Tag Archives: corruption

Reviewing the New Novel by Ace Atkins, a Writer on a Roll

Posted on July 5, 2012 by

The Lost Ones, the second novel in Ace Atkins series featuring former U.S. Army Ranger Quinn Colson, finds him serving as the newly-elected sheriff of his native Tibbehah County, Mississipi. Given the rural county’s legacy of lawlessness and political corruption, … Continue reading →

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The True Story Behind White Bulger, Corrupt FBI Agents, and the Investigator Who Brought Them to Justice

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

As a journalist born and bred just south of Boston, I followed the Whitey Bulger saga closely and even had a hand in breaking a big story or two about the mobster and his corrupt allies in the Boston Bureau … Continue reading →

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Notorious: My Review of Buddy Cianci’s New Memoir

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

The last story I wrote for The Providence Journal before I left the paper was an investigation of massive mail-ballot fraud in one of Mayor Buddy Cianci’s reelection campaigns. Now Buddy (who has a brief walk-on in my crime novel, … Continue reading →

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Mulligan’s Rogue Island

Posted on October 27, 2010 by

Mulligan, an investigative reporter at a dying Providence, R.I., newspaper, is the hero of Rogue Island, my new crime novel. This is what the city looks like to him.

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