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When the body of Kate Townsend turns up near the Mississippi River and his close friend, physician Drew Elliott, admits to a love affair with the murdered girl, attorney Penn Cage once again tangles with the dark side of his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to investigate the secret world of…

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1 author picked Turning Angel as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The southern lawyer, Penn Cage, the attorney who has returned home to Natchez, Mississippi, to practice law, is the protagonist of Iles’s legal thrillers.

When a prep school student is found murdered, Cage must defend his best friend. Iles skillfully weaves a story of blackmail, betrayal, and violence in a small Southern town.

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This is the fourth book in the Joplin/Halloran forensic mystery series, which features Hollis Joplin, a death investigator, and Tom Halloran, an Atlanta attorney.

It's August of 2018, shortly after the Republican National Convention has nominated Donald Trump as its presidential candidate. Racial and political tensions are rising, and so…

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