Turning Angel by Greg Iles

Penn Cage of Natchez, Mississippi, former lawyer now a writer, is hired by his close friend Dr Drew Elliott when Dr Elliott's teenage lover is found murdered near the Mississippi River. A senior at St. Stephen's Prep, Kate Townsend appeared to have the world on a string. But like her school and her town, Kate had a secret life - one about which Dr Elliott knew little. Enter Shad Johnson, a black district attorney whose dream it is to send a rich white man to prison. A work of fiction filled with sex, violence, and racism, Turning Angel keeps the reader enthralled with suspense to the very end. A very good mystery thriller. Sandy P