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Mississippi Blue 42
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Eli Cranor is that rare writer who can make you gasp, cry and cheer often in the same paragraph — S. A. COSBY Special Agent Rae Johnson grew up on football fields alongside her father, a national-championship-winning coach. Which is exactly why she was chosen to...
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A gripping thriller for a major new voice is crime fiction, this is the perfect read for fans of S. A. Cosby, James Lee Burke and Attica Locke.
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Eli Cranor is that rare writer who can make you gasp, cry and cheer often in the same paragraph — S. A. COSBY
Special Agent Rae Johnson grew up on football fields alongside her father, a national-championship-winning coach. Which is exactly why she was chosen to investigate the illicit money flowing into the University of Central Mississippi's football program. But her case takes a dire turn when UCM's star quarterback is flung off a college bar's roof and lands on a bag full of money.
Hoping to turn a routine fraud case into a career-defining bust, Rae ingratiates herself with the fans, coaches, players, and politicians who make up the university's complex social hierarchy. With rumours of corruption rustling through the kudzu vines, Rae soon realises there's more to the game than what she'd learned as a child. And in order to win, she'll have to put all her father's lessons to the ultimate test.
Mississippi Blue 42 is a thrilling blend of crime and suspense, twisting through the murky world of college football corruption.
Praise for Eli Cranor:
A gritty, authentic triumph, one howling to be turned into a film or TV series — FINANCIAL TIMESAtmospheric and tense thriller that has TV series written all over it — THE SUN
Southern noir at its finest, a cauldron of terrible choices and even more terrible outcomes — NEW YORK TIMES
Cranor's characters bristle with desperation and frustrated masculinity, a volatile cauldron of emotion that brings tension to every page — STEPH CHA
Not to be missed. — MEGAN ABBOTT
A major work from a bright, young talent — USA TODAY
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781035428335
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 January 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Headline Book Publishing
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 270g
Pages: 384
About the Author
Eli Cranor lives and writes from the banks of Lake Dardanelle, a reservoir of the Arkansas River nestled in the heart of True Grit country. His work has won The Greensboro Review's Robert Watson Literary Prize and been featured in Missouri Review, Oxford American, Ellery Queen, The Strand and others. Eli also pens a weekly column, "Where I'm Writing From" for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and his craft column, "Shop Talk," appears monthly at CrimeReads. His critically acclaimed debut novel, Don't Know Tough, won the Peter Lovesey First Crime Novel Contest.
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