Books written by James Lee Burke

The Jealous Kind: A Novel

“Nichols started it.” “I'm scared,” he said. “They're just cops. It's our word against his.” “No. It was the look on your face. It wasn't you.” “Don't talk that way.” But I couldn't get his words out of my mind.
The Jealous Kind: A Novel

On its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their sexuality.
The Jealous Kind: A Novel

New York Times bestselling author and “the reigning champ of nostalgia noir” (The New York Times Book Review) James Lee Burke returns with a powerful novel in the Holland Family series set in 1950s Texas, as the specter of the Korean ...
Bitterroot

Voss, installé dans la Bitterroot Valley depuis la mort de sa femme, est soupçonné de plusieurs meurtres et craint des représailles pour s'être opposé à un puissant consortium minier qui menace la vallée.
Black cherry blues

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Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

“Joe Bim Higgins said there was only one print on the cross—Seymour's. Higgins assumed the killer had gloves on and tore the cross from Seymour's neck and flung it down the slope, probably in a rage. But what if Seymour broke the cord ...
Jesus Out to Sea: Stories

One of the brothers marched us down to Father Higgins's office and left us there to wait for Father Higgins, whose razor strop and black-Irish, crimson-faced tirades were legendary in the school. The office smelled of the cigar butts in ...
Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

You're always talking about a Martin guitar,” he said. “Why'd you leave me alone, Lou?” He sat next to her on the bed and spoke to her with his hands clenched between his knees, his voice lowered. His hair was shiny and black, ...
In the Moon of Red Ponies: A Novel

Beautifully written, with an intriguing plot and characters whose conflicts seem as real as life itself, this novel shows James Lee Burke again in the top form that has made him a critical favorite and a national bestseller.
White Doves at Morning: A Novel

At the center of the novel are James Lee Burke's own ancestors, Robert Perry, who comes from a slave-owning family of wealth and privilege, and Willie Burke, born of Irish immigrants, a poor boy who is as irreverent as he is brave and ...
Cimarron Rose

When his illegitimate son is wrongly accused of murder, Billy Bob Holland stands alone against the ruthless powers controlling the small town of Deaf Smith, Texas, as his investigation uncovers deeply rooted, high-level corruption, violence ...
Lay Down My Sword and Shield

Vintage James Lee Burke: The first novel introducing the memorable Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland, coming of age against the backdrop of the civil rights era in a sultry border town.
Robicheaux: A Novel

As Robicheaux works to clear his name and make sense of the murder, a harrowing study of America emerges: this nation’s abiding conflict between a sense of past grandeur and a legacy of shame, its easy seduction by demagogues and wealth, ...
Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel

A tender love story and pulse-pounding thriller, Wayfaring Stranger “is a sprawling historical epic full of courage and loyalty and optimism and good-heartedness that reads like an ode to the American Dream” (Benjamin Percy, Poets & ...
Feast Day of Fools: A Novel

James Lee Burke returns to the Texas border town of his bestseller Rain Gods, where a serial killer presumed dead is very much alive . . . and where sheriff Hackberry Holland, now a widower, fights for survival—his own, and that of the ...
Last Car to Elysian Fields

A masterful exploration of the troubled side of human nature and the darkest corners of the heart, and filled with the kinds of unforgettable characters that are the hallmarks of his novels, Last Car to Elysian Fields is James Lee Burke in ...
Pegasus Descending: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

Precariously content in his strict AA lifestyle at the side of a woman he loves, New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux finds his peace shattered by the appearance of a woman who is passing stolen money and the suicide of another woman who ...
Heaven's Prisoners

James Lee Burke’s second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou as he seeks a quieter life.
The Jealous Kind: A Novel

Intervening when he sees the beautiful and gifted Valerie Epstein fighting with her boyfriend, Aaron Holland Broussard inadvertently challenges the power of the Mob in his Korean War-era Texas community.
The Tin Roof Blowdown

Follows the adventures of detective Dave Robicheaux, who struggles with alcoholism and rage while fighting to protect lives in Katrina-devastated New Orleans.