Greg Iles
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"The first in a trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles that weaves crimes past and present into a mesmerizing thriller featuring southern mayor and former prosecutor Penn Cage. Raised in Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned all he knows from his father,Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor has been accused of murdering the African-American nurse with whom he worked in the 1960s. Now Penn is determined to save his father...
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy returns with an electrifying tale of friendship, betrayal, and shattering secrets that threaten to destroy a small Mississippi town. When Marshall McEwan left his hometown at age eighteen, he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away ultimately spurred him to become one of the most successful journalists in Washington D.C. But just as the political chaos in the nation's...
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"#1 New York Times Bestselling Author The endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, his family, and the enemies bent on destroying them in this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy set in modern-day Natchez, Mississippi--Greg Iles's epic tale of love and honor, hatred and revenge that explores how the sins of the past continue to haunt the present. Shattered by grief and dreaming of vengeance, Penn Cage sees his family and his world collapsing around him....
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A follow-up to Natchez Burning finds Southern lawyer Penn Cage desperately struggling to protect his father from false charges and corrupt officers by confronting the puppet master behind the Double Eagles terrorist group.
Penn Cage's father, Dr. 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. At issue is the murder of Tom's former...
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Penn Cage novels volume 1
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English
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Natchez, Mississippi, is the jewel of the antebellum South, a city of old secrets and older money. Upon learning that his father is being blackmailed, Penn finds himself reopening the most highly charged murder case in the town's history, searching for the evidence that could bring down the judge who nearly destroyed his father years ago.
6) 24 hours
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A kidnapping ransom-seeker whose devious technological abilities have helped him get away with the crime many previous times now targets Will and Karen Jennings' five-year-old daughter Abby, and the family has only twenty-four hours to thwart his plan.
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Penn Cage novels volume 2
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English
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Lawyer Penn Cage returns to defend his best friend since childhood for the murder of a young female student, with whom his friend was intimate, at their old alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep.
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Penn Cage novels volume 3
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Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex...and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl.
10) Blood memory
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Catherine Ferry is a forensic odontologist--a specialist in bite marks--trying to solve a murder in New Orleans. When she blacks out over a victim's mutilated body, she is suspended from the FBI task force. She retreats to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, where she uncovers evidence that links a murder in her hometown with the murder in New Orleans.
11) True evil
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"Dr. Chris Shepard has never seen his new patient before. But the attractive young woman with the scarred face knows him all too well. An FBI agent working undercover, Alex Morse has come to Dr. Shepard's office in Natchez, Mississippi, to unmask a killer. A local divorce attorney has a cluster of clients whose spouses have all died under mysterious circumstances. Agent Morse's own brother-in-law was one of those clients, and now her beloved sister...
12) Dead sleep
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A mysterious series of paintings in a Hong Kong art museum, including one featuring a woman who bears a striking resemblance to her, draws photojournalist Jordan Glass into a painful search for the murderer of her twin sister.
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Scribner
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[2003]
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English
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Appointed as ethicist to Project Trinity, Dr. David Tennant finds himself in a pressure cooker of groundbreaking science and colossal ambition. When a fellow scientist is murdered, David turns to Rachel Weiss, the psychiatrist probing the nightmares that have plagued him during his work at Trinity.
14) Sleep no more
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
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c2002
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English
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John Waters is a man happy with his lot in life: genuine satisfaction with his growing business, contentment with the ease of family routines, and the pleasures of watching his daughter bloom. But this happiness is hard-won, and may be less stable than he would like to believe. A woman he meets casually stuns him with a smile, and whispers words that Waters thought long forgotten. Yet before he can find out how this stranger is connected to his...
15) Black cross
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Dutton
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c[1995]
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English
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It is January 1944, and as Allied troops prepare for D-day, Nazi scientists develop a toxic nerve gas that will repel and wipe out any invasion force. To salvage the planned assault, two vastly different but equally determined men are sent to infiltrate the secret concentration camp where the poison gas is being perfected on human subjects. Their only objective: Destroy all traces of the gas and the men who created it, no matter how many lives may...
16) Spandau Phoenix
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English
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After the death of Rudolf Hess a long-buried Nazi secret erupts into a nightmare. In the rubble of the prison that housed Hess a sheaf of papers is found in a hollowed brick, setting into motion a vicious competition.
19) Trapped
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
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[2003], c2002
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English
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A couple find their world has been turned upside down when they're taken hostage and held in different cities while their young daughter, who has severe asthma, is kidnapped by the same band of ruthless criminals and held for a large ransom. It seems that the criminals have a foolproof plan. Unable to contact the police, the criminals demand a massive ransom, but if the payment is not arranged in 24 hours, the girl will be killed.