Mississippi Blood - Greg Iles

Mississippi Blood

By Greg Iles

  • Release Date: 2017-03-21
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 1,067 Ratings

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Don’t miss the latest Natchez Burning novel, SOUTHERN MAN The #1 New York Times Bestseller GoodReads Choice Award semi finalist, Amazon Best Mysteries & Thrillers of 2017 selection The final installment in the epic Natchez Burning trilogy by Greg Iles “Natchez Burning is extraordinarily entertaining and fiendishly suspenseful. I defy you to start it and find a way to put it down; as long as it is, I wished it were longer. . . . This is an amazing work of popular fiction.”    — Stephen King “One of the longest, most successful sustained works of popular fiction in recent memory… Prepare to be surprised. Iles has always been an exceptional storyteller, and he has invested these volumes with an energy and sense of personal urgency that rarely, if ever, falter.” —   Washington Post 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.  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 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. Mississippi Blood is the enthralling conclusion to a breathtaking trilogy seven years in the making--one that has kept readers on the edge of their seats. With piercing insight, narrative prowess, and a masterful ability to blend history and imagination, Greg Iles illuminates the brutal history of the American South in a highly atmospheric and suspenseful novel that delivers the shocking resolution his fans have eagerly awaited.

Reviews

  • Missippi Blood

    4
    By Dan Vermilion
    This is the second book I’ve read by Iles. Both have been excellent. I like this one too, very much. Yet, thought it was a little too long. But read it.
  • The Natchez trilogy incredible!

    5
    By A weird sister
    Wow I read these books and couldn’t put them down. Greg Iles evokes so many emotions. What beautifully written books. The understanding of human nature at its best and cruelest is so well written. Thank-you so much for these books. I am now a devoted fan
  • A rather disappointing end to the trilogy

    2
    By one_smart_hillbilly
    Hate to say so but it’s true.
  • Best in Trilogy

    5
    By Samnite100
    Great ending... or NOT? Many pieces of life left hanging, maybe Mr. Isles has one more trilogy to write?
  • Mississippi Blood

    5
    By Denio64
    Excellent conclusion to trilogy. The writing was crisp, characters, and they're were many, good, brutality sometimes excessive and unbelievable circumstances led to good fiction but not close to reality.
  • Do you like history of the south

    5
    By Txtilly
    I enjoyed everything about the story. Only problem are the marathon conversations. Tried speed reading, then went back and reread for fear I would miss something important. Still rated a 5 star because Isles is at the top of his game. Can't wait to read more.
  • Mississippi Blood

    5
    By Bee britches
    I just finished the last of your trilogy,Mississippi Blood. I have read all three on iBooks. I truly wish I had bought the hard cover books because with the closing of Sears & Roebuck, we are faced with a shortage of paper for our outhouse! Wishing you the best James Roy Appleton,Jr. MD #64 Winfield PLACE JACKSON,TN 38305
  • Mississippi Blood

    3
    By LoriChukk
    As a fan of happy endings, I was very disappointed in this book's final chapters. I kept waiting for a "big reveal" at the trial, but it never materialized, which was a huge let down. The book was too long and drawn out with a blase finish. And the protaganist just HAD to jump in bed with the first female that came into town? Seriously? Compared to the first two books in the trilogy, this was the worst. I think Iles dropped the ball on this one.
  • Mississippi Blood

    5
    By greyts
    Outstanding! Sorry it had to end. What a great trilogy he wrote. Can't wait for his next endeavor!!
  • Mississippi Blood

    3
    By Halleyj
    The last book of this trilogy was good, but at least 300 pages waaay to long. I actually skimmed the last several hundred pages.

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