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Turning angel

Lawyer Penn Cage returns to defend his best friend since childhood for the murder of a young female student, with whom his friend was intimate, at their old alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep.

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  • "Lawyer Penn Cage returns to defend his best friend since childhood for the murder of a young female student, with whom his friend was intimate, at their old alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep."
  • "Lawyer Penn Cage returns to defend his best friend since childhood for the murder of a young female student, with whom his friend was intimate, at their old alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep."@en
  • "Penn Cage had already given up being a lawyer when he went back to his home town, Natchez, Mississippi. At first glance, it's an idyllic place - but beneath the surface, the community is stretched to breaking point by racial tension and civic corruption. When news breaks that a student has been found raped and murdered, no one is more shocked than Penn. For he discovers that his best friend Drew was having an affair with the girl and may be accused of her murder. Kate Townsend seemed a most unlikely murder victim. The beautiful 17-year-old was a star student and athlete, accepted for Harvard. But Kate also had a secret life - one about which her adult lover knew little. When Drew begs Penn to defend him, obligation overrides instinct and Penn agrees. But both men are soon drawn into a dangerous web of blackmail and violence in the most explosive case the town has ever seen ..."@en
  • "Penn Cage, a lawyer, and Drew Elliott, his best friend since childhood, sit on the school board of their alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep. when the nude body of a young female student is found, the entire community is shocked, but no one more than Penn, who discovers that his best friend was entangled in a passionate relationship with the girl and may be accused of her murder."
  • "Penn Cage had already given up being a lawyer when he went back to his home town, Natchez, Mississippi. At first glance, it's an idyllic place - but beneath the surface, the community is stretched to breaking point by racial tension and civic corruption. When news breaks that a student has been found raped and murdered, no one is more shocked than Penn. For he discovers that his best friend Drew was having an affair with the girl and may be accused of her murder. Kate Townsend seemed a most unlikely murder victim. The beautiful 17-year-old was a star student and athlete, accepted for Harvard. But Kate also had a secret life - one about which her adult lover knew little. When Drew begs Penn to defend him, obligation overrides instinct and Penn agrees. But both men are soon drawn into a dangerous web of blackmail and violence in the most explosive case the town has ever seen."@en
  • "When the body of Kate Townsend turns up near the Mississippi River, attorney Penn Cage tangles with the dark side of his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to investigate the secret world of a nearby elite high school."@en
  • "Drew Elliott is a small town doctor with a stellar reputation. Penn Cage is a lawyer who returned to his hometown to raise his daughter after his wife's death. When the body of seventeen-year-old Kate Townsend is found near the Mississippi River, Drew confides to Penn that he was sexually involved with the girl. She was twenty years his junior, not to mention a patient. Drew swears he is innocent of Kate's death and begs Penn for legal counsel. Penn feels compelled to investigate Kate's murder himself, but he must turn to Mia Burke, his daughter's babysitter and a classmate of the dead girl, for help. Mia serves as Penn's guide into the secret world of the elite high school, where Penn soon learns that Kate Townsend was not the All-American girl everyone believed. Exploring a surreal world of adolescent sex, drugs, apathy, and violence, Penn is forced to reevaluate his view of his old high school, his best friend, his hometown, and even himself."
  • "Drew Elliott is a small town doctor with a stellar reputation. Penn Cage is a lawyer who returned to his hometown to raise his daughter after his wife's death. When the body of seventeen-year-old Kate Townsend is found near the Mississippi River, Drew confides to Penn that he was sexually involved with the girl. She was twenty years his junior, not to mention a patient. Drew swears he is innocent of Kate's death and begs Penn for legal counsel. Penn feels compelled to investigate Kate's murder himself, but he must turn to Mia Burke, his daughter's babysitter and a classmate of the dead girl, for help. Mia serves as Penn's guide into the secret world of the elite high school, where Penn soon learns that Kate Townsend was not the All-American girl everyone believed. Exploring a surreal world of adolescent sex, drugs, apathy, and violence, Penn is forced to reevaluate his view of his old high school, his best friend, his hometown, and even himself."@en
  • "Lawyer Penn Cage is shocked to discover that his best friend Drew Elliott was involved with Kate Townsend, a recently-murdered student of their alma mater St. Stephen's Prep, and may be accused of killing her. Although his instincts counsel against it, Penn agrees to defend Drew, but before he can begin, both men are drawn into a web of blackmail and vioelnce."
  • "After winning the most dangerous case of his career, prosecutor Penn Cage decides to remain in his Southern hometown to raise his young daughter in a safe haven. But nowhere is truly safe - not from long-buried secrets, or murder. When the nude body of prep school student Kate Townsend is found near the Mississippi River, Penn's best friend, Drew Elliott, is desperate for his counsel. An esteemed family physician, Drew makes a shocking confession that could put him on death row. Penn will do all he can to exonerate Drew, but in a town where the gaze of a landmark cemetery statue 'the Turning Angel' never looks away, Penn finds himself caught on the jagged edge of blackmail, betrayal, and deadly violence."
  • "When the body of Kate Townsend turns up near the Mississippi River, attorney Penn Cage tangles with the dark side of his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to investigate the secret world of an elite nearby high school."
  • "When the body of Kate Townsend turns up near the Mississippi River, attorney Penn Cage tangles with the dark side of his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to investigate the secret world of an elite nearby high school."@en

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