Turning Angel marks the long-awaited return of Penn Cage, the lawyer h ero of The Quiet Game, and introduces Drew Elliott, the highly respect ed doctor who saved Penn's life in a hiking accident when they were bo ys. As two of the most prominent citizens of Natchez, Drew and Penn si t on the school board of their alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep. When th e nude body of a young female student is found near the Mississippi Ri ver, the entire community is shocked -- but no one more than Penn, who discovers that his best friend was entangled in a passionate relation ship with the girl and may be accused of her murder. On the surface, K ate Townsend seems the most unlikely murder victim imaginable. A star student and athlete, she'd been accepted to Harvard and carried the ho pe and pride of the town on her shoulders. But like her school and her town, Kate also had a secret life -- one about which...
Visa mer
Turning Angel marks the long-awaited return of Penn Cage, the lawyer h ero of The Quiet Game, and introduces Drew Elliott, the highly respect ed doctor who saved Penn's life in a hiking accident when they were bo ys. As two of the most prominent citizens of Natchez, Drew and Penn si t on the school board of their alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep. When th e nude body of a young female student is found near the Mississippi Ri ver, the entire community is shocked -- but no one more than Penn, who discovers that his best friend was entangled in a passionate relation ship with the girl and may be accused of her murder. On the surface, K ate Townsend seems the most unlikely murder victim imaginable. A star student and athlete, she'd been accepted to Harvard and carried the ho pe and pride of the town on her shoulders. But like her school and her town, Kate also had a secret life -- one about which her adult lover knew little. When Drew begs Penn to defend him, Penn allows his sense of obligation to override his instinct and agrees. Yet before he can b egin, both men are drawn into a dangerous web of blackmail and violenc e. Drew reacts like anything but an innocent man, and Penn finds himse lf doubting his friend's motives and searching for a path out of harm' s way. More dangerous yet is Shad Johnson, the black district attorney whose dream is to send a rich white man to death row in Mississippi. At Shad's order, Drew is jailed, the police cease hunting Kate's kille r, and Penn realizes that only by finding Kate's murderer himself can he save his friend's life. With his daughter's babysitter as his guide , Penn penetrates the secret world of St. Stephen's, a place that pare nts never see, where reality veers so radically from appearance that P enn risks losing his own moral compass. St. Stephen's is a dark mirror of the adult world, one populated by steroid-crazed jocks, girls desp erate for attention, jaded teens flirting with nihilism, and hidden am ong them all -- one true psychopath. It is Penn's journey into the hea rt of his alma mater that gives Turning Angel its hypnotic power, for on that journey he finds that the intersection of the adult and nearly adult worlds is a dangerous place indeed. By the time Penn arrives at
