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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...
Author
Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Attorney and former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland becomes entangled in a web of sex, drugs, and murder when he agrees to defend his unacknowledged son Lucas Smothers against trumped-up charges of manslaughter and rape.
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Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 19
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 11
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
341 p. 25 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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.
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...
Author
Series
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...
Author
Series
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.
Author
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.
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