When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, Robicheaux immediately senses that the most likely suspect, Tee Bobby Hulin, is not the real murderer.
Battling personal demons while working on two murders, New Iberia police detective Dave Robicheaux believes that chief suspect Tee Bobby Hulin is innocent but must find the real killer before one of the victim's fathers metes out his own ...
Jolie Blon's Bounce Proof
“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 ...
But deep down, he still feels the loss of his mother and knows the infinite series of disappointments in her life could not have come to a good end.
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, ...
“Reds was Warren Beatty's best movie, better even than Bonnie and Clyde,” she said. “Henry Miller did a cameo in there. Did you know he stayed here in 8145164814OTEXT.indd 222 6/10/13 12:29 PM 222 JAMES LEE BURKE.
This first novel by "New York Times" bestselling author Burke--a long-out-of-print Pulitzer Prize winner---tells the story of a Korean war veteran and ex-con who tries to put the past behind him, even as he becomes embroiled in a heated ...
This rich novel will satisfy Burke's fans and should draw new ones who have not yet had the privilege of reading his works.” —Library Journal “James Lee Burke is, quite simply, a genius, an exemplar of all that is great in American ...
... it into the flames. the denim burst alight and sank with its contents into the fire. “Welcome to Louisiana, mr. Perkins. i love your place,” i said. THAT AFTERNOON AN elderly cane farmer ten miles outside of The Glass Rainbow 83.
After hearing an old schoolmate's deathbed confession, Dave Robicheaux searches for a prostitute with ties to the mob that he had met decades earlier, an endeavor that proves dangerous in the wake of a series of murders.