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Atkins, Ace, 1970-

The heathens / Ace Atkins. - London : Corsair, 2021. - 400 pages ; 24 cm. - Quinn Colson novels 11 . - Quinn Colson novels ; 11 . - Atkins, Ace. Quinn Colson novel ; 11. .

A Quinn Colson thriller -- On cover.

Sheriff Quinn Colson and his former deputy Lillie Virgil find themselves on opposite sides of a case for the first time after a woman is found dead and three delinquent teens go on the run. Before he was an Army Ranger who came home to become Tibbehah County Sheriff and take down a corrupt system, Quinn Colson was a kid who got into trouble - a lot of it. So when juvenile delinquent TJ Byrd insists that she doesn't know who killed her mother - an unreliable addict who has disappeared - Quinn's inclined to believe her. But no one else does - not the town, not the sheriff in a neighbouring county, not her mother's older boyfriend and certainly not Quinn's friend and former deputy, US Marshal Lillie Virgil. The Byrd family has always been trouble, and 16-year-old TJ is known for petty theft, fighting and general hellraising. She's also no fool, and when she senses she's about to take the fall for her mother's murder, TJ, her boyfriend, her best friend and her nine-year-old brother go on the run. As Lillie Virgil tracks the kids across a trail of burglaries, stolen cars and even a kidnapping, intent on bringing TJ to justice, Quinn sets out to find the truth back in Tibbehah. Someone has gone to a lot of violent trouble to make TJ and her friends the logical target of the investigation. It's easy, and who cares about a bunch of lawless kids? As the bloody evidence against TJ piles up, Quinn knows someone truly evil is at work here - and that puts TJ and her friends in more danger than they can imagine.

ISBN: 9781472156709 1472156706

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sheriffs--Fiction.
Fugitives from justice--Fiction.
Juvenile delinquents--Fiction.
Children of drug addicts--Fiction.
Murder--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Mississippi--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Detective and mystery fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction).

Dewey Class. No.: 813.6