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Cemetery Road : a novel / Greg Iles.
Marshall McEwan is one of the most successful journalists in Washington, DC. But his father is terminally ill, and he must return to his childhood home - a place he vowed he would never go back to. Bienville, Mississippi, is no longer the city Marshall remembers. His family's 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. The city's only hope of economic salvation is a new, billion-dollar Chinese paper mill. But on the verge of the deal's consummation, two deaths rock Bienville to its core. Joining forces with his former lover, Marshall begins digging for the truth. But he and Jet soon discover that the soil of Mississippi is a minefield where explosive secrets can be far more destructive than injustice.
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- ISBN: 9780062824622 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 590 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019.
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| Subject: | Journalists > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Criminal investigation > Fiction. Corruption > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. Homecoming > Fiction. Mississippi > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction). |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at South Interlake Regional Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Stonewall Library | FIC ILES (Text) | 3678713814 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2019 February #2
*Starred Review* After the remarkable trifecta of Iles' magnificent, perhaps career-defining Natchez Burning trilogy, readers couldn't help but speculate about what the author would do next. After three thick novels, would he go with something shorter, sleeker, less freighted with dramatic import? Nope. His new book, coming in at more than 750 pages is another big one, butâas with the Natchez Burning novelsâit contains not an ounce of fat. The story starts simply: in Bienville, Mississippi, a man is murdered. Marshall McEwan, a journalist who was closer to the murdered man than he is to his own father, vows to expose the killer, but to do that, he must go up against the most powerful men in Bienville, who are part of a conspiracy that goes much deeper than McEwan could possibly have imagined. Iles sits alongside the icons at the top of today's crime-fiction mountain. He has made Mississippi his own in the same way that James Lee Burke has claimed Cajun country and Michael Connelly has remapped contemporary Los Angeles. Readers who have been eagerly awaiting his first post-Natchez novel needn't have worried; they will be talking about this one for a quite a while.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Another big, intense tale from a heavy-hitter. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2019 January #2
Bad things are astir on the banks of the Big Muddy, hallmark territory for homeboy Iles (Mississippi Blood, 2017, etc.). "Buck's passing seems a natural place to begin this story, because that's the way these things generally start." Yep. This particular bit of mischief starts when a Scoutmaster, surrogate father, and all-around good guy gets his head bashed in and his body dumped into the Mississippi. And why? That's the tangled tale that Iles weaves in this overlong but engaging yarn. Thanks to the back-room dealing of a bunch called the Poker Club, the little river-bluff city of Bienville has brought a Chinese paper pulp mill to town and, with it, a new interstate connection and a billion dollarsâwhich, a perp growls, is a billion dollars "in Mississippi. That's like ten billion in the real world." But stalwart journalist Marshall McEwanâthat's McEwan, not McLuhanâis on the case, back in town after attaining fame in the big city, to which he'd escaped fro m the shadow of his journalist hero father, now a moribund alcoholic but with plenty of fire left. Marshall's old pals and neighbors have been up to no good; the most powerful of them are in the club, including an old girlfriend named Jet, who is quick to unveil her tucked-away parts to Marshall and whose love affairs in the small town are the makings of a positively Faulknerian epic. Iles' story is more workaday than all that and often by the numbers: The bad guys are really bad, the molls inviting ("she steals her kiss, a quick, urgent probing of the tongue that makes clear she wants more"), the politicians spectacularly corrupt, the cluelessly cuckoldedâwell, clueless and cuckolded, though not without resources for revenge. As Marshall teases out the story of murder most foul, other bodies litter the stageâfortunately not his, which, the club members make it plain, is very much an option. In the end, everyone gets just deserts, though with a few postmodernly i r onic twists. Formulaic but fun. Copyright Kirkus 2019 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2018 October #2
Big-time journalist Marshall McEwan never thought he would return to his small Mississippi hometown, but his father is dying, and his mother can barely keep the local paper going. Alas, the town's economic rebirth seems to be based on corruption, and then an archaeologist is murdered at a construction site. With a 400,000-copy first printing.
Copyright 2018 Library Journal. - LJ Express Reviews : LJ Express Reviews
Major change is coming to the small Mississippi river town of Bienville. A Chinese firm has invested in a paper mill creating local jobs and bringing hope for the beleaguered citizens. When a local archaeologist and vocal critic of the project is found dead, political journalist Marshall McEwan doggedly investigates his childhood mentor's suspicious death. A hometown boy, Marshall knows the real power lies with the Bienville Poker Club, a group of a dozen ruthless businessmen. Along with his former girlfriend Jet and coffee shop owner Nadine, Marshall uncovers the sketchy political and financial machinations of the club, putting all their lives at risk. Iles has succeeded again by bringing the town to life with characters that are ever evolving and effectively showing that good versus bad is not always clear-cut when it comes to people or their intentions. VERDICT Best-selling author Iles consistently turns out atmospheric and action-packed thrillers (Mississippi Blood). Although a lengthy novel, this one reads quickly, much like those of Lee Child or Michael Connelly. [See Prepub Alert, 9/17/18.]âJoy Gunn, Paseo Verde Lib., Henderson, NV (c) Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2019 January #3
Marshall McEwan, the star of this compulsively readable thriller from bestseller Iles (
Copyright 2019 Publishers Weekly.Mississippi Blood ), returns to his hometown of Bienville, Miss., for two good reasons: his father's getting old and rickety, and the woman he loves still lives there. McEwan, who spent years as a top-flight investigative journalist in Washington, D.C., takes the helm of his family's failing 150-year-old newspaper,The Watchman , and is soon immersed in the biggest news in town: the impending arrival of a Chinese-financed paper mill that will supposedly get Bienville back on its feet. Meanwhile, rumors of corruption, back-dealing, and murder swirl around the project and won't go away. Lurking in the background is the Poker Club, a cabal of businessmen who have run the town from behind the scenes since the Civil War. And the slinky Jet Matheson, the love of McEwan's youth, keeps putting off divorcing her husband, Poker Club heir-in-waiting Paul Matheson, though she's perfectly willing to see McEwan on the side. Iles once again delivers a sweeping tale of family dysfunction, sexually charged secrets, and the power of wealth, with an overlay of violence and Southern sensibility. Despite the novel's length, it all goes by in a flash.Author tour. Agents: Dan Conaway and Simon Lipskar, Writers House. (Mar.)
