Natchez Burning by Greg Iles
Penn Cage is a lawyer and the mayor of Natchez, Mississippi. He's engaged to fiery newspaper reporter/editor Caitlin Masters. Life is good until his father, Dr. Tom Cage--the man Penn has always admired most--is charged with killing Viola Turner, the beautiful black woman who had been his office nurse before fleeing for her life to Chicago decades earlier.
His father is being singularly close-mouthed so Penn starts to investigate on his own to find out what really happened. And he soon gets drawn into events that happened in the turbulent 1960s in Mississippi--and uncovers all kinds of dark deeds by supposedly model citizens. The more involved he gets, the more danger his loved ones are in. And he has no clue whom he can trust. At the same time, Caitlin is trying to help Penn but also trying to write the story of a lifetime, which sometimes puts her and Penn at cross purposes. And definitely puts Caitlin in the cross hairs of some very bad men.
Apparently the character of Penn Cage appeared in some earlier books by Greg Iles that I have not read--throughout the story there are references to earlier adventures. But Natchez Burning is the beginning of a new trilogy. Iles does leave us hanging at the end of this one so I can't wait for the next installment to appear.
Natchez Burning is a long book (almost 800 pages) but definitely worth the investment of your time, despite the frustrating non-ending ending.
His father is being singularly close-mouthed so Penn starts to investigate on his own to find out what really happened. And he soon gets drawn into events that happened in the turbulent 1960s in Mississippi--and uncovers all kinds of dark deeds by supposedly model citizens. The more involved he gets, the more danger his loved ones are in. And he has no clue whom he can trust. At the same time, Caitlin is trying to help Penn but also trying to write the story of a lifetime, which sometimes puts her and Penn at cross purposes. And definitely puts Caitlin in the cross hairs of some very bad men.
Apparently the character of Penn Cage appeared in some earlier books by Greg Iles that I have not read--throughout the story there are references to earlier adventures. But Natchez Burning is the beginning of a new trilogy. Iles does leave us hanging at the end of this one so I can't wait for the next installment to appear.
Natchez Burning is a long book (almost 800 pages) but definitely worth the investment of your time, despite the frustrating non-ending ending.
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