Greg Iles

Greg Iles was an American novelist who grew up in Natchez, Mississippi, and set several of his novels there. He began with Spandau Phoenix, a thriller about Rudolf Hess, and during his recovery from a 2011 car accident he wrote three Natchez novels featuring former prosecutor Penn Cage, including The Quiet Game. Other books include Blood Memory and True Evil, and his last novel was Southern Man, published in 2024. He died at his Natchez home in August 2025, at 65, from multiple myeloma.