Wednesday, January 31, 2018

THE QUIET GAME by Greg Iles

Finished Mo 1/29/18   I ordered this novel from Amazon after I was blown away by TRUE EVIL by Greg Iles. I loved this one even more, and I must get more by this author!

NOTES:

Set in Natchez, Mississippi
Penn Cage, a Houston prosecutor and famous novelist, returns to his childhood home with his young daughter, Annie after his wife has died of cancer.

He gets involved in a long unsolved murder investigation. In 1968 a black man was murdered. This man was involved in civil rights and unions, and the killing was thought to be racially motivated. J Edgar Hoover has sealed the investigation citing National Security.

Cage's ex-girlfriend, Livy Marston had left the area, and married and divorced in Atlanta. Her father, Leo is a powerful political force in Mississippi.

The reason for the killing is that Leo Marston was involved in a land deal and the distraction of civil rights and a union would hurt the business owner. So he killed the black man to stop any future labor unrest.

A newspaper reported becomes involved with Caitlin. And, Livy is still on the scene, but she is revealed to be more than a little shady.

Over six hundred pages and it never lets up for a single second.

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