Cemetery Road: A Novel [Paperback]

Dont miss the latest Natchez Burning novel, SOUTHERN MAN

Sometimes the price of justice is a good mans soul.

The #1New York Timesbestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy returns with an electrifying murder mystery of friendship, betrayal, and shattering secrets that threaten to destroy a small Mississippi town.

An ambitious stand-alone thriller that is both an absorbing crime story and an in-depth exploration of grief, betrayal and corruption& Iless latest calls to mind the late, great Southern novelist Pat Conroy. Like Conroy, Iles writes with passion, intensity and absolute commitment.

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When Marshall McEwan left his Mississippi hometown at eighteen, he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away spurred him to become one of the most successful journalists in Washington, DC. But as the ascendancy of a chaotic administration lifts him from print fame to television stardom, Marshall discovers that his father is terminally ill, and he must return home to face the unfinished business of his past.

On arrival, he finds Bienville, Mississippi very much changed.?His familys 150-year-old newspaper is failing; and Jet Talal, the love of his youth, has married into the family of Max Matheson, one of a dozen powerful patriarchs who rule the town through the exclusive Bienville Poker Club.?To Marshalls surprise, the Poker Club has taken a town on the brink of extinction and offered it salvation, in the form of a billion-dollar Chinese paper mill.?But on the verge of the deal being consummated, two murders rock Bienville to its core, threatening far more than the citys economic future.

An experienced journalist, Marshall has seen firsthand how the corrosive power of money and politics can sabotage investigations. Joining forces with his former loverwho through her husband has access to the secrets of the Poker ClubMarshall begins digging into the dangerous small towl#—