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Victoria Allman
Sep 13, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Crossroad Blues is the story of Nick Travers, an ex-New Orleans Saints player turned blues historian and his search for the lost recordings of Robert Johnson. This fast-paced mystery is a throwback to another era; not only 1938 and the murder of Robert Johnson after he sold his soul to the devil to be able to play the blues, but to an era of hard-boiled mysteries and dialogue that cracks like a whip.

Ace Atkins has captured a real sense of place with Crossroad Blues. It is set in both New Orlean
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Oct 09, 2007 rated it it was ok
Agatha Donkar Lund
Nov 03, 2014 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fiction, mystery, 2014
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May 12, 2019 marked it as to-read
Shelves: new-orleans-la