New York, NY: Dutton (1999)

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When former prosecutor Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, he doesnt’ find the peace he desperately craves. He finds that his own father is being blackmailed by a corrupt ex-cop. And when Penn investigates, he uncovers a murderous secret — and the small town’s violent past. 

New York, NY: Scribner (2009)

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From “New York Times” bestselling author Greg Iles comes his most electrifying thriller yet. “The Devil’s Punchbowl” reveals a world of depravity, sex, violence, and the corruption of a Southern town.

As a prosecuting attorney in Houston, Penn Cage sent hardened killers to death row. But it is as mayor of his hometown — Natchez, Mississippi — that Penn will face his most dangerous threat. Urged by old friends to try to restore this fading jewel of the Old South, Penn has ridden into office on a tide of support for change. But in its quest for new jobs and fresh money, Natchez, like other Mississippi towns, has turned to casino gambling, and now five fantastical steamboats float on the river beside the old slave market at Natchez like props from “Gone With the Wind.”

But one boat isn’t like the others.

Rumor has it that the Magnolia Queen has found a way to pull the big players from Las Vegas to its Mississippi backwater. And with them — on sleek private jets that slip in and out of town like whispers in the night — come pro football players, rap stars, and international gamblers, all sharing an unquenchable taste for one thing: blood sport — and the dark vices that go with it. When a childhood friend of Penn’s who brings him evidence of these crimes is brutally murdered, the full weight of Penn’s failure to protect his city hits home. So begins his quest to find the men responsible. But it’s a hunt he begins alone, for the local authorities have been corrupted by the money and power of his hidden enemy. With his family’s lives at stake, Penn realizes his only allies in his one-man war are those bound to him by blood or honor: Caitlin Masters, the lover Penn found in “The Quiet Game” and lost in “Turning Angel” Danny McDavitt, the heroic helicopter pilot from “Third Degree” Tom Cage, Penn’s father and legendary local family physician Walt Garrity, a retired Texas Ranger who served with Penn’s father during the Korean War

Together they must defeat a sophisticated killer who has an almost preternatural ability to anticipate — and counter — their every move. Ultimately, victory will depend on a bold stroke that will leave one of Penn’s allies dead — and Natchez changed forever.

After appearing in two of Iles’s most popular novels, Penn Cage makes his triumphant return as a brilliant, honorable, and courageous hero. Rich with Southern atmosphere and marked by one jaw-dropping plot turn after another, “The Devil’s Punchbowl” confirms that Greg Iles is America’s master of suspense.

New York, NY: Penguin Putnam (2001)

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A mysterious series of paintings in a Hong Kong art museum, including one featuring a woman who bears a striking resemblance to her, draws photojournalist Jordan Glass into a painful search for the murderer of her twin sister, killed one year earlier, as she becomes embroiled in a deadly duel with the anonymous killer who knows all too much about her.

New York, NY: William Morrow (2014)

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Growing up in the rural Southern hamlet of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned everything he knows about honor and duty from his father, Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor and pillar of the community is accused of murdering Violet Turner, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s. A fighter who has always stood for justice, Penn is determined to save his father, even though Tom, stubbornly evoking doctor-patient privilege, refuses to speak up in his own defense.

The quest for answers sends Penn deep into the past–into the heart of a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the Double Eagles, a vicious KKK crew headed by one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the state. With the aid of a local friend and reporter privy to some of the oldest and deadliest secrets in Natchez, Penn follows a bloody trail that stretches back forty years, to one undeniable fact: no one–black or white, young or old, brave or not–is ever truly safe.

With everything on the line, including his own life, Penn must decide how far he will go to protect those he loves . . . and see justice done, once and for all.

Rich in Southern atmosphere and electrifying plot turns, Natchez Burning marks the brilliant return of a genuine American master of suspense. Tense and disturbing, it is the most explosive, exciting, sexy, and ambitious story Greg Iles has written yet.

New York, NY: Scribner (2005)

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Forensic expert Catherine “Cat” Ferry is a thirty-one year old woman at the peak of her professional career when she begins to have panic attacks and blackouts at murder scenes. Suspended from her current case, a string of puzzling murders in New Orleans, she returns to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to regroup. When two bloody footprints are revealed by a spill of her forensic materials on the floor of her childhood bedroom, the sight shocks Cat more than any corpse she has seen in her forensic career. Cat’s father was murdered when she was eight, but Cat always believed the murder took place in the garden. The bloody footprints suggest otherwise. Driven by this clue from her past, Cat begins a forensic reconstruction of that crime, even as developments by the New Orleans task force pull her back into the case she left behind. As she pieces together the horrifying childhood events she has been shielded from all her life, both she and the FBI realize the current murders in New Orleans are intimately tied to Cat’s family and her past. Finding a solution to those murders means more than stopping a relentless killer; it’s the only way to save her sanity and her life.

New York, NY: Scribner (2005)

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“New York Times” bestselling author Greg Iles brings the secrets of the South alive in this vibrant novel of infatuation, murder, and sexual intrigue set in his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi.