- Penn Cage (Fictitious character), Trials (Murder), Fiction, Lawyers, fiction
Penn Cage must investigate when his father, a beloved family doctor and pillar of the community, is accused of murdering Violet Davis, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s.
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- gravecomic
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- Author
- Greg Iles
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 791
- Publisher
- William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062311085
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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 seriously
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