New Releases by Greg Iles

Penn Cage kennt den Tod wie seine Westentasche: Als Staatsanwalt in Houston hat er sechzehn Menschen in die Todeszelle gebracht. Doch nach dem plötzlichen Tod seiner Frau sehnt er sich nach Ruhe und Frieden. Mit seiner kleinen Tochter begibt er sich in die Stadt seiner Kindheit, um den Schatten der Vergangenheit zu entfliehen. Doch Natchez, Mississippi, ist nicht der Ort, um seine Trauer zu begraben. Ein dunkles Geheimnis umgibt diese Stadt im Süden der USA, ein Geheimnis, das mit den Rassenunruhen der 60er Jahre verknüpft ist, und an dessen Aufdeckung niemand Interesse bekundet. Doch Penn Cage ist ein zu integrer Staatsanwalt, um ungesühnte Verbrechen ═ zumal solche, die bis in die höchsten Kreise des amerikanischen Establishements reichen ═ dem Vergessen anheimzustellen. Eine junge und attraktive Journalistin unterstützt ihn bei den Recherchen, die beide in große Gefahr bringen.

Laurel lebt mit ihrem Mann Warren und ihren beiden Kindern in der perfekten Nachbarschaft. Doch Laurel hat ein Problem: Sie ist schwanger, und zwar wahrscheinlich nicht von ihrem Ehemann. Eines Morgens stellt sie fest, dass Warren nicht neben ihr liegt. Er ist dabei, das Haus zu durchsuchen. Als Laurel später von der Arbeit heimkehrt, sitzt Warren auf dem Sofa, mit einem wilden Ausdruck im Gesicht. Vor ihm liegt ein Brief, den Laurel sorgsam versteckt hatte, ein Brief von ihrem Liebhaber. Und dann sieht sie den schwarzen Revolver in Warrens Hand. Doch Warren hat ein noch viel größeres Problem als die Untreue seiner Frau.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Penn Cage series comes an electrifying thriller that reveals a world of depravity, sex, violence, and the corruption of a Southern town. As a prosecuting attorney in Houston, Penn Cage sent hardened killers to death row. But it is as mayor of his hometown—Natchez, Mississippi—that Penn will face his most dangerous threat. Urged by old friends to try to restore this fading jewel of the Old South, Penn has ridden into office on a tide of support for change. But in its quest for new jobs and fresh money, Natchez, like other Mississippi towns, has turned to casino gambling, and now five fantastical steamboats float on the river beside the old slave market at Natchez like props from Gone With the Wind. But one boat isn''t like the others. Rumor has it that the Magnolia Queen has found a way to pull the big players from Las Vegas to its Mississippi backwater. And with them—on sleek private jets that slip in and out of town like whispers in the night—come pro football players, rap stars, and international gamblers, all sharing an unquenchable taste for one thing: blood sport—and the dark vices that go with it. When a childhood friend of Penn''s who brings him evidence of these crimes is brutally murdered, the full weight of Penn''s failure to protect his city hits home. So begins his quest to find the men responsible. But it''s a hunt he begins alone, for the local authorities have been corrupted by the money and power of his hidden enemy. With his family''s lives at stake, Penn realizes his only allies in his one-man war are those bound to him by blood or honor: -Caitlin Masters, the lover Penn found in The Quiet Can Game and lost in Turning Angel -Danny McDavitt, the heroic helicopter pilot from Third Degree -Tom Cage, Penn''s father and legendary local family physician -Walt Garrity, a retired Texas Ranger who served with Penn''s father during the Korean War Together they must defeat a sophisticated killer who has an almost preternatural ability to anticipate—and counter—their every move. Ultimately, victory will depend on a bold stroke that will leave one of Penn''s allies dead—and Natchez changed forever. After appearing in two of Iles''s most popular novels, Penn Cage makes his triumphant return as a brilliant, honorable, and courageous hero. Rich with Southern atmosphere and marked by one jaw-dropping plot turn after another, The Devil''s Punchbowl confirms that Greg Iles is America''s master of suspense.

In the span of 24 hours, everything Laurel Shields believes about her life and her marriage to a prominent doctor will be shattered if she survives.

A Southern doctor is pulled into a terrifying ring of murderous secrets in this powerhouse thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Penn Cage series. Dr. Chris Shepard has never seen his new patient before. But the attractive young woman with the scarred face knows him all too well. An FBI agent working undercover, Alex Morse has come to Dr. Shepard''s office in Natchez, Mississippi, to unmask a killer. A local divorce attorney has a cluster of clients whose spouses have all died under mysterious circumstances. Agent Morse''s own brother-in-law was one of those clients, and now her beloved sister is dead. Then comes Morse''s bombshell: Dr. Shepard''s own beautiful wife consulted this lawyer one week ago, a visit Shepard knew nothing about. Will he help Alex Morse catch a killer? Or is he the next one to fall victim to a deadly trap of sex, lies, and murder?

"Catherine "Cat" Ferry is a forensic odontologist, a specialist in bite marks and the clues they provide. But while Cat''s colleagues know her as a world-class scientist, she secretly attempts to manage her fragile psyche with alcohol, delving into the minds of rapists and murderers yet never allowing her own frightening past to creep into the foreground." "Cat''s latest case involves a disturbing murder in New Orleans. Banishing her personal demons, she focuses on the potential killer, until one morning she''s paralyzed by a panic attack at a grisly murder scene. Praying the attack is a onetime event, she continues her job as a consultant to the New Orleans Police Department, but when another victim dies in the same shocking way - raising fears that a serial killer is at large - Cat blacks out over the victim''s mutilated corpse." "Suspended from the FBI task force, plagued by nightmares, and at odds with her married lover - a homicide detective - Cat finally reaches her breaking point. In a desperate effort to regain control over a life spiraling out of control, Cat retreats to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi. But her family''s secluded antebellum estate provides no sanctuary." "When some of Cat''s forensic chemicals are spilled in her childhood bedroom, two bloody footprints are revealed. This sight shocks her more than any corpse she has seen in her career. Cat''s father was murdered when she was eight years old, but she always believed the crime occurred in the garden outside their home. The bloody footprints suggest otherwise." "Driven by this fragment of her past, Cat attempts a forensic reconstruction of the decades-old crime, even as developments in New Orleans task force pull her back into the case she left behind. Plagued by troubling nightmares, Cat pieces together the horrifying events she has been shielded from all her life. Soon, both she and the FBI realize that the murders occurring now in New Orleans are intimately bound up with Cat''s family and her past."--BOOK JACKET.

In this "New York Times" bestseller, Iles probes the terrifying possibility that the next phase of human evolution may not be human at all. Alarming, believable, and utterly consuming.--Dan Brown. Now available in a tall Premium Edition. Reissue.

David Tennant knows of the advantages that the project named Trinity can bring to the world, but he''s also seen the side effects that the research has had on those involved. There are some who don''t appreciate opposition and they''ll stop at nothing, including murder, to allow the project to continue.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Penn Cage series explores the dangers of obsession in this gripping psychological thriller. John Waters is a successful businessman and a happy family man—but his life comes crashing down around him with one word from a beautiful stranger: “Soon.” Suddenly, he is face to face with a memory from his past—of an obsession that he thought he had escaped. One that now plunges him into the darkest side of love and passion... “This novel should come with a red wrapper marked DANGER: HIGH EXPLOSIVES.”—Stephen King

When a psychopathic con man kidnaps Will and Karen Jennings'' five-year-old daughter, the couple decide to fight back to save their daughter.

A woman comes face-to-face with a serial killer who glorifies the art of death in this “ingenious”* thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Penn Cage series. They are called “The Sleeping Women.” A series of unsettling paintings in which the nude female subjects appear to be not asleep, but dead. Photojournalist Jordan Glass has another reason to find the paintings disturbing…The face on one of the nudes is her own—or perhaps the face of her twin sister, who disappeared and is still missing. At the urging of the FBI, Jordan becomes both hunter and hunted in a search for the anonymous artist—an obsessed killer who seems to know more about Jordan and her family than she is prepared to face...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles takes readers on a daringly executed roller-coaster ride as a family under attack takes justice into their own hands. It begins on a perfect night, with a perfect family about to be trapped in a perfect crime... Will Jennings is a successful young doctor in Jackson, Mississippi, with a thriving practice, a beautiful wife, and a five-year-old daughter he loves beyond measure. But Will and his family are being watched by a con man and psychopath who may be a genius. A man who has never been caught and whose victims have never talked to the police. A man whose life''s work strikes at the heart of every family''s unspoken fear: the unstoppable kidnapping. But this time he''s picked the wrong family to terrorize. Because Will and Karen Jennings aren''t going to watch helplessly as he victimizes them. They aren''t going to let him get away with it. They''re going to fight back...

Analyse: Roman policier (suspense).

INTRODUCING PENN CAGE... From the author of Cemetery Road comes the first intelligent, gripping thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Penn Cage series. Natchez, Mississippi. Jewel of the South. City of old money and older sins. And childhood home of Houston prosecutor Penn Cage. In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, this is where Penn has returned for solitude. This is where he hopes to find peace. What he discovers instead is his own family trapped in a mystery buried for thirty years but never forgotten—the town’s darkest secret, now set to trap and destroy Penn as well.

Tagsüber verkauft Harper Cole von seiner abgelegenen Farm aus Waren via Internet. Nachts hingegen arbeitet er als System-Operator für den exklusiven E.R.O.S.-Online-Dienst, zu dessen Kunden sowohl Hollywood-Stars als auch New Yorker Intellektuelle zählen. Unter der Zusicherung absoluter Anonymität plaudern diese Online-Benutzer im Internet ihre geheimen Wünsche und Obsessionen aus. Als plötzlich sechs weibliche E.R.O.S.-Kunden jeden Kontakt abbrechen, ahnt Cole, dass irgend etwas nicht in Ordnung sein kann. Und als die sechs Frauen schliesslich ermordet aufgefunden werden, steht Cole plötzlich ganz oben auf der Liste der Hauptverdächtigen.

A man with a secret life risks everything to clear his name in this “ingenious suspense thriller”(The New York Times Book Review) from the bestselling author of the Penn Cage series. By day, Harper Cole trades commodities from his isolated home in the Mississippi Delta. By night he leads quite a different life, serving as a systems operator for an exclusive, annonymous erotic online service that caters to the rich and famous. But now a stranger has penetrated the network''s state-of-the-art security, brutally murdering six celebrated female clients. Falsely accused of these horrible crimes, Harper realizes there''s only one way to lure the elusive madman offline and into the open. But as he enacts his daring plan, Harper will put everything and everyone he holds dear directly in the path of a brilliant, unstoppable killer...