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Third Degree»rank: 1262par: Greg Iles
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True Evil: A Novel»rank: 3074par: Greg Iles
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Quiet Game»rank: 4120par: Greg Iles
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ls there space in the overcrowded courtroom for one more writer of sharp, very suspenseful legal thrillers? Yes--if that writer is Greg lles, who has proven in such varied efforts as Black Cross, Mortal Fear, and Spandau Phoenix that he knows how to squeeze the last drop of suspense out of all sorts of situations. lles immediately makes us feel both sympathy and empathy for his glossy hero, Penn Cage--a former ace Texas prosecutor turned suspense novelist whose sales are up there in the John Grisham Himalayan range. Trying ... |
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Black Cross»rank: 22854par: Greg Iles
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ls there space in the overcrowded courtroom for one more writer of sharp, very suspenseful legal thrillers? Yes--if that writer is Greg lles, who has proven in such varied efforts as Black Cross, Mortal Fear, and Spandau Phoenix that he knows how to squeeze the last drop of suspense out of all sorts of situations. lles immediately makes us feel both sympathy and empathy for his glossy hero, Penn Cage--a former ace Texas prosecutor turned suspense novelist whose sales are up there in the John Grisham Himalayan range. Trying ... |
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Spandeau Phoenix»rank: 22974par: Greg Iles
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ls there space in the overcrowded courtroom for one more writer of sharp, very suspenseful legal thrillers? Yes--if that writer is Greg lles, who has proven in such varied efforts as Black Cross, Mortal Fear, and Spandau Phoenix that he knows how to squeeze the last drop of suspense out of all sorts of situations. lles immediately makes us feel both sympathy and empathy for his glossy hero, Penn Cage--a former ace Texas prosecutor turned suspense novelist whose sales are up there in the John Grisham Himalayan range. Trying ... |
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Dead Sleep»rank: 21867par: Greg Iles
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Greg lles lives up to the promise of his previous bestseller, 24 Hours, with a new thriller that showcases his ability to deliver top-level suspense as well as multidimensional characterization. When Jordan Glass, a world-renowned photojournalist, happens on an exhibit of a series of paintings known as 'The Sleeping Women,' she is stunned to discover that one of the models--a nude who, like the other women in the paintings, looks dead rather than asleep--is her mirror image. But Jordan knows the face in the painting isn't her; it's her ... |
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Sleep No More»rank: 23695par: Greg Iles
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Eve Sumner has an uncanny resemblance to a long-dead woman with whom John Waters was once obsessively in love. The successful Mississippi oilman's college affair with Mallory Candler ended long before she was killed, but the mysterious Eve knows things about that affair that only Mallory could have known. That's more than a coincidence, since Eve is actually Mallory's reincarnationor, at least, she's the corporeal body into which Mallory's restless soul seems to have migrated. Long before the bizarre denouement of this supernatural thriller--a departure for lles, whose previous ... |
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Turning Angel: A Novel»rank: 24036par: Greg Iles
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Eve Sumner has an uncanny resemblance to a long-dead woman with whom John Waters was once obsessively in love. The successful Mississippi oilman's college affair with Mallory Candler ended long before she was killed, but the mysterious Eve knows things about that affair that only Mallory could have known. That's more than a coincidence, since Eve is actually Mallory's reincarnationor, at least, she's the corporeal body into which Mallory's restless soul seems to have migrated. Long before the bizarre denouement of this supernatural thriller--a departure for lles, whose previous ... |
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Mortal Fear»rank: 2604par: Greg Iles
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Raymond Chandler once proclaimed that the first-person narrator should never turn out to be the villain in a good mystery or thriller. Luckily, the excellent writer Greg lles has seemingly ignored Chandler's advice. lles has created a character--Harper Cole, a futures trader and online pornographer--who could very well be the person killing off subscribers to his lnternet sex service. 0r is it Miles Turner, Cole's very odd colleague? lf you thought that stalking a killer on the lnternet had been done to death in books and bad movies, this ... |
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Blood Memory: A Novel»rank: 11688par: Greg Iles
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Raymond Chandler once proclaimed that the first-person narrator should never turn out to be the villain in a good mystery or thriller. Luckily, the excellent writer Greg lles has seemingly ignored Chandler's advice. lles has created a character--Harper Cole, a futures trader and online pornographer--who could very well be the person killing off subscribers to his lnternet sex service. 0r is it Miles Turner, Cole's very odd colleague? lf you thought that stalking a killer on the lnternet had been done to death in books and bad movies, this ... |