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James Lee Burke
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New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings Dave Robicheaux's partner and friend Clete Purcel to the forefront for the first time, as Clete and Dave attempt to stop…
A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from "America's best novelist" (Denver Post), the New York Times bestselling James Lee Burke.
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A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana, as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters-enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers-are caught in…
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In the latest Robicheaux novel, Clete Purcel - veteran, private investigator, and former New Orleans cop - takes centre stage for the first time.
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James Lee Burke (Author)
Detective Dave Robicheaux is back in his most difficult case yet.
The outstanding first book in the ever-popular Dave Robicheaux series.
BURKE JAMES LEE
New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with police brass, with killers and hustlers, and the bottle. Lost without his wife’s love, Robicheaux haunts the…
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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…
In the latest installment in his famous Detective Dave Robicheaux series, New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings Dave's partner and friend Clete Purcel to the forefront, as…
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…
"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…
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Laurence W. Mazzeno
The creator of Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux and characters based on his own family, James Lee Burke has used the mystery genre to explore enduring issues such as the nature…
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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…
A Civil War thriller shot through with Southern Gothic, from the godfather of Southern noir James Lee Burke.
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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…
America’s most acclaimed crime writer returns to Louisiana and one of the best-loved detectives in fiction, Dave Robicheaux.
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.
A novel in the Dave Robicheaux series, acclaimed as ‘one of the wonders of American crime fiction’ (MAIL ON SUNDAY)
Trouble is rising in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley and only one man is willing to stop it…
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
‘No argument: James Lee Burke is among the finest of all contemporary American novelists’ DAILY MAIL
The sixth Dave Robicheaux novel from SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author James Lee Burke.
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.
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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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.
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…
‘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.
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.
