From New York Time bestselling author Greglles comes his latest tour de force thrilier-an unforgettable plunge into a world of sex. violence, marital betrayal, medical malpractice,and Southern intrigue ... all of which takes.place in the span of one furious,terrifying day.

In Third Degree, Grog lies takes us to the idyllic town of Athens Point, Mississippi, to probe beneath the surface of the modern American marriage--where the appearance of perfection conceals a soul-searing conflict of intensity and violent possibility: Packed with the storytelling brilliance and twisting suspense that mcsmcrized readers of True Evil, Turning Angel, and Blood Mevnory, Hes's newest novel delivers a powerful and revelatory reading experience.

Laurel Shields, thirty-five and mothcr of two, awakens to find that her husband, Warrcn,a prominent local physician, is not in bed with her. Two weeks earlier, Warren and his partner werc informed by thc IRS that their medical practice was being audited; since then, the stress on Dr. Shields has stcadily ratcheted up.

But Laurel has problems of her own. She's about to discover she's pregnant, and she's not sure who the father is.

Later that morning, Laurel returns to her house and is surprised to find her husband's car still parked in the driveway.The house has a strangc stillness to it. In the den, shc finds Warren sitting on the sofa in the same clothes he wore the previous day. His face is pale and unshaven, his eves hollow with fear. Then, in comc the children, innocent of it all

So begins a seven-hour siege in the heart of suburban America, a terrifying drama that will push Laurel, Warrcn, and Laurel's lover to the very brink of sanity and survival. While a nervous ring of armed men awaits its chance to storm the home, inside the house the clock ticks down on exposure of Laurcl's terrible secret.

Rich with Southern atmosphere and laced with the tacit deceptions and psychological cracks found in nearly all marriages, Third Degree delivers another knockout, page-turning read from Greg Iles, "the poster bo.v of southern gothic thrillers" (Kirkus Reviews), and proves again that lies is today's unparalleled master of the suspense novel.