NATCHEZ — Karla Brown wants to bring people together with her love of Natchez, and her love of the novels of Natchez native Greg Iles.

That’s why the Natchez resident started the GIRLS club, an online book club which stands for “Greg Iles Readers Love Suspense.”

The website, girlsbookclub.org, launched Thursday.

Brown describes the site as a place where fans of Iles’ work can discuss his stories from the comfort of their own homes.

“There may be a couple of hiccups at first to get us going,” Brown said. “But I think it’ll be great.”

The first novel Brown and the group will discuss online is “The Quiet Game,” a suspense novel set in Natchez and written by Iles.

The novel is the first in a series of books Iles wrote that follows main character Penn Cage.

Brown also operates a shuttle and touring service in Natchez. She gives a tour specifically on Iles’ books, and Brown said she wants to share her knowledge of the real world inspirations to help provide context for the books.

“Natchez has a lot to offer, I love that,” Brown said.

The name of the book club originated from a book signing Iles did after the release of his book “Natchez Burning” earlier this year.

The New York Times best-selling author hosted a book signing at Dunleith in May to benefit the Natchez Children’s Home.

Brown went to have copies of her Iles books signed by the author for friends and family, and she wanted Iles to sign it with something memorable.

Brown came up “Welcome to the GIRLS club.”

“I spent nearly two hours coming up with something for him to write,” Brown said. “He got a laugh out of it.”

Afterward, Brown kept thinking about the acronym, her friends who introduced her to the novels and others she has shared Iles’ work with, and she wanted to do more.

“I had just come up with the saying because I thought it was cool,” Brown said. “Then after that, I thought I should do something with it.”

While the name of the group is GIRLS, Brown said she does not want the group or the discussion to be gender exclusive.

The group will read the first four chapters of “The Quiet Game,” and start discussing from there.

“I’m hoping that this will take off by itself,” Brown said. “That way I’ll just have to plug in a sentence, and it goes off on it’s own.”

After the online group becomes more established, Brown said she hopes to bring the digital community into the physical world.

“Wouldn’t that be cool, just for no purpose to get together and gab about a book and eat,” Brown said. “Food, fun and fellowship.”