, was published in October 1998.

Yes. Ace Atkins has 2 series.
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