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Publication Date:  April 21, 2015 Format:  Hardcover Genre:   Legal Thriller Publisher:  William Morrow Length:  814  pages Buy:    Paperback  |  Kindle Synopsis Former prosecutor Penn Cage and his fiancée, reporter and publisher Caitlin Masters, have barely escaped with their lives after being attacked by wealthy businessman Brody Royal and his Double Eagles, a KKK sect with ties to some of Mississippi’s most powerful men. But the real danger has only begun as FBI Special Agent John Kaiser warns Penn that Brody wasn’t the true leader of the Double Eagles. The puppeteer who actually controls the terrorist group is a man far more fearsome: the chief of the state police’s Criminal Investigations Bureau, Forrest Knox. ...

  Publication Date:  April 29, 2014 Format:  Audio Genre:   Legal Thriller Narrators:  David Ledoux Publisher:  Harper Audio Length:  35 hours 51 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis From #1  New York Times  bestselling author Greg Iles comes the first novel in his Natchez Burning trilogy—which also includes  The Bone Tree Mississippi Blood —an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing thriller featuring Southern lawyer and former prosecutor Penn Cage.  Raised in the southern splendor of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned all he knows of duty from his father, Dr. Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor has been accused of murdering the African American ...

Publication Date:  March24, 2020 Format:  paperback Genre:   African-American Fiction  Publisher:  Ecco Length:  304  pages Buy:    Paperback  |  Audiobook  Synopsis Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day—and she hasn't been back to the South since.  Thirty years later, Billie returns but her father's home is unnervingly secluded: her only neighbors are the McGees, the family whose history has been entangled with hers since the days of slavery. As Billie e...

Publication Date:  July 1, 2008 Format:  Audio Genre:   Suspense Thriller Narrators:  Dick Hill Publisher:  Brilliance Audio  Length:  17 hours 0 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Dr. Chris Shepard has never seen his new patient before. But the attractive young woman with the scarred face knows him all too well. An FBI agent working undercover, Alex Morse has come to Dr. Shepard's office in Natchez, Mississippi, to unmask a killer. A local divorce attorney has a cluster of clients whose spouses have all died under mysterious circumstances. Agent Morse's own brother-in-law was one of those clients, and now her beloved sister is dead. Then comes Morse's bombshell: Dr. Shepard's own beautiful wife consulted this lawyer...