The Quiet Game by Greg Iles

Penn Cage is a very successful writer of John Grisham type legal novels.  But his wife has just died after a long battle with cancer and he decides to return to his childhood home of Natchez, Mississippi to heal.  He and his young daughter Annie are just getting settled when Penn inadvertently rips open an old unsolved murder.  Many people try to pressure him to stay away from the case but the more they press Penn, the more resolved he becomes to uncover the truth.  Fans of John Grisham will love the action and legal maneuvering in this story.  There are few explicit sex scenes that seemed a little out of place.  Overall though, I thought this book was a very engrossing read and it made me want to visit Natchez! 564 pages.