Bücher der Reihe A Penn Cage Novel

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mississippi Blood, Greg Iles, keeps the secrets of the South alive in this vibrant novel of infatuation, murder, and sexual intrigue set in his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi.Turning Angel marks the long-awaited return of Penn Cage, the lawyer hero of The Quiet Game, and introduces Drew Elliott, the highly respected doctor who saved Penns life in a hiking accident when they were boys. As two of the most prominent citizens of Natchez, Drew and Penn sit on the school board of their alma mater, St. Stephens Prep. When the nude body of a young female student is found near the Mississippi River, the entire community is shockedbut no one more than Penn, who discovers that his best friend was entangled in a passionate relationship with the girl and may be accused of her murder. On the surface, Kate Townsend seems the most unlikely murder victim imaginable. A star student and athlete, shed been accepted to Harvard and carried the hope and pride of the town on her shoulders. But like her school and her town, Kate also had a secret lifeone about which her adult lover knew little. When Drew begs Penn to defend him, Penn allows his sense of obligation to override his instinct and agrees. Yet before he can begin, both men are drawn into a dangerous web of blackmail and violence. Drew reacts like anything but an innocent man, and Penn finds himself doubting his friends motives and searching for a path out of harms way. More dangerous yet is Shad Johnson, the black district attorney whose dream is to send a rich white man to death row in Mississippi. At Shads order, Drew is jailed, the police cease hunting Kates killer, and Penn realizes that only by finding Kates murderer himself can he save his friends life. With his daughters babysitter as his guide, Penn penetrates the secret world of St. Stephens, a place that parents never see, where reality veers so radically from appearance that Penn risks losing his own moral compass. St. Stephens is a dark mirror of the adult world, one populated by steroid-crazed jocks, girls desperate for attention, jaded teens flirting with nihilism, and hidden among them allone true psychopath. It is Penns journey into the heart of his alma mater that gives Turning Angel its hypnotic power, for on that journey he finds that the intersection of the adult and nearly adult worlds is a dangerous place indeed. By the time Penn arrives at the shattering truth behind Kate Townsends death, his quiet Southern town will never be the same.