Greg Iles Books in Order

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.

Washington journalist Marshall McEwan returns to his dying Delta hometown of Bienville to run his family’s failing newspaper and care for his ailing father. When his mentor is murdered near the site of a lucrative new paper mill, Marshall uncovers a secretive Poker Club whose grip on the town reaches from bedrooms to the state capitol.

Tom Cage finally goes on trial for Viola Turner’s murder while the Double Eagles wage open war on the Cage family. As Penn works with acclaimed writer Serenity Butler to expose decades of cover-ups, courtroom fireworks and sudden violence drive the Natchez Burning trilogy to a wrenching conclusion.

Picking up days after Natchez Burning, The Bone Tree finds Penn Cage and journalist Caitlin Masters chasing Tom Cage and digging deeper into the Double Eagles’ crimes. Their search leads to a secret killing ground in the Mississippi backwoods and explosive ties between local racists and national power brokers.

When a heart attack sends Tom Cage to the hospital, Penn rushes to his father’s side and is reminded of his own past in a ruthless Houston prosecutor’s office nicknamed the death factory. A visit from a terrified crime-lab tech forces Penn to confront wrongful convictions there and the secrets his father still refuses to share.

Penn Cage’s world shatters when his father, revered small-town doctor Tom Cage, is accused of murdering Viola Turner, a Black nurse he once worked with. Trying to clear him, Penn uncovers a violent Klan offshoot called the Double Eagles and a string of civil-rights-era killings that still endanger everyone he loves.

Now mayor of Natchez, Penn Cage is handed evidence that a glittering riverboat casino is hosting dogfights and the abuse of women and children. When his informant is brutally killed, Penn pushes past corrupt officials and hired killers to dismantle an operation that makes blood sport out of his town’s desperation.

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.

Natchez physician Drew Elliott is accused of having an affair with brilliant teenager Kate Townsend after she’s found dead near the river bluffs. Penn Cage, Drew’s oldest friend, steps in to help and discovers a web of privilege, drugs, and secrets that reaches from the high school hallways to the town’s old elite.

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.

Ethics professor David Tennant works on a secret government project to build a quantum supercomputer called Trinity. After a colleague dies under suspicious circumstances, David flees with psychiatrist Rachel Weiss, haunted by visionary seizures as they race to expose a plan to merge human minds with machine intelligence.

John Waters has built a quiet life in Natchez with his wife and young daughter, but an encounter with a stranger convinces him that the vengeful spirit of his first love has returned. As accidents mount and jealousies flare, he has to decide whether the threat is supernatural, human, or both.

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.

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.

Grieving widower and former prosecutor Penn Cage brings his young daughter home to Natchez, Mississippi, hoping for peace. Instead he finds his father being blackmailed and is drawn into reopening a 1960s racial murder that powerful men will do anything to keep buried.

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.

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.

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.

After Rudolf Hess dies in Spandau Prison, Berlin policeman Hans Apfel stumbles on a hidden diary that could shatter comfortable versions of World War II. As rival spy agencies close in, he must protect his family and decide how much truth the world can bear.