If anatomy is destiny, as Sigmund Freud once postulated, what does a person's name portend? Take the case of Ace Atkins. That's a moniker made-to-order for crime fiction, with a rat-a-tat terseness ...

Homing in on 1985, dubbed by the New York Times “the year of the spy,” after dozens of American government moles working for everyone from the CIA to the U.S. Navy were arrested for espionage, Atkins’ ...

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Behind every good gangster is a good gangster's woman. Clyde Barrow had Bonnie Parker. John Dillinger had Evelyn "Billie" Frechette. And, as crime writer Ace Atkins recounts in his new novel "Infamous ...

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, ...

Alabama-based publisher 12-Gauge Comics is adapting bestselling crime novelist Ace Atkins’ four Nick Travers prose works into graphic novels. The house will release the first of the graphic novels in ...

Ace Atkins spent his 48th birthday on June 28 in Alabama, visiting his mother. Alabama is where he first gained national fame, gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated for Auburn University's football ...

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’s Spenser private-eye series as a teenager growing up in Auburn. Parker, in fact, is responsible for leading Atkins into a life of crime-writing. “He was somebody I always followed, and the kind of ...

There are just a few mystery and thriller authors who are consistently good. Most have a clunker occasionally. But Ace Atkins, Craig Johnson and Michael Connelly always impress me with every book they ...

Ace Atkins walks out of the Buford Pusser Museum with a big smile on his face and two large hands wrapped around a genuine "Walking Tall" souvenir stick. The author of the "The Ranger" and new ...