Hotlanta’ Crime Novel Leads Harbor House Fall Fiction Lineup
Atlanta Blues, a new novel by Robert Lamb, leads publisher's fall lineup of fiction.
AUGUSTA, GA (PRWEB) September 23, 2004 -- Atlanta Blues, a new novel by
Robert Lamb, who teaches writing at the University of South Carolina, will be
released on Sept. 25.
The novel is about the search for a missing
college girl by a reporter and two cops. The search leads through the underbelly
of urban Atlanta to murder and heartbreak.
In writing the story, Lamb
said he drew upon his experiences as a reporter for The Atlanta Constitution in
the late 1970s and early ‘80s. His first novel, Striking Out, a coming-of-age
story set in Georgia and published in 1991, was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway
Award and is still in print.
Set in 1981, Atlanta Blues depicts life in
Atlanta’s gay communities and along The Strip, a stretch of Peachtree Street in
midtown Atlanta that became a virtual red-light district after the hippies moved
out and prostitutes from far and wide moved in.
Copy on the dust jacket
of Atlanta Blues says: “Crawling with pimps and prostitutes of both sexes, The
Strip is no place for the innocent and naive. But that is where the trail leads
when reporter Ben Blake, yielding to the tears of a disconsolate mother, sets
out to find the woman’s daughter. The search turns desperate when Blake learns
that he must find the girl before a killer can get to her first to shut her up.”
During the search, Blake, in the beginning a strictly-by-the-book
reporter, learns what the two cops, cops anywhere and everywhere, already know:
Justice and jurisprudence are two very different things, and the former is a lot
more satisfying than the latter. In fact, some people are willing to kill to get
it. And some are willing to let them.
Atlanta Blues has been submitted
for an Edgar Award, sometimes called "the Oscar of mystery novels."
A
native of Aiken, Lamb grew up in Augusta and is a graduate of the University of
Georgia. He now lives in Columbia, S.C.
An excerpt from Atlanta Blues is
on his Web site: www.RobertLamb.biz
Harbor House publishes fine fiction
and non-fiction books. It was recently named in Publishers Weekly as one of the
top 15 small presses in the country.
*Atlanta Blues
By *Robert Lamb
Fiction | Harbor House
Hardcover |
September 2004
$ 24.95 | ISBN 1891799029
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