![]() ![]() The eruption of old horrors is prodded by a local newspaper editor who has been steadily digging into civil rights cold cases.Īt the end of Burning, there seems to be some hope for normalcy and the solving of heinous unsolved race crimes that have darkened the land for a generation but at the outset of Bone Tree, all hope for an easy resolution is lost. Bone Tree fleshes them out as living characters with their own strengths and foibles.īurning set the plot in motion with these three main characters’ lives turned upside down by the reemergence of the Double Eagles, a more murderous offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan, that had aligned itself with one of the richest men in Louisiana just across the Mississippi River, and a corrupt relative of the aging Eagles who aspires to be head of the Louisiana State Patrol. ![]() It starts off with a lightning pace and is engrossing until the very end that, surprisingly, seems to come too soon.īurning set the groundwork of the characters, including protagonist Penn Cage, a novelist, one-time prosecutor and current mayor of Natchez, his fiancee Caitlin Masters, publisher of the local newspaper, and Cage’s father Tom Cage, a beloved longtime family physician. Even for readers of Greg Iles’ 788-page “Natchez Burning,” book one in the trilogy about unsolved civil rights murders set in Natchez, The Bone Tree has daunting heft with 816 pages.īut if Burning were a jet runway, “The Bone Tree” launches into supersonic flight. ![]()
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