New Releases by Ace Atkins

Nick travers, blanc, a été élevé par Loretta et jojo, tenanciers noirs du mythique blues bar à la Nouvelle-Orléans. Il leur doit tout, et notamment sa passion pour le blues. Or Loretta reçoit des menaces à cause de son frère Clyde, grand chanteur de soul disparu quinze ans auparavant. Nick, parti à sa recherche, remonte sa piste à travers un vieux sud peuplé de séductrices et de truands, de caïds mafieux, de politicards et de forcenés fachos. Baignée de musique noire, son équipée nostalgique entre Memphis et le delta dépeint un monde qui, au fur et à mesure que les fast-foods remplacent les bars à blues, perd peu à peu son âme. Ace Atkins, ex-sportif et journaliste originaire de l''Alabama, grand amateur de Faulkner, a été finaliste du prix Pulitzer pour ses enquêtes criminelles dans le Tampa tribune. La mélodie mélancolique de blues bar charmera les fans de James Lee Burke et de Charles Willeford

An ex-football player, turned blues historian, has twenty-four hours to save the life of his friend.

Hired to track down a friend''s lost brother, Nick Travers finds himself in the casinos of Tucina, where he meets up with the local mafia, a zealous gubernatorial candidate with shady connections, and an Elvis-obsessed killer.

Nick Travers becomes involved in the forty-year-old murder of a blues record producer, a crime for which the victim''s potentially innocent lover, Ruby Walker, has spent forty years in prison.

"... Ahmad has created a novel that looks at race and culture and the changing face of America. It''s a story that''s easy to devour but hard to forget... " - Richmond Times-DispatchRanjit Singh, a former Indian Army Captain trying to escape a shameful past, lives with his family among the migrant workers of Martha''s Vineyard, working as a caretaker of the vacation homes of the rich and powerful. Needing a place to stay, Ranjit moves his family into an empty Senator''s home. Happily, but illegally ensconced in the house, he tries to forget his brief affair with Anna, the wife of an African-American senator, and focus on providing for his family. But one night, their idyll is shattered when mysterious armed men break into the house, looking for an antique porcelain doll. Forced to flee, Ranjit is pursued and hunted by unknown forces, and becomes drawn into the Senator''s shadowy world. To save his family and solve the mystery of the doll, he must join forces with Anna, who has her own dark secrets. As the past and present collide, Ranjit must finally confront the hidden event that destroyed his Army career and forced him to leave India.Tightly plotted, action-packed, smart and surprisingly moving, The Caretaker takes us from the desperate world of migrant workers to the elite African-American community of Martha''s Vineyard, and a secret high-altitude war between India and Pakistan.