Leavin' Trunk Blues

Nick Travers, Book 2

In the 1950s, Ruby Walker boarded the Illinois Central from Mississippi to the Promised Land—Chicago. She became one of the greatest blues singers the city has ever known, only to lose everything when she was convicted of murdering her lover and producer, Billy Lyons, in 1959. She's been locked in a prison cell ever since.

Now, a flickering hope emerges for Walker in the form of letters from a Tulane University blues historian named Nick Travers. She agrees to an interview only in exchange for him checking out what she calls the truth behind Lyons's last hours.

Travers soon learns there are those who still want the details of Lyons's death to remain hidden in the rubble of the blighted neighborhoods.

©2000 Ace Atkins (P)2024 Recorded Books

Finally a cure for sleep disorders!

I liked the first Nick Travers book, full of interesting characters and quick paced, but Nick's second is a bore, velcro-soddened glacial page-gluer. The blues are a wonderful setting for historian Travers but the author makes you do all the work and there is no reward. Whew! I'm begging for a new Quinn Colson! Please... this one is as dreary as they get.