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Greg Iles

    8 de abril de 1960

    Greg Iles es un maestro del suspense, creador de intrincadas narrativas que profundizan en los aspectos más oscuros de la naturaleza humana y exploran complejos dilemas morales. Sus historias se caracterizan por tramas cautivadoras y personajes ricamente perfilados, que atraen a los lectores a mundos llenos de suspense y profundidad emocional. Iles posee una habilidad única para entrelazar narrativas apasionantes con profundos exámenes de la justicia y la redención. Sus obras ofrecen una visión apasionante de los secretos ocultos que yacen bajo la superficie de la vida cotidiana.

    Greg Iles
    Black cross
    The Quiet Game
    Natchez Burning
    The Bone Tree
    Mississippi Blood
    Las Huellas de Dios
    • Mississippi Blood

      • 704 páginas
      • 25 horas de lectura

      A father on trial for murder. A son whose world is falling apart. The No.1 New York Times bestselling final volume of the ground-breaking Natchez Burning Trilogy by Greg Iles.

      Mississippi Blood
      4,5
    • The Bone Tree

      • 800 páginas
      • 28 horas de lectura

      Penn Cage's father, Dr. Tom Cage, stands accused of murder and each effort to defend him unearths new, shocking secrets. At issue is the murder of Tom's former nurse, Viola Turner. The district attorney is quick to point the finger at Tom, citing his decades-old relationship with Viola. When Tom is taken into custody, Penn must explore the dangerous territory of Tom and Viola's shared history, set squarely in the most harrowing years of civil-rights-era Mississippi.

      The Bone Tree
      4,4
    • Natchez Burning

      • 560 páginas
      • 20 horas de lectura

      #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles continues the electrifying story of Natchez Burning with this second volume in an epic trilogy of blood and race, family and justice. Penn Cage is caught in the darkest maelstrom of his life. The death of his father's African-American nurse has fractured Penn's family and turned Dr. Tom Cage into a fugitive. Penn has inadvertently started a war with an offshoot of the KKK called the Double Eagles, and Penn's fiancee, journalist Caitlin Masters, is chasing the biggest story of her career. Both Caitlin and the Feds that Penn reluctantly teams up with believe Tom can lead them to evidence of America's most secret, shameful history, a time when powerful men committed violent race murders to conceal a conspiracy involving the Mafia, the Double Eagles, and the assassination of JFK. In the end, all roads lead to the Bone Tree, a legendary killing site that may conceal far more than the remains of the forgotten.

      Natchez Burning
      4,3
    • The Quiet Game

      • 434 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      If anyone knows Death, Penn Cage does. He, himself, has sent 16 men to their fate as District Attorney, and killed one by his own hand. And now his beautiful young wife is gone too, leaving him alone with their young daughter. He decides to go home; home means Natchez, Mississippi, and the ghosts of his past. There he stumbles over a long-forgotton crime - the death of a black man in '68 - which could explain not only his own life, but that of the whole community. A community which seems to have been playing the quiet game for the last 30 years...

      The Quiet Game
      4,2
    • It is January 1944 — and as Allied troops prepare for D-day, Nazi scientists develop a toxic nerve gas that will repel and wipe out any invasion force. To salvage the planned assault, two vastly different but equally determined men are sent to infiltrate the secret concentration camp where the poison gas is being perfected on human subjects. Their only objective: destroy all traces of the gas and the men who created it — no matter how many lives may be lost...including their own.Stunning....From the very first page, Greg Iles takes his readers on an emotional roller-coaster ride, juxtaposing tension-filled action scenes, horrifying depictions of savage cruelty, and heart-stopping descriptions of sacrifice and bravery. A remarkable story from a remarkable writer.

      Black cross
      4,2
    • Turning angel

      • 512 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      After winning the most dangerous case of his career, prosecutor Penn Cage decides to remain in his Southern hometown to raise his young daughter in a safe haven. But nowhere is truly safe—not from long-buried secrets, or murder... When the nude body of prep school student Kate Townsend is found near the Mississippi River, Penn's best friend, Drew Elliott, is desperate for his counsel. An esteemed family physician, Drew makes a shocking confession that could put him on death row. Penn will do all he can to exonerate Drew, but in a town where the gaze of a landmark cemetery statue—the Turning Angel—never looks away, Penn finds himself caught on the jagged edge of blackmail, betrayal, and deadly violence. By the time Penn arrives at the shattering truth, this quiet southern town will never be the same.

      Turning angel
      4,1
    • 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 corpse. Suspended from the FBI task force, Cat returns to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to regroup.Though her colleagues know her as a world-class forensic odontologist, Cat lives a secret life. Plagued by nightmares, and deeply involved with a married homicide detective, Cat holds herself together with iron nerves and alcohol, using her work as a substitute for life.But her family's secluded antebellum estate provides no sanctuary. When some of Cat's forensic chemicals are spilled in her childhood bedroom, two bloody footprints are revealed. This discovery sets in motion a quest to piece together Cat's past - buried memories that could tie her father's murder to the grisly deaths occurring in New Orleans in the present. For only by finding this remorseless killer can Cat save her sanity - and her life.

      Blood Memory
      4,1
    • Mortal fear

      • 705 páginas
      • 25 horas de lectura

      A brilliant killer is preying on women who use an erotic on-line computer network, and the network's operator must assume the identity of a woman who fits the victim's profiles to catch the murderer.

      Mortal fear
      4,1
    • Cemetery Road

      • 768 páginas
      • 27 horas de lectura

      When Marshall McEwan left his hometown at eighteen, he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away propelled him to become a successful journalist in Washington D.C. However, he is compelled to return home when his father is dying, and his mother struggles to save the family newspaper. The town is experiencing an economic revival, but it may be tainted by crimes linked to the state capitol and Washington. Complicating matters, Marshall's high school sweetheart, Jet, is married to Max Matheson, head of a powerful local family involved with the Bienville Poker Club. Chaos erupts when archeologist Buck McKibben is murdered, followed by the shocking death of Max's wife, found shot in their bed, with Max as the prime suspect. Max insists that Jet defend him, prompting Marshall, a journalist aware of how money and politics can corrupt investigations, to secretly team up with Jet. Together, they delve into both murders, uncovering a web of criminal activities beneath the town's recent success. As they dig deeper, they face resistance from those unwilling to confront the truth, leading to strained relationships and mounting pressure. Ultimately, Marshall discovers a long-buried secret within the Matheson family, and as the truth emerges, he grapples with the heavy cost of uncovering it.

      Cemetery Road
      4,0
    • True Evil

      • 611 páginas
      • 22 horas de lectura

      When an attractive new female patient walks into the surgery of Dr Chris Shepard, a busy young doctor in Natchez, Mississippi, his idyllic life is ripped inside out. Shepard's visitor is undercover FBI agent Alex Morse. She tells him his beautiful young wife of one year has been seen visiting a local divorce attorney. And this attorney has a group of clients whose wives and husbands have all mysteriously died. Just as Morse suspected, Shepard knew nothing of his wife's visit. Morse's proposition is simple: will Shepard help the FBI trap the murderer?

      True Evil
      4,0
    • The Devil's Punchbowl

      • 550 páginas
      • 20 horas de lectura

      When he was a prosecuting attorney Penn Cage sent hardened killers to death row. But it is as mayor of his hometown - Natchez, Mississippi - that Penn will face his most dangerous threat.

      The Devil's Punchbowl
      4,0
    • 24 Hours

      • 368 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      `A superbly crafted and clever book' (The Times) from Greg Iles, the New York Times No.1 bestseller. The perfect family. On the perfect night. About to become trapped in the perfect crime.

      24 Hours
      4,0
    • The hugely anticipated new Penn Cage novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and Cemetery Road, about a man-and a town-rocked by anarchy and tragedy, but unbowed in the fight to save those they love.

      Southern Man
      4,0
    • The Spandau Diary - what was in it and why every major power want it? Why did the entire history of World War II have to be rewritten as the future hung over a nightmare abyss? Takes the mystery of Rudolf Hess's unexplained flight to Scotland in the early years of World War II, and mixes it with a brilliant Fourth Reich nuclear conspiracy story.

      Spandau Phoenix
      4,0
    • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Penn Cage series explores the dangers of obsession in this gripping psychological thriller. John Waters is a successful businessman and a happy family man—but his life comes crashing down around him with one word from a beautiful stranger: “Soon.” Suddenly, he is face to face with a memory from his past—of an obsession that he thought he had escaped. One that now plunges him into the darkest side of love and passion... “This novel should come with a red wrapper marked DANGER: HIGH EXPLOSIVES.”—Stephen King

      Sleep No More
      3,8
    • The Footprints of God

      • 528 páginas
      • 19 horas de lectura

      From acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes a cutting-edge thriller in which the next phase of human evolution may not be human at all.... In a secret government lab, America's top scientists work on Trinity -- a supercomputer that could surpass the power of the human mind. As the project's ethicist, Dr. David Tennant works in a firestorm of limitless science and ruthless ambition. After a fellow scientist is murdered, David uncovers who the killer is. Desperate, he turns to Rachel Weiss, the psychiatrist probing the nightmares that have plagued him since joining the project, and both are forced to flee for their lives. Pursued around the globe, David and Rachel piece together the truth behind Project Trinity, and the apocalyptic power it possesses. But Trinity's countdown has already begun, and humanity is now held hostage by a form of life that cannot be destroyed. The only hope for survival lies in the shocking connection that exists between Trinity and David's tortured mind. Mankind's future hangs in the balance -- and the price of failure is extinction.

      The Footprints of God
      3,8
    • In the span of 24 hours, everything Laurel Shields believes about her life and her marriage to a prominent doctor will be shattered if she survives.

      Third Degree
      3,7
    • Bisswunden

      • 700 páginas
      • 25 horas de lectura

      Die Gerichtsmedizinerin Cat Ferry wird von der Polizei in New Orleans als Expertin für Bissspuren zu einer Mordserie herangezogen. Alle männlichen Opfer weisen brutale Bisswunden auf. Während ihrer Ermittlungen holt die eigene Vergangenheit sie ein. - Thriller.

      Bisswunden
      4,0
    • Thriller odehrávající se v současnosti na americkém Jihu vypráví příběh zdánlivě průměrného a láskyplného manželství, které se však přes noc promění v noční můru. Během jediného dne se hlavním hrdinům převrátí život vzhůru nohama. Warren na náhodné upozornění odhalí manželčinu nevěru. Odkrytí tohoto tajemství změní život jeho dětem i kdysi milované ženě. Hlavní hrdina reaguje značně agresivně, ohrožuje ženu zbraní, uvězní ji doma, v afektu zastřelí i svého kolegu. Rozuzlení spočívá nakonec v rukou místní policie a válečného hrdiny, kterého Laurel miluje.

      Třetí stupeň
      4,2
    • 1. Joe Pike, bývalý príslušník námornej pechoty, sa vyznačuje chladnokrvnosťou v krízových situáciách. Keď sa dvadsaťdvaročná Larkin Conner Barkleyová, dcéra bohatého obchodníka, ocitne v nebezpečenstve, jej otec najme Pika na jej ochranu pred zločincami. Úloha sa však ukáže byť zložitá, pretože útočníci sú napojení na niekoho z jej blízkeho okolia. 2. Jordan Buchananová je nadšená z plánovanej svadby svojho brata s jej najlepšou priateľkou, no profesor Horace McKenna jej pripomenie dávne nepriateľstvo medzi rodinami. Rozhodne sa dokázať, že je schopná spontaneity, a vyberie sa na dobrodružnú výpravu do Texasu za pokladom. Avšak pri pátraní v minulosti sa ocitá v ohrození života. 3. Louisiančan ponúka bohatým klientom "dokonalé" riešenie na vyhnutie sa emocionálnym a finančným ťažkostiam pri rozvode – smrť partnera bez podozrenia. Grace, manželka Billa Fennela, sa stane jednou z obetí, a jej sestra, agentka FBI Alex Morseová, sa rozhodne pomstiť jej smrť a zabrániť ďalším zločinom, hoci jej teória o neodhaliteľných vraždách je spochybňovaná. 4. V Bascome v Severnej Karolíne sú ženy z rodu Waverleyovcov považované za čudáčky, každá s unikátnym nadaním. Ich dom a záhrada sú plné prekvapení, kde kvety kvitnú mimo sezóny a plody majú čarovnú moc. Sestry Waverleyové sa snažia nájsť lásku v nečakaných miestach, čelíac každodenným výzvam života.

      Ochranca / Tanec v prítmí / Čisté zlo / Čarovná záhrada
      4,1
    • Tagsüber verkauft Harper Cole von seiner abgelegenen Farm aus Waren via Internet. Nachts hingegen arbeitet er als System-Operator für den exklusiven E. R. O. S.-Online-Dienst, zu dessen Kunden sowohl Hollywood-Stars als auch New Yorker Intellektuelle zählen. Unter der Zusicherung absoluter Anonymität plaudern diese Online-Benutzer im Internet ihre geheimen Wünsche und Obsessionen aus. Als plötzlich sechs weibliche E. R. O. S.-Kunden jeden Kontakt abbrechen, ahnt Cole, daß irgend etwas nicht in Ordnung sein kann. Und als die sechs Frauen schließlich ermordet aufgefunden werden, steht Cole plötzlich ganz oben auf der Liste der Hauptverdächtigen ...

      E.R.O.S.
      4,0
    • In "Schuld und Lüge" wird die Stadt Natchez erschüttert, als die Leiche eines Mädchens im Mississippi gefunden wird. Anwalt Penn Cage steht vor der Herausforderung, seinen besten Freund Drew Elliott zu verteidigen, der wegen eines geheimen Verhältnisses unter Mordverdacht steht. Ein fesselnder Thriller über Freundschaft und Wahrheit.

      Blackmail / Penn Cage Bd.2
    • Auswahlbücher

      Lieses Gift. Urlaub mit Papa. Am Ende des Weges

      Auswahlbücher
    • Doodsangst

      • 574 páginas
      • 21 horas de lectura

      Wanneer een seriemoordenaar zijn slachtoffers via een zeer exclusieve erotische babbelbox op Internet zoekt en dus niet te achterhalen is, probeert men hem via Internet in de val te lokken.

      Doodsangst