They are better if you have read the previous book(s) but you can usually glean enough from the new material to catch you up on the evolving story. Usually author’s write the books of a trilogy to be stand alones. Penn is desperate to find his father and to protect him but Tom has decided to handle things on his own and doesn’t even let Penn know where he is.

Tom Cage, is on the run from the State Police because he is accused of murdering his nurse as well as a state trooper. They don’t like the investigating these two are doing into past murders in the area. Both Penn and Caitlin are in danger of being hurt or even killed by a secret group known as the Double Eagles. He is now engaged to Caitlin Masters, the editor of “The Examiner”, Natchez’ most influential newspaper. He is a widower with an eleven year old daughter. The central character is Penn Cage, lawyer, author and mayor of Natchez Mississippi. It is full of advances in the plot and development of the characters. THE BONE TREE does not follow the filler path. The first book is the set up the second is the filler the third is the highly anticipated conclusion.

In many instances the middle book of a trilogy is basically full of filler. Now he has come forth with the second novel, THE BONE TREE, and it matches, or even outdoes, the first story in excitement and drama. Ken Follett pulled it off with his last set of novels, and Greg Iles got off to a good start with his novel NATCHEZ BURNING. When an author announces he is writing a trilogy of books just so it can contain his full story, one’s first thought is it had better be a good tale to stretch over that length. The trail leads her deep into the past, into the black backwaters of the Mississippi River, to a secret killing ground used by slave owners and the Klan for over two hundred years… a place of terrifying evil known only as “the bone tree.Cover of THE BONE TREE photo courtesy of William Morrow While Penn desperately pursues both options, Caitlin uncovers the real story behind a series of unsolved civil rights murders that may hold the key to the Double Eagles’ downfall. Tom Cage - who is fleeing a murder charge as well as corrupt cops bent on killing him - is either to make a devil’s bargain with Knox or destroy him. The only way Penn can save his father, Dr. The puppeteer who actually controls the terrorist group is a man far more fearsome: the chief of the state police’s Criminal Investigations Bureau, Forrest Knox. Former prosecutor Penn Cage and his fiancée, reporter and publisher Caitlin Masters, have barely escaped with their lives after being attacked by wealthy businessman Brody Royal and his Double Eagles, a KKK sect with ties to some of Mississippi’s most powerful men.īut the real danger has only begun as FBI Special Agent John Kaiser warns Penn that Brody wasn’t the true leader of the Double Eagles.

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