Greg Iles

Greg Iles was born in Germany, where his father ran the US Embassy Medical Clinic during the height of the Cold War. He spent his youth in Natchez, Mississippi, and graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1983.

His first novel, SPANDAU PHOENIX, a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess, was published in 1992 and became a New York Times bestseller.

Lived: 1960 -

The Quiet Game

If anyone knows death, Penn Cage does. He has sent 16 men to their fate as District Attorney. And now his young wife is gone too, leaving him alone with their young daughter. He decides to go home, and home means facing the ghosts of his past.

Turning Angel

Turning Angel marks the long-awaited return of Penn Cage, the lawyer hero of The Quiet Game, and introduces Drew Elliott, the highly respected doctor who saved Penn’s life in a hiking accident when they were boys. As two of the most prominent citizens of Natchez, Drew and Penn sit on the school board of their(…)

The Devils PunchBowl

‘The poster boy of southern gothic thrillers’ (Kirkus review) delivers a powerful and unforgettable reading experience with The Devil’s Punchbowl, and he marks the return of Penn Cage, the popular protagonist of The Quiet Game and Turning Angel. The Devil’s Punchbowl refers to a deep pit near the river in Natchez, Mississippi. Not only have(…)

The Spandau Phoenix

The Spandau Diary – what was in it? Why did the secret intelligence agencies of every major power want it? Why was a brave and beautiful woman kidnapped and sexually tormented to get it? Why did the entire history of World War II have to be rewritten as the future hung over a nightmare abyss?

Black Cross

It is 1944. The world awaits the Allied invasion of Europe. Churchill has learned that Nazi scientists have developed Sarin–a new weapon that could turn the tide for Hitler. Two men–a pacifist American doctor and a fanatical Jewish assassin–must embark on a murderous mission into Germany. Their target–a human hell where Jews fuel Hitler’s last(…)

24 Hours (Trapped)

Hickey is a con-man and kidnapper who targets his victims with care. By staying with the person who has the money – and by checking the amount is affordable for them – he has never yet had to kill. But when he tries to rip Will Jenning’s family apart he gets more than he bargained(…)

Blood memory

Forensic expert “Cat” Ferry has a stellar reputation until a panic attack paralyzes her at a New Orleans murder scene. Praying the attack is a one-time event, she continues working, but when the same killer strikes again — raising fears that a serial killer is at large — Cat blacks out over the victim’s mutilated(…)

Book cover of The Footprints of God (Dark Matter)

The Footprints of God (aka Dark Matter)

“In the heart of North Carolina’s Research Triangle stands a corporate laboratory much like the others nearby. But behind its walls, America’s top scientists work around the clock to attain the holy grail of the twenty-first century – a supercomputer that surpasses the power of the human mind.” “Appointed by the president as ethicist to(…)

Mortal Fear

By day, Harper Cole is a successful commodities trader working from his home in the isolated Mississippi Delta. But at night he is a system operator for EROS, a sexually explicit on-line service that caters for the erotic appetites of an exclusive clientele. But Harper’s secret life is about to be shattered when a twisted(…)

Dead Sleep

When photojournalist Jordan Glass chances upon a painting which is part of an exhibition entitled ‘Nude Women in Repose’ by an unknown artist in the Hong Tsin museum in Hong Kong, she gets a rude shock. The face of the woman in the painting is that of Jordan’s twin sister, Jane, who vanished without trace(…)

Sleep no More

John Waters is a successful petroleum geologist with the perfect family. Then one day his world is turned inside out by a single word spoken from the lips of the stunning Eve Sumner. One solitary word that takes him back a decade to another woman and the most passionate of affairs. Mallory Candler was the(…)

Third Degree

Laurel Shields, thirty-five and mother of two, awakens to find that her husband, Warren, a prominent local physician, is not in bed with her. Creeping out to the kitchen of their palatial home, she sees him through the doorway of his study, wildly pulling books from the shelves. Two weeks earlier, Warren and his partner(…)

True Evil

Dr. Chris Shepard is thirty-six years old, newly married, and well on his way to a perfect life. Or so he believes. But that future is forever cast into doubt the day Special Agent Alexandra Morse walks into his office and drops a bombshell: Dr. Shepard’s beautiful new wife is plotting his murder. Shepard is(…)

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