He is also a happy family man, as well as a straight arrow citizen in the small community in which he lives. The Bone Tree (Penn Cage #5 / Nachez Burning #2), 2015ħ.In Sleep No More, Greg Iles writes about John Waters, who is a geologist heading a successful oil drilling business.

Natchez Burning (Penn Cage #4 / Nachez Burning #1), 2014Ħ. The Death Factory (Penn Cage #3.5), 2014ĥ. The Devil’s Punchbowl (Penn Cage #3), 2009Ĥ. Here are the Greg Iles books in order for his numerous mystery and thriller series, both in series and as standalone novels.ģ. It also includes interactive quizzes that allows the reader to get a glimpse into the lives of authors and musicians. It was with this group that he co-authored Hard Listening in 2013, featuring essays, photographs, fiction, various conversations, and musings. With his love for music still going strong, Greg Iles joined the literary musical group The Rock Bottom Remainders, which had over the years several other popular novelists, including Steven King, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, and Mitch Albom, to name just a few. Penn Cage appeared in some of the author’s previous novels as well, including The Quiet Game, Turning Angel and the Deil’s Punchbowl, however his role was small smaller compared to when he got his own trilogy to star in. While he was recuperating, for the next three years he started and finished his Penn Cage legal thriller trilogy, featuring the former prosecutor who is a writer wannabe. To save him, doctors put him in an induced coma that lasted 8 days. In 2011 the author suffered a life-threatening car accident in which he lost his right leg below the knee.

Over the years, he wrote several novels that ended up various bestsellers lists. Eventually its name was changed to Trapped. In 2002 he wrote the script for 24-Hours, a movie made based on his same-name book.

After getting married and starting his work on his debut novel, Spandau Phoenix, he left the band. Growing up in Natchez, he attended Trinity Episcopal Day School, following which, he went to the University of Mississippi, from which he graduated in 1983.īefore becoming an establish novelist, Greg Iles was part of a band called Frankly Scarlet, as a singer, song writer, and guitarist. He soon moved with his family to the US, to Natchez, Mississippi, a place which is the setting for several of his crime novels. He was born in 1960 in Stuttgart, Germany. His most popular work to date is his Penn Cage thriller series. Greg Iles ( website) is an American crime mystery author who has written 16 novels and one novella so far.

Sleep No More by Greg Iles