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Author
Series
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.
2) Robicheaux
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
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.
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.
5) Creole belle
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
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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
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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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.
7) Bitterroot
Author
Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
334 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Texas Ranger turned lawyer Billy Bob Holland travels to Montana to help an old friend in trouble and finds himself in equal danger when an old enemy vows vengeance.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"The story of a father and son separated by war and circumstance--and whose encounter with the legendary Holy Grail will change their lives forever-- an epic tale of love, loss, betrayal, vengeance, and retribution that follows Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland on his journey to reunite with his estranged son, Ishmael, a captain in the United States Army" --
"After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Hackberry escapes the country...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 20
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 13
Language
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Wayfaring Stranger" begins in West Texas in 1934. At age sixteen, Weldon Holland encounters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker traveling with their accomplices after having just pulled off one of their notorious armed robberies. Weldon is smitten by Bonnie, but because of Clyde and Bonnie's duplicity and the disrespect they show his grandfather, Weldon ends up putting a bullet through the rear window of Clyde's stolen automobile. The story then jumps...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the center of this novel set against the Civil War and Reconstruction are the author's own ancestors, Robert Perry, from a slave-owning family of wealth and privilege, and Willie Burke, a poor boy born of Irish immigrants. Both join the Confederate Army, but are determined not to back down in their commitment to their moral beliefs, friends, and the abolitionist woman, Abigail Dowling, with whom both have become infatuated. The catalyst for much...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
On its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their sexuality. But beneath the glitz and superficial normalcy, a class war has begun, and it is nothing like the conventional portrayal of the decade. Against this backdrop Aaron Holland Broussard discovers the poignancy of first love and a world of violence he did not know existed. When Aaron spots the beautiful and gifted...
Author
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...
17) 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...
18) Dixie City jam
Author
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.
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
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this enthralling departure, Burke weaves the tale of Iry Paret. Released from prison after two years for manslaughter, Iry heads to Montana for a fresh start on a ranch owned by a prison buddy's father. He also hopes to nail down a song he's been working on, unable to get quite right. But soon new troubles bring tragic consequences, and it will take a lot more than a soulful tune to ease the pain.
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