June 4, 2013 Tibbedah County Sheriff Quinn Colson doesn’t much like his little sister’s new boyfriend, Jamey Dixon, a convicted killer mysteriously pardoned by the Mississippi governor. It’s of little comfort that he is now a self-redeemed preacher, and things become even more concerning when the preacher’s former prison buddies escape and come to town. Ace Atkins will read from and sign The Broken Places, his third Quinn Colson mystery, at 6 p.m. on June 5, 2013, at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis.

May 31, 2013 Raymond L. Atkins’s third novel and winner of the 2011 Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction, Camp Redemption, tells the story of Early Willingham, a mild-mannered mechanic with a fondness for Schlitz malt liquor, and his clairvoyant sister, Ivey. Filled with colorful characters and quaint locales, Camp Redemption is a gentle comic meditation on the surprising things that can happen when we reach out a hand to those in need. Raymond L. Atkins will discuss the novel at Burke’s Book Store in Memphis on June 6, 2013, at 5:30 p.m.