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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
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 13
Language
English
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Description
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
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.
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 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...
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
Formats
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....
8) 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
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
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
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
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
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 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
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages : 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from "America's best novelist" (Denver Post), the New York Times-bestselling James Lee Burke. Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the...
15) 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...
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...
17) Cadillac jukebox
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.
18) Heartwood
Author
Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 291 p. 25 cm. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Texas defense attorney Billy Bob Holland takes on the defense of a young man accused of stealing more than three hundred thousand dollars from the town's richest man.
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