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Former quarterback turned Edgar-winning author Eli Cranor throws a glorious game winner in this series debut starring a rookie FBI agent who finds herself caught in the tangled web of a college football empireand the bloody greed that fuels it.
Former college quarterback Eli Cranor scores big with Mississippi Blue 42, a fun, provocative crime novel that takes aim at the heart of the American Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of An Honest Man
Special Agent Rae Johnson grew up on football fields alongside her father, a national-championship-winning coach. Which is exactly why, fresh out of Quantico, shes sent down to Compson, Mississippi, to investigate the illicit money flowing into a bustling football program in the heart of the Delta. But two days into the assignment things take a dire turn when UCMs star quarterback is flung from the roof of a college bar, lands on a bag of money, and dies.
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 universitys complex social hierarchy. With rumors of corruption rustling through the kudzu vines, Rae soon realizes theres more to the game than what shed learned as a child. And in order to win, shell have to put all her fathers lessons to the ultimate test.
In the vein of Carl Hiaasen and Sue Grafton, Mississippi Blue 42 takes a hard and often hilarious look at the big-money world of college athletics. In Cranors capable hands, football isnt just a game, its a front-row seat to the great American show.
Author: Eli Cranor
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Soho Crime
Published: 08/05/2025
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9781641296977
Language: English
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