Nationally-bestselling, Edgar Award-winning author Eli Cranor played quarterback at every level: peewee to professional. These days, he serves as Writer in Residence at Arkansas Tech, where he also lends his expertise to the university's football team, an experience he mined while drafting Mississippi Blue 42. For exclusive content and monthly updates, subscribe to Eli's newsletter by clicking HERE.
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“Eli Cranor has written a brilliant opera buffa for the Deep South, set in red zones and blues bars and Waffle Houses. Borrowing plot lines from Tommy Tuberville and Robert Johnson, pulling characters from William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren, his gonzo writing delivers big laughs and bigger questions about our beloved game day rites and rituals.”
— John T. Edge, host of SEC Network’s TrueSouth |
"If you haven’t read Eli Cranor yet, now’s the time.”
—Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author of The Note “Mississippi Blue 42 is an amazing achievement by a powerful voice in crime fiction.” —S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed |