{"id":20273,"date":"2018-04-26T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20273"},"modified":"2021-03-23T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T20:30:05","slug":"ace-atkins-talks-crossroad-blues-and-a-lot-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20273","title":{"rendered":"Ace Atkins Talks Crossroad Blues and a Lot More!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ace Atkins<\/a> is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated novelist who has written 23 novels.\u00a0 Perhaps best known for being selected to carry on Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series, Atkins has series characters of his own (Nick Travers and Quinn Colson).\u00a0 If you dig his Spenser yarns, then you ought to give Travers and Colson a go.<\/p>\n

Crossroad Blues<\/a> is Atkins first Nick Travers novel.<\/p>\n

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The disappearance of a college professor investigating rumors of previously unknown recordings by renowned blues musician Robert Johnson, murdered more than fifty years earlier, leads football player-turned-blues historian Nick Travers along a dangerous trail as he seeks to unravel the dark truths behind an old mystery.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Crossroad Blues has been adapted into a graphic novel<\/a> by Atkins along with artist Marco Finnegan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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