AJC columnist turned novelist to sign books at Manuel's

So many of Atlanta's key moments involve traffic - the 2-inch "blizzard" of 2014 that stuck thousands of drivers on the roads overnight, the political debates over the Outer Perimeter, Northern Arc and T-SPLOST (all unsuccessful; we must love sitting still).

As a journalist who covered traffic for years as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's "Lane Ranger" columnist, Joey Ledford headed for familiar ground for his first novel, "Speed Trap."