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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux's job turns personal when his friend Clete Purcel becomes the prime suspect in the murder of Herman Stanga, a pimp and drug dealer they questioned about the murders of seven young women in Jefferson Davis County, and his daughter, an aspiring novelist, falls in love with fellow writer Kermit Abelard, a man with dangerous connections.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Sheriff's investigator Dave Robicheaux, having grown up with the lingering sadness of his mother's disappearance when he was a boy, is stunned into action when a New Orleans lowlife tells him his mother was murdered thirty years earlier by two cops who are still on the job.
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Series
Language
English
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Dave Robicheaux, the Louisiana cop who's easily one of the most complex and compelling protagonists in mystery fiction, confronts his own demons as well as a brutal adversary who might be the devil himself in this dark thriller. Robicheaux doesn't believe Tee Bobby Hulin, a drug addicted musical genius, has murdered a prostitute and a teenager. Burke looks to the lower depths to find his villain, and the creature that emerges, as if from some primordial...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novel volume 19
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
This book 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,...
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Series
Dave Robicheaux novel volume 22
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood director. Twenty-five years later, when Robicheaux knocks on Cormier's door, it isn't to congratulate him on his Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Robicheaux has discovered...
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Series
Dave Robicheaux novel volume 23
Language
English
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"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...
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