by vjbooks | Apr 7, 2010 | We're Talking Books!
Brilliant criminal writer Ace Atkins is the April 2010 Favorite Author at VJ Books. Before turning to writing full time, Atkins worked as a crime reporter in the newsroom of The Tampa Tribune for several years. Here he earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination and Livingston...
by vjbooks | Feb 19, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Feb. 9) The 1921 rape/manslaughter trial of silent film star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle provides the gritty backdrop for Atkins’s outstanding crime novel, in which Dashiell Hammett, then a Pinkerton operative living in San Francisco,...
