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Thanks to Crimespree's Jon Jordan and Jeremy Lynch, I got to interview Ace Atkins two days after Putnam and Robert B. Parker's estate announced him as the choice to continue the Spenser series. Last month, Jon asked me to interview Ace about his fourth Spenser novel, Kickback . The interview will run in the July 2015 print issue of Crimespree, but it also posted to the Crimespree site . Join my Matrix public chatroom Fans of Robert B. Parker .

On sale now from 280 Steps : Meet the McGraws. They're not criminals. They're outlaws. They have made a living by driving anything and everything for the Stanleys, the criminal family who has been employing them for decades. It's ended with Tucker. He's gone straight, much to the disappointment of his father, Webb. When Webb vanishes after a job, and with him a truck load of drugs, the Stanleys want their drugs back or their money. With the help from his grandfather, Calvin-the original lead foot-Tucker is about to learn a whole lot about the family business in a crash course that might just get him killed.

On sale now from 280 Steps : The first book in an action-packed pulp thriller trilogy arriving back-to-back in 2015, about former mafia collector Deuce Walsh. Deuce Walsh is a former gangster trying to keep his past hidden in the middle-of-nowhere Midwest. Seven years ago, his colleagues—The Chianti Brothers—made a power play and left him for dead. He survived, but had to leave everything behind and start from scratch with a new identity. But when his brother-in-law Colm, a degenerate gambler and wannabe wiseguy, gets himself into trouble, Deuce is brought back into the life of crime and finds himself helping Colm pay off a debt to the very people who tried to have him killed in the first place. The second book in the series, Delving Deeper , is out July 28.