Natchez burning
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Raised in Natchez, Mississippi, mayor Penn Cage learned all he knows from his father, Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor has been accused of murdering the African-American nurse with whom he worked in the 1960s. Penn is determined to save his father no matter the cost. The quest for answers sends the former prosecutor deep into a dark conspiracy involving the vicious Double Eagles, an offshoot of the KKK controlled by some of the state's most powerful men. With the aid of a local reporter and his fiancée, Penn uncovers a bloody trail stretching back forty years, and is forced to confront a wrenching dilemma: does a man of honor choose his father or justice? (First of a trilogy.).
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I was so ready to recommend this book to others until I got to about page 200 or so. At that point, the story started getting sillier and the repetition increased. By the end, I was skimming.
Also, at the beginning, the author did a good job putting you in each character's shoes and using the change in point of view to move the story to interesting places. By the end, it was gimmicky and sloppy. Some of the characters also were cardboardy or just poorly drawn; I usually like strong females, but Caitlin Masters ended up being a shrill harpy. And black female sexuality was depicted in ways I haven't seen in decades.
I understand that Greg Iles had a terrible car accident while writing this book. While he had to make a valiant effort to recuperate, it doesn't excuse this book. Why wasn't the editor able to take this in hand and do something with it?
