16 Best Greg Iles Books

When Dr. Tom Cage is accused of murdering a former nurse, his son Penn must confront the case and the silence surrounding his father’s past. The investigation draws Penn into Natchez’s unresolved civil-rights-era violence while testing his loyalties to family and town.

As Dr. Tom Cage stands trial for murder, Penn Cage and writer Serenity Butler investigate the intertwined secrets of the Cage family and the Double Eagles. The final Natchez Burning trilogy novel brings a personal legal battle into conflict with Mississippi’s violent racial history.

Penn Cage searches for his fugitive father as the fallout from a murder accusation exposes deeper secrets in Mississippi. With Caitlin Masters beside him, Penn pursues buried civil-rights crimes and faces the violent Double Eagles, whose influence reaches far beyond Natchez.

Following his wife's death, former Houston prosecutor Penn Cage returns with his young daughter to Natchez, Mississippi. When a corrupt ex-cop blackmails Penn's father, Penn uncovers a decades-old murder and the violent secrets embedded in his hometown.

When a gifted teenage student's body is found near the Mississippi River, Penn Cage learns that his best friend, Drew Elliott, had a relationship with her and may be accused of murder. Penn's effort to defend Drew exposes blackmail, betrayal, and danger in Natchez.

In 1944, American chemist Mark McConnell and Jewish commando Jonas Stern are sent behind enemy lines to a Nazi death camp testing nerve gas. Their mission to sabotage the program forces them to weigh one horrific sacrifice against another to stop a far greater slaughter.

Forensic odontologist Cat Ferry is called to New Orleans crime scenes where middle-aged men have been shot and savagely bitten. Panic attacks and blackouts send her back to her Mississippi hometown, where the serial-murder investigation collides with repressed childhood memories and the buried sins of her powerful family.

Kidnapper Joe Hickey has perfected a twenty-four-hour scheme targeting doctors’ families, designed to end before the police can react. His latest victim, little Abby Jennings, is diabetic, and her parents fight back, turning his carefully scripted crime into a desperate contest of wits and survival.

On vacation in Hong Kong, photojournalist Jordan Glass discovers a gallery of paintings of nude women who may be murder victims—including her missing twin sister. Pulled into an FBI hunt for a sadistic killer, she must confront buried family secrets and the artist who treats murder as art.

Harper Cole trades commodities from his remote Mississippi home by day and secretly runs an exclusive online sex service by night. When a hacker starts murdering the site’s wealthy clients, Harper becomes the prime suspect and must hunt a brilliant killer across the digital and real worlds.

Journalist Marshall McEwan returns to Bienville, Mississippi, when his father is dying and the family newspaper is failing. A proposed paper mill and two murders expose the town’s entrenched power network, forcing him to confront political corruption, buried history, and his old love, Jet.

Years after the Natchez Burning trilogy, an aging, sick Penn Cage is drawn back into public life when a mass shooting at a Mississippi music festival and a wave of plantation arsons ignite racial tensions. As a decorated veteran launches a populist presidential campaign, Penn and his daughter Annie race to expose a plot that could push the country toward open conflict.

On an ordinary morning in small-town Mississippi, Laurel Shields discovers she is pregnant and unsure who the father is. Before she can decide what to do, her troubled physician husband finds proof of her affair and traps her and their children in a day-long hostage standoff that exposes financial crimes and intimate betrayals.

FBI agent Alexandra Morse believes a scientist is helping wealthy clients murder their spouses with untraceable methods. She warns Natchez doctor Chris Shepard that his wife may be next, pulling him into an undercover scheme where he must question his marriage and act as bait for a killer who never leaves fingerprints.

In this Penn Cage novella, a heart attack leaves Tom Cage on the verge of a confession, then sends Penn back to his years as a Houston prosecutor. A forensic technician's evidence of a failing crime lab makes Penn fight to stop a wrongful execution.

As mayor of Natchez, Penn Cage hopes casino gambling will revive the struggling city. Evidence from a childhood friend leads him to a hidden criminal world within a riverboat casino, where a sophisticated killer endangers Penn's family and allies.