The stunning new Penn Cage thriller in which a shocking murder from the 1960s finds new life - and victims - in the present. Penn Cage is facing a son's worst nightmare - having his father stand accused of murder. Worse, each effort to defend the legendary Dr Tom Cage unearths new, shocking secrets, leaving Penn to question whether he ever really knew his father at all. At issue is the murder of Viola Turner, once Tom Cage's nurse, before being transferred to Chicago, now back in Natchez and a corpse in her sister's house. What was the relationship between Tom, Viola, and the 'Double Eagle Club', an ultra-violent group of hardened men who considered themselves smarter, tougher, and more elite than their peers in the FBI-infiltrated Ku Klux Klan? In Natchez, where the past is never truly 'past', long-buried secrets turn lethal when exposed to the light of day. For Penn Cage, the cost of solving this case will be no exception.
This book was disappointing, maybe it's just me. I thought the book was repetitive, meaning it was way too long. The Kennedy conspiracy did nothing in my mind to enhance the story. I just didn't feel that all the story lines linked together.
While I believe that Greg Iles has great insight into the southern mentality, he sometimes losses that insight with his story lines. I don't think that I'll be reading the last book of this trilogy.This review was originally posted on THE PFAEFFLE JOURNAL
