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Lawyer Penn Cage returns to defend his best friend since childhood for the murder of a young female student, with whom his friend was intimate, at their old alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep.
Themes & subjects
Male friendshipTeenage girlsAttorney and clientCrimes againstFictionPenn Cage (Fictitious character)
First published 2005Setting
Natchez (Miss.)
About the author
Greg Iles
8 April 1960 – 15 August 2025
Greg Iles was born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany, where his physician father ran the U.S. Embassy Medical Clinic during the height of the Cold War. Iles spent his youth in Natchez, Mississippi, and graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1983. Iles spent several years as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band Frankly Scarlet. He quit the band after he was married and began working on his first novel, *Spandau Phoenix*, a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess. Primarily set in the Deep South, his later novels have been made into films, translated into more than 20 languages, and published in more than 35 countries worldwide. In 2011, Iles was serious…
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