Greg Iles
Author
Language
English
Description
When Marshall McEwan left his hometown at age eighteen, he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away ultimately spurred him to become one of the most successful journalists in Washington D.C. But just as the political chaos in the nation's capital lifts him to new heights, Marshall is forced to return home in spite of his boyhood vow. His father is dying, his mother is struggling to keep the family newspaper from failing, and the town...
Author
Series
Penn Cage volume 5
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
A follow-up to Natchez Burning finds Southern lawyer Penn Cage desperately struggling to protect his father from false charges and corrupt officers by confronting the puppet master behind the Double Eagles terrorist group.
Author
Series
Penn Cage volume 6
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shattered by grief and dreaming of vengeance, Penn Cage sees his family and his world collapsing around him. The woman he loves is gone, his principles have been irrevocably compromised, and his father, once a paragon of the community that Penn leads as mayor, is about to be tried for the murder of a former lover. Most terrifying of all, Dr. Cage seems bent on self-destruction. Despite Penn's experience as a prosecutor in major murder trials, his...
Author
Series
Penn Cage volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author of Mississippi Blood and The Bone Tree keeps the secrets of the South alive in this "powerful...heartfelt...entirely gripping" (The Washington Post) novel of infatuation, murder, and sexual intrigue set in his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi.
When the nude body of a beautiful young female student is found near the Mississippi River, the entire community is shocked—but...
When the nude body of a beautiful young female student is found near the Mississippi River, the entire community is shocked—but...
5) Third degree
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale spanning a traumatic single day follows Laurel Shields, who awakens in her small-town home to discover her husband frantically preparing for what he claims is an IRS audit, but she soon realizes that he has discovered the truth about her affair with another man.
Author
Series
Penn Cage volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A deep river pit in Natchez, Mississippi, reputed to be the hiding spot for Jean Lafitte's hidden treasure and a dumping ground for numerous murder victims, becomes the site of a dangerous showdown for Penn Cage.
7) Southern man
Author
Series
Penn Cage volume 7
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone. But Penn's self-imposed exile comes to an abrupt end when a brawl at a Bienville music festival triggers a shooting-one that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie. Before the stunned populace can process the tragedy, an arsonist begins torching antebellum plantation homes in Bienville. When an unknown Black group claims the fires as acts of justice, panic ensues, driving...
8) Blood memory
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
Experiencing panic attacks and blackouts at murder scenes, forensics expert Cat Ferry is suspended from her task force and returns to her Mississippi hometown, where she discovers disturbing information about her father's murder.
10) 24 hours
Author
Series
Mississippi volume 2
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2001, ©2000
Language
English
Description
A kidnapping ransom-seeker whose devious technological abilities have helped him get away with the crime many previous times now targets Will and Karen Jennings' five-year-old daughter Abby, and the family has only twenty-four hours to thwart his plan.
Author
Series
Penn Cage volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Penn Cage must investigate when his father, a beloved family doctor and pillar of the community, is accused of murdering Violet Davis, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Trinity. The government's top-secret supercomputer is an intelligence beyond comprehension—and a nightmare beyond humanity's worst fears. At the heart of a maelstrom of limitless science and ruthless ambition, Dr. David Tennant, Project Trinity's ethicist, harbors a lethal secret: he knows who murdered a fellow scientist. Fleeing for his life alongside psychiatrist Rachel Weiss, the only hope for survival lies in revealing the shocking connection...
13) Sleep no more
Author
Series
Mississippi volume 4
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Enjoying a happy marriage while remembering an obsessive love affair years earlier with a woman who subsequently died, John Waters encounters a woman with a secret only his ex-girlfriend knows, and when she, too, is killed, Waters' life is enveloped by guilt and suspicion.
14) Spandau Phoenix
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
The Spandau diary, what was in it? Why did the secret intelligence agencies of every major power want it? Why was a brave and beautiful woman kidnapped to get it? Why did a chain of deception and violent death lash out across the globe, from survivors of the Nazi past to warriors in this new conflict about to explode? Why did the world's entire history of World War II have to be rewritten as the future hung over a nightmare abyss?
15) The quiet game
Author
Series
Penn Cage volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
Widower Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, where, finding that his father is being blackmailed, he reopens a notorious murder case that involves powerfully dangerous town forces, the FBI, and his own past.