![]() I’ve written those kinds of thing before with my historical novels, true crime novels. I would have loved to set these books in the ‘70s, in gritty old Boston. The only thing I was directed to do by estate, that they felt very sure about, was that the stories should remain contemporary. ![]() Writing the Spenser books, you not only inherited his character but a whole supporting cast of very well-defined characters and a very distinctive setting. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.īye Bye Baby is the 50th Spenser novel and the 10th written by you, right? It’s set in Memphis, it’s very Memphis centric, a celebration of the good, the bad and the ugly that is Memphis.” “I’m working on a novel now very much in line with some of the historic true crime stories I’ve written in the past. “I haven’t started writing the new Quinn Colson, but it will be either in the future or something from Quinn’s past.” I don’t necessarily want to see that book. “I’m not going to write corona times in Mississippi. “How do I address the pandemic? He’s the sheriff, his wife is a nurse at a community hospital. He’ll be continuing the Colson series, although he’s still thinking about how to write the next one. “But whatever I do, those characters are never mine.” I loved writing about Spenser,” Atkins said in a Zoom interview from his home in Oxford, Miss. Related: Read a review of Ace Atkins' "The Revelators." ![]()
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