The Redeemers [Paperback] Atkins, Ace

Quinn Colson is back in Tibbehah County, Mississippi, where the past never stays buried and justice is something you have to take into your own hands. When a former high school teammate is murdered, Quinn finds himself pulled into a tangled mess of corruption, old grudges, and a criminal enterprise that reaches from backwoods meth labs to the state capital. Ace Atkins writes the South like he was born to it — all heat, humidity, and moral rot — but with characters too stubborn to let it win. This is the fifth in the Quinn Colson series, though it stands alone just fine if you're jumping in fresh. If you like your crime fiction southern, gritty, and politically charged, with a protagonist who'd rather do the right thing than the easy thing, Quinn's your guy.