Dave Robicheaux novels
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Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 2
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Dave Robicheaux is trying to put a life of violence and crime behind him, leaving homicide to run a boat-rental business in Louisiana's bayou country. But one day while fishing in the Gulf with his wife Annie, he witnesses an event that will change his life forever. A small two-engine plane suddenly crashes into the sea and Robicheaux dives down to the wreckage to find four bodies and one survivor; a little girl miraculously trapped in a pocket of...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 3
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Evil crept into Dave Robicheaux's bayou world one night and destroyed the woman he loved. Now it's threatening the life of his innocent child. Framed for murder, the Cajun ex-cop is traveling far from his Louisiana home to clear his name, to help a friend, to save what remains of his family--seeking justice and revenge in the Big Sky Country of Montana.
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 4
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Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux goes undercover in the depths of the New Orleans criminal world after a death-row prisoner escapes.
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 5
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1993], c1992
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux knows the Sonnier family of New Iberia - their connections to the CIA, the mob, and to a former Klansman now running for state office. And he knows their past - as dark and murky as a night on the Louisiana bayou.
An assassination attempt and the death of a cop draw Robicheaux into the Sonniers' dangerous web of madness, murder and incest. But Robicheaux has devils of his own. And they've come out of hiding...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 6
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When Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni arrives back in town, this time as co-producer on a Hollywood movie set, Lt. Dave Robicheaux is convinced the mobster is linked to a series of brutal murders of young prostitutes and embarks on an investigation peppered with mob money, violence, and ghostly encounters in the Louisiana swamps.
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Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 7
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The search for a forgotten Nazi submarine sunk off the coast of New Orleans puts detective Dave Robicheaux and his family in serious danger.
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Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 8
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A brutal legacy of cruelty and hate is awakened in the bayou. When Sonny Boy Marsallus returns to New Iberia after fleeing for Central America to avoid the wrath of the powerful Giacana family, his old troubles soon follow. Meanwhile Dave Robicheaux becomes entangled in the affairs of the Fontenot family, descendants of sharecroppers whose matriarch helped raise Dave as a child. They are in danger of losing the land they've lived on for more than...
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Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
297 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Louisiana farmer is jailed for the murder, 30 years earlier, of a black civil rights leader. The farmer claims he is innocent and asks Dave Robicheaux, the sheriff's deputy, to help him prove it. Not easy, as it suits a lot of people to have the case closed.
10) Sunset limited
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 10
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to center stage in an incendiary new novel by James Lee Burke. A gripping tale of racial violence, class warfare, and the sometimes cruel legacy of Southern history, Sunset Limited is a stunning achievement, confirming Burke's place as one of America's premier stylists as well as master storytellers.
The forty-year-old crucifixion of a prominent labor leader named Jack Flynn remains an unsolved atrocity that has...
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Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 11
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
341 p. 25 cm.
Language
English
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Dave's search for his mother's killers leads him to the darker places in his past, and solving this case teaches him what it means to be his mother's son.
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 12
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New Iberia, Louisiana police detective Dave Robicheaux doesn't think that the most likely suspect in the murder of a teenage girl is really the killer. But the clues from a second body all point to him. Before Robicheaux can bring the true killer to justice, he must battle a painkiller addiction and soon what begins as a duel of wits turns into a dance of death.
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 13
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English
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When David Robicheaux, now a police officer based in the somewhat quieter Louisiana town of New Iberia, learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, a Catholic priest always at the center of controversy, has been the victim of a particularly brutal assault, he knows he has to return to New Orleans to investigate, if only unofficially. What he doesn't realize is that in doing so he is inviting into his life -- and into the lives of those around...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 14
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A rash of murders has unemployed sleuth Dave Robicheaux rejoining the New Orleans sheriff's department where he searches for a serial killer while investigating a clue to the disappearance of a young prostitute years earlier, trying to stay clear of the mob, and becoming romantically involved with an unconventional nun.
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Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 15
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Just when Dave Robicheaux thinks stability has come to his life, memories emerge to send the recovering alcoholic into a tailspin. It all begins with the appearance of a young woman named Trish Klein, who could be the daughter of one of Robicheaux's old crime partners. The suicide of another young woman named Yvonne Darbonne doesn't help his mood, either. Soon, Dave finds himself caught up in a web of connections linking the suicide to a Mafia thug...
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux finds himself living a nightmare when he is dispatched to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to search for a morphine-addicted priest, a vigilante, and two serial rapists in a city that has been reduced to the level of medieval society.
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
402 p. 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Dave Robicheaux returns in another adventure--only this time, he travels from New Iberia Parish to the wilds of Montana to solve the mysterious murder of a University of Montana coed and her boyfriend.
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Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to New Iberia, Louisiana, to investigate the serial murders of seven young women, while he worries about his daughter's relationship with a celebrated novelist who associates with an ex-convict author.
19) Creole belle
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Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 19
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
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When last seen in The Glass Rainbow, the previous book in the Dave Robicheaux series, Robicheaux was recovering in a New Orleans hospital from a near-fatal bullet wound. Immobilized and heavily medicated by morphine, he was visited there by a beautiful Creole woman named Tee Jolie Melton. After she's gone, his fond, hazy remembrances of her are rekindled by one song, "Creole Belle" on the iPod that she left behind. Now obsessed by the song and thoughts...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 20
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Police detective Dave Robicheaux faces off with the most diabolical villain he has ever faced in the twentieth installment of the Dave Robicheaux series. Sadistic serial killer Asa Surette avoids the death penalty for murders he committed while capital punishment was banned. But when Robicheaux's daughter Alafair writes a series of articles implicating Surrette in other murders which could get him death, he decides to escape prison and make her pay....
21) Robicheaux
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English
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"Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. From the acts he committed in Vietnam, to his battles with alcoholism, to the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next. Images of ghosts pepper his reality. Robicheaux's only beacon remains serving as a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana. It's in that capacity that Robicheaux crosses paths with powerful mob boss, Tony Nemo. Tony has a Civil War sword he'd...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood director. Twenty-five years later, when Robicheaux knocks on Cormier's door, it isn't to congratulate him on his Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Robicheaux has...
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Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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"On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenage Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooning young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny...
24) Clete
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Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 24
Description
"Clete Purcel--private investigator, former cop, and war veteran with a hard shell covering just a few soft spots--is Dave Robicheaux's longtime friend and partner in detective work. But he has a troubled past. When Clete picks up his car from the local car wash, only to find it ransacked by a group of thugs tied to the drug trade, it feels personal--his grandniece died of a fentanyl overdose, and his fists curl when he thinks of the dealers who sold...