Greg Iles. Morrow, $27.99 (800p) ISBN 978-0-06-231107-8
Much more than a thriller, Iles’s deftly plotted fourth Penn Cage novel (after 2008’s The Devil’s Punchbowl) doesn’t flag for a moment, despite its length. In 2005, the ghosts of the past come back to haunt Cage—now the mayor of Natchez, Miss.—with...
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Greg Iles, Author . Putnam $19.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-399-14735-7
Iles continues to amaze with his incredible range, this time around crafting a complex serial killer novel with the intimacy of a smalltown cozy and the punch of a techno-thriller. As different from Spandau Phoenix
and 24 Hours
as possible, it...
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Greg Iles, Author Signet Book $7.99 (704p) ISBN 978-0-451-17980-7
A neo-Nazi/South African cartel plots to destroy Israel. BOMC selection in cloth. (Apr.)
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Greg Iles, Author Signet Book $9.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-451-18519-8
Iles's WWII thriller portrays a commando raid on a Nazi concentration camp that is developing poison gases to be used against the Allied forces. (Nov.)
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Greg Iles, Author Dutton Books $24.95 (576p) ISBN 978-0-525-93792-0
Yet another serial killer stalks the Internet, this one courtesy of the talented Iles (Black Cross; Spandau Phoenix). When futures trader Harper Cole, who moonlights as the systems operator of an erotic online services called EROS, contacts the New...
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Greg Iles, Author Dutton Books $24.95 (433p) ISBN 978-0-525-93793-7
Although it takes place in Natchez, Miss., and is flavored with the violence and seamy undertones of a Southern Gothic, this fourth thriller by Iles (Spandau Phoenix) owes just as much to a familiar parallel universe where wealthy male lawyers...
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Greg Iles, Author Putnam Publishing Group $24.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-399-14624-4
HAs close to family fare as a kidnapper-rapist-extortionist thriller can get, Iles's (The Quiet Game) latest brilliantly plotted tale walks the razor's edge between cinematic excess and bone-chilling suspense. Joe Hickey is a Southern redneck with...
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Greg Iles, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-525-93829-3
Henceforth, any recommended reading list of thrillers about commando raids behind enemy lines will have to include this second novel by Iles (Spandau Phoenix), who has come up with an action-packed yet thoughtful yarn about a mission to stop the...
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Greg Iles, Author Dutton Books $22 (544p) ISBN 978-0-525-93604-6
Stock characters and melodramatic plotting mar this first novel, which posits a Rudolf Hess impostor imprisoned in Spandau while the real Nazi remains free, working from a secret South African stronghold to keep Hitler's legacy alive. In 1987, soon...
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Greg Iles. Morrow, $27.99 (816p) ISBN 978-0-06-231111-5
Iles’s richly plotted fifth Penn Cage novel, the middle book of a trilogy, picks up immediately after the previous entry, 2014’s Natchez Burning. Penn’s physician father, Tom, is a fugitive suspected of murder. Meanwhile, an unsolved civil rights...
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Greg Iles. Morrow, $28.99 (704p) ISBN 978-0-06-231115-3
Both unwieldy and tightly controlled, bestseller Iles’s terrific conclusion to his Natchez Burning trilogy (after 2015’s The Bone Tree) is a sweeping story that remains intimate. The Double Eagles, a savage KKK splinter group, have declared a...
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Greg Iles. Morrow, $28.99 (752p) ISBN 978-0-06-282461-5
Marshall McEwan, the star of this compulsively readable thriller from bestseller Iles (Mississippi Blood), returns to his hometown of Bienville, Miss., for two good reasons: his father’s getting old and rickety, and the woman he loves still lives...
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Greg Iles. Morrow, $36 (976p) ISBN 978-0-06-282469-1
A contentious 2024 presidential election anchors the epic latest entry in Iles’s Penn Cage series (after Mississippi Blood). Former attorney Penn—now the mayor of Natchez, Miss.—is tending to his dying mother even as he fights his own battle with...
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Greg Iles, Author . Putnam $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-14881-1
Iles has written some solid, beautifully constructed thrillers (24 Hours; Dead Sleep), so when his latest seems for page after page to have no logical explanation for its central mystery, we hold on, bide our time and wait for the moment of...
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Greg Iles, Author . Scribner $25.95 (459p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3469-6
The shoot-'em-up potential of spiritual subject matter has recently been profitably exploited by a number of writers (most notably James BeauSeigneur in his Christ Clone trilogy). In this compelling, science-based entry, Iles (Sleep No More; 24...
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Greg Iles, Author . Scribner $24.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3470-2
Iles's previous thriller, 2003's provocative The Footprints of God
, featured an omnipotent supercomputer and an on-the-run duo racing around the globe from North Carolina to Jerusalem. This time, Iles returns to more familiar ground:...
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Greg Iles, Author . Scribner $25.95 (502p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3471-9
A string of unique bestsellers (24 Hours
, etc.) is testament to Iles's ability to leap genres and geography. His latest, a gripping legal mystery set in Natchez, Miss., proves he doesn't have to stray far from home to explore the darkest...
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Greg Iles, Author . Scribner $25.95 (385p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9250-4
While not as twisty as True Evil
(2006), bestseller Iles’s new thriller injects both depth and novelty into a genre convention—the jealous husband who’s tipped off to his wife’s infidelity. When Laurel Shields, a 35-year-old
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Greg Iles, Author . Scribner $26.95 (580p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9251-1
Bestseller Iles's stellar third suspense novel to feature Penn Cage (after Turning Angel
) finds the former prosecutor and bestselling novelist serving as the mayor of Natchez, Miss., his hometown. Frustrated by his limited ability to change...
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Greg Iles, Author Scribner $25.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9249-8
Smooth prose, psychological depth and crafty plotting lift bestseller Iles's latest suspense thriller, which puts a fresh twist on a familiar theme-the cat-and-mouse game between an FBI agent and a fiendishly-clever serial killer. One personal...
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Greg Iles, read by David Ledoux. Harper Audio, , 30 CDs, 36 hrs., unabridged, $65.99 ISBN 978-0-06-233186-1
Theater and film actor Ledoux is given a full vocal workout in this ambitious novel set in the apparently still (as of 2005) Ku Klux Klan–infested state of Mississippi. The book spans several decades of Klan villainy, from torture and murder in the...
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Greg Iles, Author, Dick Hill, Read by , read by Dick Hill. Brilliance Audio $40.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-1793-7
As well-tuned here as he was when he narrated Iles's last Deep South thriller, Turning Angel
, Hill takes a smart half-step back from the novel's near-hyperbolic but effective mixture of suspense and spooky science. The plot begins at full...
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Greg Iles, Author, Dick Hill, Read by , read by Dick Hill. Brilliance Audio $40.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59086-606-1
Hill, one of the best interpreters of novels featuring thoughtful male protagonists under pressure, was an inspired choice for Iles's powerful tale of murder, sex, drugs, Deep South societal unrest and generational confusion. Respectful of the...
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Greg Iles, Author, David Colacci, Read by , read by David Colacci. Brilliance Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-1803-3
David Colacci's narration rises above Iles's potboiler material to deliver an entertaining, and at times exciting, story. When Warren Shields finds an unsigned love letter to his wife of 12 years, she refuses to identify the writer. Crazed
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Greg Iles, Author, Susie Breck, Director, Dick Hill, Read by , read by Dick Hill. Brilliance $38.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-1813-2
Iles's third addition to the Penn Cage saga is an effective thriller that would have been even more satisfying at half its length. There is a lot of story to cover, with Cage now mayor of Natchez, Miss., battling to save his hometown, his...
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