Natchez burning

By Greg Iles

Subjects: Fathers and sons, Lawyers, fiction, Conspiracy, Investigation, Hate groups, Fiction, suspense, Natchez (Miss.), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Trials (Murder), Fathers and sons, fiction, Murder, Penn Cage (Fictional character), Penn Cage (Fictitious character), Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Trials (Homicide), Ku Klux Klan, Mystery fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Race relations, Mississippi, fiction

Description: Raised in Natchez, Mississippi, mayor 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. Penn is determined to save his father no matter the cost. The quest for answers sends the former prosecutor deep into a dark conspiracy involving the vicious Double Eagles, an offshoot of the KKK controlled by some of the state's most powerful men. With the aid of a local reporter and his fiancée, Penn uncovers a bloody trail stretching back forty years, and is forced to confront a wrenching dilemma: does a man of honor choose his father or justice? (First of a trilogy.).