Mississippi Blood (Iles) - Book Reviews

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A superb entertainment that is a work of power, distinction and high seriousness… also (a) prime example of what the thriller—and other forms of so-called "genre" fiction—can accomplish when pushed beyond traditional limits.
Washington Post


There is a graphic beauty to Iles’ writing. He uses measured words to express voluminous stories.… He is a masterful storyteller!
Huffington Post


[The books] are page-turning entertainments with an edge of history and a deep understanding of race relations in the American South.… Mississippi Blood is packed with compelling characters.… Harrowing and spellbinding.
Pittsburg Post-Gazette


Iles draws his characters so well, and brings off scenes so deftly.
Houston Chronicle


(Starred review.) Both unwieldy and tightly controlled, bestseller Iles’s terrific conclusion to his Natchez Burning trilogy (after 2015’s The Bone Tree) is a sweeping story that remains intimate.… The trial scenes are among the most exciting ever written in the genre.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review.) From his opening line, Iles draws you back into Penn Cage's deep South in this phenomenal trilogy's final novel (after Natchez Burning; The Bone Tree). His heart-racing, enthralling thriller brings to the forefront the racial divisiveness that still plagues this country.  —Joy Gunn, Paseo Verde Lib., Henderson, NV
Library Journal


(Starred review.) This trilogy is destined to become a classic of literary crime fiction.
Booklist


Iles brings his politically charged, timely trilogy of Mississippi murder and mayhem to a thunderous close.… Iles mostly sticks to the format of the hard-boiled procedural, though there's some nicely wrought courtroom drama here, too.… A boisterous, spills-and-chills entertainment from start to finish.
Kirkus Reviews