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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Waiting on Wednesday - Mississippi Blood



This is a weekly event that highlights a book we can't wait to be published.  It is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.  I'm not sure that Jill is still blogging, but we'll link to her blog anyway.

Another favorite author of mine is Greg Iles.  I have loved so many of his books and his latest have been a trilogy, set in his native Natchez.  This week I'm waiting on the 3rd book in the trilogy.  At last, we'll find out the 'rest of the story'.




Publication Date: March 21st

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. The woman he loves is gone, his principles have been irrevocably compromised, and his father, once a paragon of the community that Penn leads as mayor, is about to be tried for the murder of a former lover. Most terrifying of all, Dr. Cage seems bent on self-destruction. Despite Penn's experience as a prosecutor in major murder trials, his father has frozen him out of the trial preparations--preferring to risk dying in prison to revealing the truth of the crime to his son.

During forty years practicing medicine, Tom Cage made himself the most respected and beloved physician in Natchez, Mississippi. But this revered Southern figure has secrets known only to himself and a handful of others.  Among them, Tom has a second son, the product of an 1960s affair with his devoted African American nurse, Viola Turner.  It is Viola who has been murdered, and her bitter son--Penn's half-brother--who sets in motion the murder case against his father.  The resulting investigation exhumes dangerous ghosts from Mississippi's violent past. In some way that Penn cannot fathom, Viola Turner was a nexus point between his father and the Double Eagles, a savage splinter cell of the KKK. More troubling still, the long-buried secrets shared by Dr. Cage and the former Klansmen may hold the key to the most devastating assassinations of the 1960s. The surviving Double Eagles will stop at nothing to keep their past crimes buried, and with the help of some of the most influential men in the state, they seek to ensure that Dr. Cage either takes the fall for them, or takes his secrets to an early grave.

Tom Cage's murder trial sets a terrible clock in motion, and unless Penn can pierce the veil of the past and exonerate his father, his family will be destroyed. Unable to trust anyone around him--not even his own mother--Penn joins forces with Serenity Butler, a famous young black author who has come to Natchez to write about his father's case. Together, Penn and Serenity--a former soldier--battle to crack the Double Eagles and discover the secret history of the Cage family and the South itself, a desperate move that risks the only thing they have left to gamble: their lives.

18 comments:

  1. My husband read the first two (so did I) and loved them. The third one arrived a few weeks ago in the mail since I have a blog tour for it in late March and even though he is busy with wrestling practice, his job, and a graduate class, he started it and reads for a while each night. He says it is his favorite series of books ever.

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    1. I can understand that, Tina. The story that Iles tells in this trilogy is tough to read and important and mind-blowing. Can't wait to read it. May go back and read the other two again.

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  2. This is a series I've had on my radar for some time...and still have not gotten around to reading!

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    1. It's a good one. Tough story. Important story.

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  3. This one sounds good! Eerie, with ghosts and KKK...I do want to know more, so thanks for sharing. And thanks for visiting my blog.

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    1. This is a good trilogy, but the books are long. Better on the Kindle. :-)

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  4. Another series I need to pick up. I still haven't read anything by this author but always hear such good things about this books.

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    1. They are pretty intense, but worth the time.

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  5. I haven't read this series but I've heard amazing things about it. I hope you enjoy this one!

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    1. I'm sure I will. It will be good to figure out the whole story.

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  6. I enjoyed the first two books in the series but they are so intense, I may skip this one.

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    1. They are indeed intense. And brutal. I can understand if you don't want to read this one. :-)

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  7. This is an author I just didn't gel with, I'm not sure why though but after my first try I haven't visited him again..

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    1. I understand, Cleo. Not every author is for every reader. think part of my love for his works includes my familiarity with the part of the US that he writes about and also some of the time periods. I feel like I've lived through a lot of the times and issues he highlights.

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  8. My parents are chomping at the bit for me to put this into their hands. Not sure I'm going to get to read it before they do!

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    1. There is one member of my mystery group that is just 'chomping' too. She is so, so ready for this book! Hope your parents enjoy it - you too!

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Thanks for stopping by! I am so happy to hear your thoughts and will respond as soon as I can. Happy Reading!