Historic England. "George Bennet memorial in General Cemetery (1376266)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 11 February 2006. Like his Penn Cage series, this is classic Greg Iles: the main character is a writer, it is set in a small Southern city (Bienville), with a plot combining long-buried secrets, southern culture, complicated family dynamics, and nasty politics. Bienville is struggling with socioeconomic depression, corruption, murder, scheming politicians, and powerful, rich, white businessmen with no scruples (the Poker Club.)

To complicate his personal life is his childhood love Jet, who is a lawyer and has married into the family of Max Matheson. Her husband, Paul, was Marshall’s good friend from school days and while in Special Forces saved Marshall’s life when on assignment in Iraq. The marriage is shaky, as her husband suffers from PTSD, and is drinking and over medicating. They have a son. Sergeant Thomas Sands (1783–1850). Sergeant in the King’s Dragoon Guards at the Battle of Waterloo. [21] The rating is only for the writing. I did enjoy the initial half of the book for the story but later continued reading because of the writing alone. It was spectacular. The setting of the story is in a small town called Bienville. The characters were so life like, I believe I can find them if I take a trip to that place.

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Some of the period’s most eminent individuals were laid to rest here – from feminist icon Emmeline Pankhurst to pioneering doctor, John Snow.

Radcliffe Cemetery has an area set aside for green burials and an ashes plot. Green burials are where a tree is planted instead of laying a headstone and environmentally friendly coffins can also be used.

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Bury Cemetery provides for burials of various religious groups. There are separate areas for Jewish and Muslim communities, babies, and young children and for burying ashes.

James Nicholson (died 1909). Prominent Sheffield industrialist. The memorial that he commissioned for himself and his family c. 1872 is Grade II listed. [18] Historic England. "James Nicholson Memorial in General Cemetery (1376265)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 11 February 2006. The Gatehouse ( Grade II* listed) [9] is built directly over the Porter Brook in a Classical architectural style with Egyptian features. The gateway itself resembles a Roman arch. It was possibly built over the river so that entering the cemetery was symbolic of the crossing of the river Styx in Greek mythology. In regards to the main story plot, while I have no doubt that rich, old, white men do control many, many things, this book was just unbelievable to me. The utter mayhem that these men, this Poker Club, bring is just not realistic. In small doses, sure, I think they can get away with murder, sleeping with every woman, bribing law enforcement/judges, etc. But the way it is described in this book is just ridiculous. These men control every aspect of this town and no one does anything about it. I just don't buy it.Bedroom One (3.64m x 2.86m) - With ceiling light point, wall mounted radiator, and uPVC double glazed window. An improved funerary service, aiming to give the cemetery financial sustainability. Brompton Cemetery is as much for the living as for the dead.

memorial regulations are provided with grave deeds following each burial. Further copies are available on request from the cemetery office Brompton Cemetery was founded in 1840 by the architect, inventor and entrepreneur Stephen Geary. When the directors of the cemetery held an open competition to design its principal buildings, the board rejected Geary’s own proposals and chose instead those of Benjamin Baud. Historic England. "Main Gateway and lodges to General Cemetery (1247071)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 11 February 2006. The General Cemetery in the City of Sheffield, England opened in 1836 and closed for burial in 1978. [1] It was the principal cemetery in Victorian Sheffield with over 87,000 burials. Today it is a listed Landscape (Grade II*) on the English Heritage National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. [1] It is also a Local Nature Reserve. [2] [3] It is owned by the City of Sheffield and managed on behalf of the city by a local community group, the Sheffield General Cemetery Trust. Story: 4 stars Greg Illes is the author of the Natchez Burning (or Penn Cage) series, the Southern stories that are part family drama, part crime, part who-dunnit. And this novel is no different.

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Greg Iles is one of the few authors that I make sure I read the newly released book right away. Other authors I can wait until I come around to it. The author has an amazing gift of weaving so many concepts together into one book and that is the case with this offering. In this one we explore unexpected loss of loved ones, political graft, love triangles, and a major conspiracy. All of these are put together without missing a beat. Even with all these concepts that isn't even the main concept of exploration in this book. That would be the choices we make whether we are forced into them or not and how we live with their consequences. These consequences could lead into heartache and pain and that is the result we have to bear. I will say, one touching moment in the book was the conversation between Marshall and his dad. I really enjoyed that scene, even if it did feel a bit convenient.