RPL Author Series: Eli Cranor

Eli Cranor

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nationally bestselling, Edgar Award-winning author Eli Cranor played quarterback at every level, from pee-wee to professional. These days, he serves as Writer in Residence at Arkansas Tech University. Eli's previous books include Don't Know Tough, Ozark Dogs, and Broiler, which have made numerous "best of the year" lists, including the New York Times, USA Today, Amazon Editors, and others. His work has been nominated for nearly every major award in the crime fiction genre, and most recently, the prestigious Mark Twain Voice in American Literature Award. Eli's column, "Where I'm Writing From," appears weekly in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. 

His previous works include Don’t Know Tough, Ozark Dogs, and Broiler. For exclusive content and monthly updates, subscribe to Eli’s newsletter by visiting elicranor.com.

About the book

Corruption! Scandal! Murder! All before halftime! 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 empire—and the bloody greed that fuels it.

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, she’s 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 the university’s 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 university’s complex social hierarchy. With rumors of corruption rustling through the kudzu vines, Rae soon realizes there’s more to the game than what she’d learned as a child. And to win, she’ll have to put all her father’s 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 Cranor’s capable hands, football isn’t just a game—it’s a front-row seat to the great American show.

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