James Lee Burke
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 15
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A troubled young woman breezes into Detective Robicheaux's hometown of New Iberia, Louisiana. She happens to be the daughter of his friend--a friend he witnessed gunned down in a bank robbery, a tragedy that forever changed Robicheaux's life. The twists begin when Trish Klein--the only offspring of Robicheaux's Vietnam-era buddy--starts passing marked hundred-dollar bills in local casinos. Is she a good kid gone bad? A victim's child seeking revenge?...
2) Rain gods
Author
Series
Hackberry Holland novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Hackberry Holland became sheriff of a tiny Texas town near the Mexican border, he'd hoped to leave certain things behind : his checkered reputation, his haunted dreams, and his obsessive memories of the good life with his late wife, Rie. But the discovery of the bodies of nine illegal aliens, machine-gunned to death and burined in a shallow grave behind a church, soon makes it clear that he won't escape so easily. As Hack and Deputy Sheriff...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer Billy Bob Holland is convinced of Lucas's innocence but proving it means unearthing the truth from a seething mass of deceit and corruption. A corruption endemic in the way it can be only in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else's business. Billy Bob's relationship with Lucas's family is not an easy one...
4) Heartwood
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Billy Bob tries to live his life like the heartwood, growing from the heart out, but when his friend and neighbour is framed for the theft of $30,000 worth of bail bonds from the local rich dirt Earl Dietrich, things start to turn increasingly murky and the death toll begins to rise.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 16
Language
English
Description
Robicheaux has lived through much inner turmoil and seen too much of man's dark side to believe that there are any surprises left for him in this world. But then the devastation brought by Hurruicane Katrina seems to make a wreck of his sould even as it pummels New Orleans. In the aftermath, two black men are murdered in the ninth ward--and Robicheaux refuses to allow another injustice to pile more misery on the survivors of this deadly storm.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novel volume 1
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Introducing the New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux, this novel begins with the murder of a prostitute, which no one wants him to investigate. Persistence results in his involvement with a drug dealing Mafia, and he uncovers a web of corruption that some would kill to protect.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Creole Belle begins where the last book in the Dave Robicheaux series, The Glass Rainbow, ended. Dave is in a recovery unit in New Orleans, where a Creole girl named Tee Jolie Melton visits him and leaves him an iPod with the country blues song 'Creole Belle' on it. Then she disappears. Dave becomes obsessed with the song and the memory of Tee Jolie and goes in search of her sister, who later turns up inside a block of ice floating in the Gulf. Meanwhile,...
Author
Series
Holland family saga volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post): A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast. It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed...
Author
Series
Hackberry Holland novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The investigation of a DEA informant's death pits Texas border town sheriff Hackberry Holland and his deputy, Pam Tibbs, against Mexican drug dealers, Russian mobsters, and the evil preacher Jack Collins.
Author
Series
Holland family saga volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s"--
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 23
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenaged Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooming young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny...
13) Cadillac jukebox
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
When Aaron Crown is finally imprisoned for the decades-old murder of Ely Dixon, it is to Dave Robicheaux that he proclaims his innocence loudest. Dave isn't keen to get involved, but then a filmmaker seeking to prove Crown's innocence is murdered and the mob accuse Dave of taking a pay-off.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Police detective Dave Robicheaux faces off with the most diabolical villain he has ever faced in the twentieth installment of the Dave Robicheaux series. Sadistic serial killer Asa Surette avoids the death penalty for murders he committed while capital punishment was banned. But when Robicheaux's daughter Alafair writes a series of articles implicating Surrette in other murders which could get him death, he decides to escape prison and make her pay....
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 12
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Three men are present when Amanda Boudreau is raped and murdered and small time hustler Tee Bobby Hulin's prints are found at the crime scene. Dave Robicheaux reckons he's innocent, and Tee Bobby pleads so, then attempts suicide in his holding cell. Why? Tee Bobby is released on bail and soon after there is a second murder. When lawyer Perry LaSalle takes on the defence of Tee Bobby, Dave knows his motives are fuelled by guilt. For Tee Bobby's grandmother...