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Turning Angel

Turning Angel
A Novel  
This edition: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Availability: Available on or around November 18, 2008
List Price: $14.00
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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.

"What does a book's plot need to entice you? Sex, drugs, murder? How about sleazy politicians, bigotry, gunfights...and more sex?...If you haven't yet discovered [Iles], Turning Angel will have you wondering where he has been all your life."

-- USA Today

"Explosive...a powerful piece of popular fiction."

-- Chicago Sun Times

"Powerful....heartfelt....entirely gripping."

-- The Washington Post

"Powerful....heartfelt....entirely gripping."

-- The Washington Post
West Australian, November 20, 2009
...In The Devil's Punchbowl, slick purveyor of the Southern Gothic thriller Greg Iles plunges Penn Cage, hero of The Quiet Game and Turning Angel, into a terrifying world of gambling, murder, prostitution, blood sport and hot-air ballooning. ...
West Australian, November 19, 2009
...In The Devil's Punchbowl, slick purveyor of the Southern Gothic thriller Greg Iles plunges Penn Cage, hero of The Quiet Game and Turning Angel, into a terrifying world of gambling, murder, prostitution, blood sport and hot-air ballooning. ...
PublishersWeekly.com, May 26, 2009
...touching story, demonstrating his remarkable writing ability while putting it under a microscope. (Sept.) The Devil's Punchbowl Greg Iles. Scribner, $26.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9251-1 Bestseller Iles's stellar third suspense novel to ...