Don’t Let the Devil Ride

Hell is empty… and Addison McKellar’s husband is missing.

Addison McKellar isn’t clueless – she knows she and her husband Dean don’t have the perfect marriage – but she’s still shocked when he completely vanishes from her life. At first Addison is annoyed, but as days stretch into a week and she’s repeatedly stonewalled by Dean’s friends and associates, her frustration turns into genuine alarm. When even the police seem dismissive of her concerns, Addison turns to an old friend of her father, legendary Memphis PI Porter Hayes.

Porter and Addison begin to dig deeper into Dean’s affairs and quickly discover that he was never the hardworking business owner and family man he pretended to be. As they piece together the connections between a hook-handed mercenary, one of Elvis’s former leading ladies, and a man posing as an FBI agent, it becomes clear that Dean was deeply enmeshed in a high-stakes web of international intrigue, and Porter and Addison aren’t the only ones looking for him.

Dean angered some very dangerous people before he disappeared – people who have already killed to get what they want – and they won’t hesitate to come after his family to even the score.

Review Quotes:

\”Anyone who has read Ace Atkins knows he’s diabolically talented, but his latest goes beyond crackling wit and whip-smart storytelling. Don’t Let the Devil Ride combines meaty questions about the lies we build to protect ourselves–and what happens when those lies collapse–with a masterfully crafted plot and seductive Southern setting to create a novel that sings.\” — Don Winslow, #1 Internationally bestselling author

\”With his boisterous and beguiling new novel Don’t Let the Devil Ride, Ace Atkins confirms his status as the poet laureate of Southern hustlers and ne’er do wells. Full of wily humor and epic bad behavior, this is an ebullient, rollicking ride you don’t dare miss.\” — Megan Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Beware the Woman

\”Ace Atkins’s killing honesty sets a new standard for Southern crime fiction.\” — New York Times Book Review

\”Don’t Let the Devil Ride rumbles and rocks like the bottom beat in a Memphis blues tune played by a master. Ace Atkins has crafted an instant Southern noir classic that embodies the best aspects of the genre. Larger than life characters, wry humor, deep pathos and storytelling that embrace both the sacred and the profane.\”
— S.A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed

Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Imprint: Corsair/Constable & Robin
Publication date: 06/06/2024