Ace Atkins

One of the country's fastest rising crime writers returns with a noir thriller about the real-life Phenix City, Alabama, nicknamed "the Wickedest City in America" in the 1950s. Against the stew of crime and corruption that overran the city, a band of citizens rose up to confront the evil. The resulting battle was "like a Randolph Scott western, played out not with horses and Winchesters, but with Chevys and .38s and switchblades."