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James Lee Burke (Author)
The 7th Dave Robicheaux novel from Sunday Times bestselling author James Lee Burke
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The second Dave Robicheaux novel from the award-winning crime writer.
The 8th Dave Robicheaux novel from SUNDAY TIMES bestselling and award-winning author James Lee Burke.
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James Lee Burke’s legendary detective Dave Robicheaux returns to try to save his daughter from a sadistic killer.
A fateful encounter with Bonnie and Clyde, a crime of greed, cruelty and the horror of war. From the award-winning author of THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN
A powerful and unforgettable thriller from ‘one of the finest American writers’ GUARDIAN
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…
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.
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…
New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s.
A powerful novel of conflict, history and shadows from the past … by the bestselling, acclaimed author of THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN.
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…
Patricia M. Gaitely
James Lee Burke developed the character of Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux through twenty mystery novels published over three decades. In Robicheaux’s Roots, Patricia Gaitely explores the music, food, language, and…
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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…
Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland must confront the past in order to save his illegitimate son from a murder conviction in this brilliant, fast-paced thriller from beloved New York Times…
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…
Published in 2020 by arrangement with Simon & Schuster, Inc. –Copyright page.
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…
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."
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…
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…
EDGAR AWARD WINNER FOR BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR
From New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and…
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…
New edition of award-winner James Lee Burke's powerful crime novel set against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina and its devastating effects on New Orleans.
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.
Since his youth, New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux has regulated his missing mother, Mae Guillory, to the deepest recesses of his memory. Dave is then asked by a pimp if…
Burke, a rare winner of two Edgar Awards and named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, returns with a compelling portrait of contemporary Texas and a man caught…
For years, Det. Dave Robicheaux of the New Iberia Sheriff’s office kept the secret of the watery resting place of the Nazi submarine. Now decades later, when a powerful Jewish…
Robicheaux, a recovering alcoholic, has retired to bayou country when a small plane full of passengers, and trouble, drops out of the sky near his boat. But as he rescues…
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…
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 an…
Far from Louisiana, Detective Dave Robicheaux and his wife attempt to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montana. But the serenity is soon shattered when two college students are…
Tough, former New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux is back. On a visit to a dying cop whom he once hated, Robicheaux is led towards the solution of the disappearance of…
In this haunting new novel, New York Times bestselling author Burke takes readers back to New Orleans, where detective Dave Robicheaux becomes engulfed in a dangerous mystery surrounding a beautiful…
Driven by a keen sense of right versus wrong in the fight against crime following Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana lawman Dave Robicheaux has his own demons of alcoholism and rage to…
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…
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…
Includes an excerpt from The glass rainbow.
Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to New Iberia to solve a series of grisly murders, in this latest installment by a two-time Edgar Award-winning author and Grand Master of the Mystery…
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…