Author
James Lee Burke
9 award wins, 11 nominations across 14 books.
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A Stained White Radiance
352 pages
Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux finds himself entangled with childhood friends with a violent famly history.
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Black Cherry Blues
Published 1990-12-01 · 342 pages
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Cimarron Rose
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Dixie City Jam
Published 1994 · 402 pages
From two-time Edgar Award–winner and New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a thrilling novel—now available in ebook—that pits Dave Robicheaux against the worst opponent he’s encountered yet.
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Feast Day of Fools
Published 2011-09-27 · 526 pages
Interviewing an alcoholic Native American who witnessed a murder along the Texas-Mexico border, Sheriff Hack Holland and his deputy, Sam Tibbs, recognize the work of serial killer Preacher Jack Collins in an investigation that is assisted by the enigmatic Anton Ling.
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Flags on the Bayou
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Heartwood
341 pages
In Cimmaron Rose, longtime fans of the Dave Robicheaux series found that the struggles of Texas defense attorney Billy Bob Holland show Burke at his best in exploring classic American themes--the sometimes subtle, often violent strains between the haves and the have-nots; the collision of past and present; the inequities in the criminal justice system.
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Last Car to Elysian Fields
Published 2004-10-01 · 400 pages
For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him. So to return there—as he does in Last Car to Elysian Fields—means visiting old ghosts, exposing old wounds, opening himself up to new, yet familiar, dangers.
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Pegasus Descending
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Rain Gods
Published 2009-07-14 · 563 pages
ELDERLY TEXAS LAWYER-TURNED-BORDER-SHERIFF HACKBERRY HOLLAND UNCOVERS THE MASS GRAVE OF NINE ILLEGAL ASIAN ALIENS. IRAQI VETERAN PETE FLORES REPORTED THE MURDERS TO AUTHORITIES AND THEN FLED WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND VIKKI. DEPUTY SHERIFF PAM TIBBS, THE FBI, ICE, AND THE KILLERS ALL SEARCH FOR THE COUPLE. VIOLENCE AND STRONG LANGUAGE. 2009.
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Sunset Limited
387 pages
In a land soaked with sin, Dave Robicheaux is dueling with killers, ghosts, and a woman's revenge....
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The Glass Rainbow
Published 2010-07-13
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The Tin Roof Blowdown
Published 2007-09-17 · 379 pages
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Wayfaring Stranger
Published 2014-07-15 · 276 pages
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