Author: Greg Iles
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publication Date: 2014
Edition: ebook (824 pages)
Categories:
- Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- Mystery
- Thriller
- Civil Rights
- Racism
Books in the Penn Cage Series
- The Quiet Game
- Turning Angel
- The Devil's Punchbowl
- Natchez Burning
- The Bone Tree
- Mississippi Blood (March 2017)
Natchez Burning by Greg IlesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Natchez Burning is the fourth book in the Penn Cage Series, and the first book in the Natchez trilogy. Pen Cage, the Mayor of Natchez, Mississippi, receives a phone call from the Natchez District Attorney advising him that his father, Tom Cage, is about to be charged with a murder of his former nurse. Penn has to use every legal skill he learned as a prosecutor and every life skill he possesses to uncover the truth and save his father from prison. In so doing, he has to fight the KKK and members of an offshoot group, and, eventually, it becomes a fight to save his own life and the lives of his fiance and his family.
This is one of the most enthralling books I have ever read. The detail and historical perspective of life in the south during the civil rights years of integration and even present day is painted with a realism the reader can see and touch. The electrifying atmosphere transcends the years. The reader is there. I was fully engaged, and couldn't wait to see what would happen next. The emotion of love and hate is revealed in such a way that I felt I was often inside the mind of the characters.
The sixth book in the Penn Cage Series, Mississippi Blood, will be published in March. I plan to go back and begin at the beginning of the Series with The Quiet Game. I am so glad I discovered Mr. Iles' books.
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