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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  sringle1202 | Jul 15, 2009 |  Iles is one of the best modern day writters of today. I discovered him years ago with his early spy thrillers. Now he has turned to suspense and mystery and he does an excellent job. I enjoyed True Evil but it was not my favorite of his books. The story does draw you in and the book is hard to put down but the story line is a little thinner than his usual works. (  ) LB121100 | Jun 20, 2009 | Alex Morse is having a bad year, it has just gotten worse with the death of her sister, who told Alex on her death bed that her husband has killed her and begs her to save her son. This starts Alex on a single minded mission to do two things, prove her brother-in-law a murderer and more importantly, save her nephew. As her investigation she uncovers the next victim and enlists his help, unbelieving at first but slowly realizing that she is right. As Alex and eventually others get closer to the truth, the murderer decided to cut his losses and leave and the bodies start piling up. Greg Iles does a masterful job of pulling all the threads together and writes in such a fashion that the reader actually feels the tension, it made me want to call in sick so I could finish the book in a day. (  ) SuziR | Jan 15, 2009 | Another great Greg Iles book! The scheme is pretty complicated, and I think the scope of the government's involvement wasn't explored enough. Apparently, the good guys didn't care who sent the helicopter for the bad guy in the end. I also wish he'd explained how some of the non-cancer deaths were caused, like Grace's. But overall, it's a great suspenseful novel. ( ) miyurose | Dec 12, 2008 | Set in Greg Illes' fav milieu of Natchez, True Evil is good enough for a saturday afternoon read... Also features Penn Cage and Tom Cage... (  ) xavierroy | Feb 11, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0743292499, Hardcover)"If you wanted to kill your spouse and get away with it, you had to do something truly ingenious: something that wouldn't even be perceived as murder. And that was the service that Andrew Rusk had found a way to provide. Like any quality product, it did not come cheap. Nor did it come quickly. And perhaps most important of all, it was not for those with weak constitutions. Demand was high, of course, but few people were truly suitable clients. It took a deep-rooted hatred to watch your spouse die in agony, knowing that you had brought about that pain. But on the other hand, some people bore up remarkably well."With these words, New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles returns to his trademark Southern milieu in this terrifying thriller, an unnerving tale of evil lurking beneath the veneer of idyllic suburban life. Brimming with the masterful suspense and intense psychological drama that made Turning Angel, Blood Memory, and The Quiet Game bestsellers, True Evil tells the chilling story of a divorce attorney who may be orchestrating the deaths of his clients' spouses, bringing new meaning to the phrase "'til death do us part." Dr. Chris Shepard is thirty-six years old, newly married, and well on his way to a perfect life. Or so he believes. But that future is forever cast into doubt the day Special Agent Alexandra Morse walks into his office and drops a bombshell: Dr. Shepard's beautiful new wife is plotting his murder. Shepard is so shocked that he almost throws Agent Morse out of his office. Yet once he is alone, doubt begins to gnaw at him. Paranoia magnifies the small cracks in his marital relationship, and soon he can have no peace unless he knows the truth. When Agent Morse reappears, Chris agrees to act as bait to help her unravel the divorce lawyer's scheme, which may already have cost nine unsuspecting spouses their lives. At the center of the mystery lies a maddeningly simple question: If these people really were murdered, why can't the FBI prove it? Rigorous autopsies have uncovered no forensic evidence of foul play, and the police believe no crimes have occurred. As Dr. Shepard and Agent Morse struggle against an invisible adversary, Shepard realizes that he's working with a desperate woman. The reason: the killer's last known victim was Alex Morse's sister, who from her deathbed accused her husband of murder and extracted a vow that Alex save her ten-year-old nephew from his father. This has driven Alex to risk both her life and her career to fulfill that vow. But Chris Shepard soon feels desperation of his own. As he probes his wife's hidden past, he is confronted by the probability that the woman he loves wants him dead. He has adopted her son and given her everything he has to give, and yet somewhere out there, a killer with the brilliance to outwit the top forensic scientists in the world is closing in on him. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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(From Back of book):
"A Southern doctor is pulled into a terrifying ring of murderous secrets--in this powerhouse thriller from New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles." (