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James Lee Burke (Author)
New York Times bestseller and ‘one of the finest crime writer’s America has ever produced’ James Lee Burke returns with his latest masterpiece, the story of a father and son…
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From New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke - an atmospheric, coming-of-age story set in Texas, 1952. Perfect for fans of Cormac McCarthy and Michael Connelly.
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One of the greatest American detectives is back! Detective Dave Robicheaux is facing his toughest case yet.
The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana in this gripping mystery from modern…
The sixth Dave Robicheaux novel from SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author James Lee Burke.
‘Evil, bigotry and doing the right thing. All are done as expertly as ever by a master writer’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
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The tenth Robicheaux mystery, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award.
A novel set during the Texas revolution.
A novel set in the Louisiana heartland.
‘The crime book of the year is unquestionably James Lee Burke’s HEARTWOOD …there is no better crime writing coming out of America’ EVENING STANDARD
A novel about the American Civil War.
The 11th Dave Robicheaux novel from bestseller James Lee Burke.
America’s finest crime writer pitches his hero Billy Bob Holland deep into Montana Paradise to some, to others a savage wilderness
The Convict and other stories is a superb collection of stories, set in and around the American Deep South - lush and mysterious, dripping with atmosphere like rain in the…
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America’s most acclaimed crime writer and winner of the 1998 CWA/Macallan Gold Dagger returns to Louisiana with his great detective, Dave Robicheaux
‘A lyrical and lovely novel that takes Burke back to the top of the crimewriting tree where he richly belongs’ Independent On Sunday
This is a fourth novel featuring former Texas Ranger turned lawyer turned crime fighter, Billy Bob Holland, set in the savage and beautiful landscape of Montana.
The fifth gripping novel in the highly acclaimed Dave Robicheaux series.
A superb Dave Robicheaux mystery from the multi award-winning crime writer.
A collection of evocative short stories from the celebrated author of THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN and the Dave Robicheaux series.
A mesmerising Dave Robicheaux novel from one of American crime fiction’s greats.
James Lee Burke with a compelling character: a sheriff with a haunted past on the hunt for a deranged killer.
Dave Robicheaux is on the trail of a serial killer, while trying to protect his daughter from a boyfriend with a dark side, in the eighteenth novel in James Lee…
Challenges that notion that mysteries and detective stories should be taken less seriously than so-called literary fiction. This book examines James Lee burke as a writer who has expanded the…
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James Lee Burke
From its opening scene in revolutionary Mexico to the Battle of the Marne in 1918, and on to the bordellos and saloons of San Antonio during the reign of the…
Dave Robicheaux is haunted by the sudden loss of his beloved wife. When he discovers that he may have committed the homicide he is investigating, the death of the man…
Published in 2020 by arrangement with Simon & Schuster, Inc. –Copyright page.
New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s –
"Published in 2022 by arrangement with Simon and Schuster, Inc."
Brenda Lee Burke
The book outlines the Walkerton E. coli crisis, which happened May, 2000. It examines how people were affected and how the tragedy occurred.
Haunting suspense and captivating villains, the hallmark of James Lee Burke’s bestselling novels of evil and redemption, are brilliantly evoked in his new Billy Bob Holland opus, the follow-up to…
From American master James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters - enslaved and free women, plantation…
In 2050 bored tech writer Chip Munk wins the biggest lottery to date. From that moment on his every decision determines not only his own future, but that of his…
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…
In his most autobiographical novel to date, James Lee Burke continues the epic Holland family saga with a writer grieving the death of his daughter while battling earthly and supernatural…
Despite their misgivings about the Cause, Willie Burke and his best friends, three young men from New Iberia, Louisiana, enlist in the Confederate Army and head off to war, in…
A masterwork of detective fiction–the most suspenseful, thematically dazzling accomplishment in the Robicheaux series. While Hollywood shoots a Civil War movie in the New Iberia parish, Robicheaux tries to contain…
Since winning the Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues in 1989, James Lee Burke has enthralled an increasing number of fans with books that transport the reader to the dangerous…
Lee H. Burke
A mbassador at Large: Diplomat Extraordinary is a welcome contri bution to the literature on contemporary diplomacy, and is especially relevant to the conduct of United States foreign relations. Concomitant…
In a novel that bursts with suspense, dead-on dialogue, and characters as memorable as the Louisiana bayou, tough-talking detective Dave Robicheaux is haunted by his discovery of the slain body…
J Lee Burke
An undercover NOVAS operative takes on a mission in Ireland and discovers an odd case involving the murder of thoroughbred horses.
Billy Bob Holland, the former Texas Ranger-turned-defense attorney introduced in Cimarron Rose , returns to find himself involved in a brutal feud involving a wealthy local kingpin and a ruthless…
One of the countrys most acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered on the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina.
When two women are brutally murdered in New Iberia, Louisiana, drug addicted blues singer Tee Bobby Hulin is suspected. But police detective David Robicheaux senses Hulin is innocent, and uncovers…
This powerful New York Times bestseller by the two-time Edgar Award-winning author brings back detective Dave Robicheaux in a moody, hard-hitting novel that goes the limit in its provocative blend…
