The central character is Penn Cage, lawyer, author and mayor of Natchez Mississippi. It is full of advances in the plot and development of the characters. THE BONE TREE does not follow the filler path. The first book is the set up the second is the filler the third is the highly anticipated conclusion. In many instances the middle book of a trilogy is basically full of filler. Now he has come forth with the second novel, THE BONE TREE, and it matches, or even outdoes, the first story in excitement and drama. Ken Follett pulled it off with his last set of novels, and Greg Iles got off to a good start with his novel NATCHEZ BURNING. When an author announces he is writing a trilogy of books just so it can contain his full story, one’s first thought is it had better be a good tale to stretch over that length. Cover of THE BONE TREE photo courtesy of William Morrow
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