Greg Iles is the bestselling author of Third Degree, True Evil, Turning Angel, Blood Memory, and The Footprints of God, among others. For Penn Cage, the cost of solving this case is no exception. What was the relationship between Tom, Viola, and the 'Double Eagle Club,' an ultraviolent group of hardened men who considered themselves smarter, tougher, and more elite than their peers in the FBI-infiltrated Ku Klux Klan? In Natchez, Mississippi, where the past is never truly past, long-buried secrets tend to turn lethal when exposed to the light of day. The Bone Tree By Greg Iles HarperCollins 27.99 816 pages Even for readers of Greg Iles’ 788-page Natchez Burning, book one in the trilogy about unsolved civil rights murders set in. When Tom is taken into custody, Penn must explore the dangerous territory of Tom and Viola's shared history, set squarely in the most harrowing years of civil-rights-era Mississippi. The district attorney is quick to point the finger at Tom, citing his decades-old relationship with Viola. The Bone Tree (2015) by American author Greg Iles is the second of three detective novels known as the Natchez Burning trilogy (each set in Natchez, Mississippi). At issue is the murder of Tom's former nurse, Viola Turner. The second installment of his hard-boiled Natchez trilogy finds Iles (Natchez Burning, 2014, etc.) hero Penn Cage on even swampier, and surely deadlier. Tom Cage, stands accused of murder, and each effort to defend him unearths new, shocking secrets, leaving Penn to question whether he ever really knew his father at all.
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