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This was a real page-turner from Iles. Although the novel was over 600 pages long, it seemed to fly by as the story gets more and more intense. I have read a couple of other novels by Iles including The Quiet Game which was the first in the Penn Cage series. Penn Cage is a lawyer/writer who returns to his hometown, Natchez, Mississippi, with his young daughter to try to relax and forget after his wife dies. In this outing, his old high school friend, Drew Elliot, is charged in the murder of a young high school senior, Kate Townsend, who he was having an affair with. Drew acknowledges the affair to Penn but insists he was in love with her and did not kill her. So then who did? The plot gets a little convoluted when it is found that Kate has been providing pain drugs to Drew's wife. The drug dealer evidently had a thing for Kate and wanted her badly. But there are also others that may have had a motive including the high school coach and a young high school exchange student from Bosnia who is also involved in the drug trade.
To me this was really a compelling story with a lot of twists and red herrings thrown into the story to keep you guessing. I really enjoyed this and will be looking forward to reading more in the series as well as Iles's other works.
To me this was really a compelling story with a lot of twists and red herrings thrown into the story to keep you guessing. I really enjoyed this and will be looking forward to reading more in the series as well as Iles's other works.
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