Turning angel
By: Greg Iles
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9781846176524
Subjects: Teenage girls; Fiction; Crimes against; Murder; Investigation; Legal stories; Trials (Murder); Male friendship
Description: Following the death of his wife five years ago, Penn Cage had given up being a lawyer and returned to live in his home town of Natchez, Mississippi. Now a successful writer, he thinks of the historic river town as an idyllic place to bring up his daughter... but the community is stretched to breaking point by racial tension and civic corruption. Then news breaks that a beautiful seventeen-year-old student has been found raped and murdered. That same evening, Penn's best friend Drew confesses to Penn that he has been having an affair with the girl - and was planning to leave his wife for her. When Drew is accused of the murder, he asks Penn to defend him in the most explosive case the town has ever seen.
Notes: Originally published: New York: Scribner, 2005; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006.