Penn Cage is a fictional

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turned writer created by author

Greg Iles Greg Iles (born 1960) is an American novelist who lives in Mississippi. He has published seventeen novels and one novella, spanning a variety of genres. Early life Iles was born in 1960 in Stuttgart, West Germany, where his physician father ran t ...

in his novel '' The Quiet Game'' (1999). Cage also appears in Iles' novels ''Turning Angel'' (2005), and ''The Devil's Punchbowl'' (2009), and the novella ''The Death Factory'' (2014). He appeared in the trilogy of ''Natchez Burning'' (2014), ''The Bone Tree'' (2015), and ''Mississippi Blood'' (2017). He also makes minor appearances in '' Sleep No More'' (2002) and ''True Evil'' (2006). His last appearance is in ''Southern Man'' (2024).

Background

''The Quiet Game''

Penn Cage is first introduced at

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with his four-year-old daughter Annie. It is revealed that his wife, Sarah, died seven months prior. Cage was previously a prosecuting attorney in

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, Texas, where he was involved in the trial and conviction of white supremacist Arthur Lee Hanratty, making himself an enemy in the form of John Portman, fictional

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director. Cage decides to spend some time in his childhood home, Natchez, Mississippi, so that his parents can help him deal with his and Annie's grief. Cage gets involved in investigating the murder of Delano Payton in 1968, which leads him to reunite with former lover, Olivia "Livy" Marston, who has haunted him since her mysterious disappearance after their high-school graduation. With the help of newspaper heiress Caitlin Masters, Cage tries to link Livy's father Leo, to the murder, all the while rediscovering the secrets and intrigue of the town in which he grew up.

External links

The Official Greg Iles Website

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cage, Penn Characters in crime novel series Fictional characters from Mississippi Fictional prosecutors Fictional writers Literary characters introduced in 1999