It is hard to believe this book is part of a series that I really liked. The story is boring the characters are stale and boring and what is it going to take to get a new bad guy because the play between Mr Staggs and Quinn Colson is becoming comical like that of Batman and the Joker.
This was so slow and boring I believe I am done with the series unless someone can give me a really good reason to read the next one. ( )

A solid 4 stars. I'd give it 5 stars for enjoyment, but I can't in good conscience rate the book in the same class as the great 5 star books, a personal rule I may rethink one day.

Anyhow, this is my 4th Quinn Colson book (and the 4th in the series - what a coincidence). I recommend reading them in order, as it is somewhat of a continuing story.

As others have pointed out, this is a lot like the TV series Justified, which I liked a lot. Entertaining, crazy bad guys, a smart/crazy/idiotic bad guy that seems to keep on top even as he seems to be sinking, etc.

This one was perhaps the best so far, to me. Shows what happens when vigilante justice is allowed to go on unpunished; the innocent may suffer, the less guilty suffer more than the guilty, and the wound it causes can fester for many years. The story is told in a combination of present and past stories, each explaining the other until they come together in the end. ( )

I'm the kind of person that read books way out of order. I started with book five, then I got to book three and then I read book four (this one). And that is all the audiobooks that I had so I ordered book one and two and now I'm just waiting for some time over to read them. On the plus side, listening to the audio version of this book was way easier than book five because now I know who is who. The worst problem listening to a couple of books in a series in a row is actually remembering what happened in each of the books.

Sheriff Quinn Colson is contacted by a woman that survived a brutal rape, but had to watch her best friend get killed. Now she wants Quinn to look into the case again because she knows that the wrong man was lynched for the crime. This is not easy said and done, there are deep buried secrets and many people are not happy about this reopening of a closed case.

As I stated in my review for book five is this series perfect if you have read all the Longmire books and looking for something similar. Quinn may not be the new Walt Longmire, but he's a very interesting character, being an ex-soldier that took over the sheriff job after his uncle. His deputy Lillie Virgil is just as tough and cool as Vic from the Longmire series. Together are they a fabulous team. As for the case, it will get very personal for Quinn when he learns that someone in his family may have been there when the man got lynched... ( )

Another well-written entry in the compelling Quinn Colson series. This tale of a small town in the deep South, where memories last long and the past still matters, is a gem. ( )

The For­saken by Ace Atkins is the 4th book in The Ranger series. The series fol­lows Quinn Col­son, a for­mer Army Ranger, who comes back to his home in Jeri­cho, Mis­sis­sippi to be near his fam­ily and gets elected Sheriff.

A white teenager is raped and killed in Tibbe­hah County, MI while her girl­friend man­ages to escape after being raped. A black man who won­ders into town is blamed for the crime and lynched.

More than three decades later, Sher­iff Coll­son and his deputy open up the file to inves­ti­gate what really hap­pened. The offi­cers are also fend­ing off a wrong­ful accu­sa­tion of mur­der (after being setup by the county’s unof­fi­cial boss) and help­ing the area recover from a dev­as­tat­ing tornado.

I have read all of the Quinn Col­son nov­els and enjoyed them all, so I was look­ing for­ward to read The For­saken by Ace Atkins espe­cially because of on the cliffhang­ers from the pre­vi­ous novel. Like the rest of the series, this novel is a stand­alone story and Mr. Atkins does a good job rein­tro­duc­ing the per­ti­nent parts of the char­ac­ters, how­ever I would rec­om­mend to read at least one of the nov­els in the series (if pos­si­ble, The Lost Ones) to get a bet­ter under­stand­ing of the char­ac­ters and have a bet­ter expe­ri­ence read­ing the novel.

I was never in the deep south of the United States, and I can only assume Mr. Atkins writes about what he knows, but the novel reads much like I would imag­ine a small-town-America in the Bible belt would be. The dia­logue is won­der­ful and it was nice to recon­nect with old, mem­o­rable characters.

The pre­vi­ous novel, set me up to believe that this novel would be a mys­tery / legal thriller with the Sher­iff and his assis­tant on trial. I thought this would have been a per­fect oppor­tu­nity for Mr. Atkins to stretch the series a bit and go in a dif­fer­ent direc­tion. What I got, though, was the same old same old for­mula with a mys­tery which only serves as a vehi­cle to enrich and the char­ac­ters and fur­ther their development.

I did enjoy the book very much and would cer­tainly rec­om­mend the whole series. Mr. Atkins keeps on writ­ing great char­ac­ters, great nar­ra­tive and excel­lent stories.

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