The Broken Places

Broken places, broken people, and broken promises. The theme has been running through this series. Broken, realistic characters living and surviving in their broken world all the while striving for and maybe finding a small bit of redemption, a light in the darkness. The town of Jericho and the peop......more

I guess Ace Atkins gave his publishers some kind of Buy-One-Get-One-Free deal because he released two new books in one month this year. His generous nature is good news for fans because Wonderland showed again that he was the right writer to give us more Spenser while this one adds even more depth t......more

The Broken Places is the third installment in Ace Atkins' Quinn Colson series, and it's the best one yet, which is saying something given that the first two were really very good. Colson, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, has returned home to the small rural town of Jericho, Mississippi, and has b......more

A former convict has come back to Tibbeha County to start a church. Most people think he's a fraud, but of course, Quinn's sister falls in love with him. A couple of the people who think he's a fraud are his former confederates, out to get their money and their pound of flesh. Added to the usual corr......more

As usual, when it comes to me did I start off this series by reading (or listening in this case) not from the start. Instead, I started with book five, The Redeemers. I liked so much that I went back and listen to this book three and four and now I just wait for the right moment to reading book one......more