Ace Atkins

Born in 1970, Atkins is the son of NFL player Billy Atkins. Atkins lettered for the Auburn University football team in 1992 and 1993. He was featured on the Sports Illustrated cover commemorating the Tigers' perfect 11–0 season of 1993. The cover shows Atkins celebrating after sacking future Heisman Trophy winner Danny Wuerffel of the Florida Gators. Atkins wore number 99 for the Tigers.. He graduated from Auburn University in 1994. The story became the core of his critically acclaimed novel, White Shadow, which was commented on positively by noted authors and critics. In his next novels, Wicked City and ''Devil's Garden, Atkins continued this kind of story-telling, a style that was compared to that of Dennis Lehane and George Pelecanos. The Boston Globe'' wrote that while some people might have "viewed the move as unseemly, those people didn't know Robert B. Parker, a man who, when asked how his books would be viewed in 50 years, replied: 'Don't know, don't care.' He was proud of his work, but he mainly saw writing as a means of providing a comfortable life for his family." His 2016 Parker novel Slow Burn won a Scribe Award for Best Original Novel. ==Personal life==

In a 2023 interview for CrimeReads, Atkins said he's been living for the past twenty years on a historic farm outside Oxford, Mississippi with his family. ==Novels==

Nick Travers • Crossroad Blues (1998) • ''Leavin' Trunk Blues'' (2000) • Dark End of the Street (2002) • Dirty South (2004) Quinn Colson • The Ranger (2011) • The Lost Ones (2012) • The Broken Places (2013) • The Forsaken (2014) • The Redeemers (2015) • The Innocents (2016) • The Fallen (2017){{cite web|title=The Fallen (A Quinn Colson Novel)|url=http://www.aceatkins.com/books/the-fallen-a-quinn-colson-novel/ • The Sinners (2018) • The Shameless (2019) • The Revelators (2020) • The Heathens (2021) ===Robert B. Parker's Spenser=== • ''Robert B. Parker's Lullaby'' (2012) • ''Robert B. Parker's Wonderland'' (2013) • ''Robert B. Parker's Cheap Shot'' (2014) • ''Robert B. Parker's Kickback'' (2015) • ''Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn'' (2016) • ''Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies'' (2017) • ''Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic'' (2018) • ''Robert B. Parker's Angel Eyes'' (2019) • Robert B. Parker’s Someone To Watch Over Me (2020) • ''Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby'' (2022) Standalone Novels • White Shadow (2006) 400 pages • Wicked City (2008) 368 pages • ''Devil's Garden'' (2009) 368 pages • Infamous (2010) 416 pages ==See also==