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Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Mystery Dave Robicheaux returns in an adventure as timely as real life: the fight against crime, and the fight for life in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In the waning days of summer 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that...

Haunting suspense and captivating villains, the hallmark of James Lee Burke’s bestselling novels of evil and redemption, are brilliantly evoked in his new Billy Bob Holland opus, the follow-up to the popular and critically acclaimed Bitterroot. “James Lee Burke tells a story in a style all...

Dave Robicheaux is back in a dangerous mystery that involves stolen money, gritty casinos, and a beautiful girl with connections to his past. When a nice young woman named Trish Klein blows into Louisiana, passing hundred-dollar bills in local casinos, detective Dave Robicheaux senses a storm...

Sheriff Dave Robicheaux returns to New Orleans to investigate the beating of a controversial Catholic priest and murder of three teenage girls in this intense, atmospheric entry in the New York Times bestselling series. For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the...

Detective Dave Robicheaux travels to the mountains of Montana to help his best friend and unearths a larger plot that threatens them both. Oil speculator Weldon Sonnier is the patriarch of a troubled family intimately bound to the CIA, the Mob, and the Klan. Now, the murder of a cop and a...

Dave Robicheaux is back in this powerful New York Times bestseller that takes him into the underbelly of New Iberia’s mafia to solve the brutal murder of two teenage girls. When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, New Iberia police detective Dave Robicheaux senses that the most likely suspect...

Critically acclaimed and bestselling crime writer James Lee Burke returns to Louisiana where his ever-popular hero, Dave Robicheaux, sleuths his way through a hotbed of sin and uncertainty. For Dave Robicheaux, life in Louisiana is filled with haunting memories of the past—images from Vietnam...

Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass on to the son. But what was his mother's legacy? Dead to him since his youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Robicheaux's mind. He's lived with the fact that he would...

From the New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes another brilliant Dave Robicheaux novel—now available in ebook—featuring the Louisiana detective in a race to solve a murder before more blood is shed. The Fontenot family has lived as sharecroppers on Bertrand land for as long...

General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented by the fear that history would pass him by, who was plagued by personal debts, and who lived much of his life separated from his family.

Die Warnung kommt aus der Todeszelle. "Passen Sie auf", sagt kurz vor seiner Exekution ein Mafia-Killer dem Polizisten Dave Robicheaux von der Mordkommission in New Orleans, "die Kolumbianer wollen Ihren Kopf." Und prompt muss Robicheaux wieder an das tote schwarze Mädchen denken, das er jüngst aus einem Tümpel gezogen hat.

James Lee Burke’s most beloved character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this New York Times bestselling mystery set in the towns and backwoods of Louisiana: an “enthralling yet grim novel that…will captivate, start to finish” (Publishers Weekly). Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. From the...

Auf den Hinweis eines anonymen Anrufers hin, gräbt Sheriff Hackberry Holland hinter einer verlassenen Kirche die Leichen von neun Frauen aus, notdürftig mit einem Bulldozer plattgewalzt. Es handelt sich dem Anschein nach um illegale Einwanderer aus Asien, die in Texas nahe der mexikanischen Grenze als Prostituierte arbeiteten. Bei der Suche nach dem Anrufer gerät Holland mit Isaac Clawson von der Einwanderungs- und Zollfahndungsbehörde ICE aneinander. Nach dem Mord an seiner Tochter ist er auf seinem eigenen Rachefeldzug.

Dave Robicheaux investigates the disappearance of a young Creole woman, while an oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico threatens to destroy the cherished beauty of the Louisiana bayous in this gripping thriller. Set against the events of the Gulf Coast oil spill, rife with “the menaces of...

James Lee Burke’s second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou as he seeks a quieter life. Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective’s badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty...

Tsunamien Katrina har ramt det sydlige Louisiana og New Orleans med fuld hammer. Med større kraft end den bombe, der faldt over Hiroshima. Kriminalbetjent Dave Robicheaux holder normalt til i New Iberia, i omegnen af New Orleans, men de sidste sommerdage i 2005 bliver han rykket tilbage, hvor han kom fra, til New Orleans. Det er ikke nogen nostalgisk hjemkomst, der venter ham. Befolkningen har evakueret sig selv, myndighederne er sat skakmat eller er fraværende.

Edgar-palkitun Burken suosittu ja kiitelty Dave Robicheaux -sarjan jatko-osa. Vaikutusvaltaisen Sonnierin perheen menneisyys on synkkä kuin Louisianan jokisuiston yö. Murhayritys ja poliisin kuolema vetävät Robicheauxin mukaan perheen hulluuden, murhien ja insestin verkkoon.

Etsivä Dave Robicheaux taistelee jälleen hyvän puolella pahaa vastaan hikisessä ja väkivaltaisessa Louisianassa, kun menneisyys palaa viheliäisesti häiritsemään nykyisyyttä. Neljäkymmentä vuotta sitten tapahtunut ammattiyhdistysmies Jack Flynnin ristiinnaulitseminen jäi aikanaan selvittämättä. Nyt Flynnin tytär Megan palaa New Iberiaan, Lousianaan, ja on selvää, ettei hänen perheensä verinen menneisyys voi enää jäädä peittoon.

Louisialainen ex-poliisi Dave Robicheaux kohtaa omat demoninsa ja brutaalin vastustajan tässä synkässä trillerissä. Robicheaux joutuu selvittämään kahta murhaa, jotka eivät näytä liittyvän toisiinsa. Molemmista syytetään kuitenkin samaa miestä, lahjakasta blues-muusikkoa. Robicheaux uskoo muusikon olevan viaton. Asian todistaminen käy vaikeaksi, kun vastassa on lähes yliluonnollisen paha mies.

Lentokone putoaa mereen. Ex-kyttä ja ex-alkoholisti Dave Robicheaux onnistuu pelastamaan ainoan henkiin jääneen. Poliisisukeltajien saapuessa paikalle huomataan, että yksi ruumiista on kadonnut. Robicheaux alkaa tutkia tapausta. Hän kietoutuu takaisin unohtamaansa rikoksen maailmaan, jossa tuntuu olevan liikaakin houkutuksia.