James Lee Burke, Author Little Brown and Company $17.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-316-11699-2
Burke pits a land-hungry oil company against a Blackfeet Indian reservation in a stunning novel that takes detective fiction into new imaginative realms. His Cajun sleuth, Dave Robicheaux, an ex-New Orleans cop featured in two previous novels,...
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James Lee Burke, Simon & Schuster, $25.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4391-2829-9
MWA Grand Master Burke offers everything his readers expect—brilliant prose, prosaic situations that suddenly become mystic experiences, and a complex plot that repeatedly plumbs the depths of human depravity and the heights of nobility—in his...
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James Lee Burke, Author Hyperion Books $7.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7868-8918-1
PW gave a starred review to this story of revenge, ambition and blackmail, the ninth Dave Robicheaux mystery. (Aug.)
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James Lee Burke, Author Avon Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-72047-7
As the murder of a local cop draws him into the painful conflicts of a bayou family, sadistic villains and interior demons plague Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux in this satisfying novel of suspense. (May)
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James Lee Burke, Author Avon Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-72121-4
This is the fifth mystery featuring Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux. (July)
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James Lee Burke, Author Hyperion Books $7.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7868-8904-4
Continuing the Dave Robichaux series, Burke's mystery concerns present-day tensions springing from age-old racial injustices. (Aug.)
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James Lee Burke, Author Louisiana State University Press $0 (145p) ISBN 978-0-8071-1273-1
Burke brings the reader inside the minds and emotions of his characters, in stories that strike to the heart. They each concern the search for a reason, a purpose behind the interminable battle between good and evil. ""Uncle Sidney and the Mexicans''
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James Lee Burke, Author Louisiana State University Press $19.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-8071-1334-9
This wonderful novel about a Korean War veteran released in the '60s from a Louisiana prison farm where he served a term for manslaughter is neither roman tic nor cynical in its realism. Loner Iry Paret, a country-and-western musician, has survived...
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James Lee Burke, Author Henry Holt & Company $0 (248p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0053-5
Burke's sixth novel pits New Orleans homicide detective Dave Robichaux against the mob, the contras, the Feds and just about all the other cops. The trouble starts when Robichaux insists on investigating the murder of a young prostitute and...
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James Lee Burke, Author Henry Holt & Company $8.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0541-7
During the 1960s, a Korean War veteran is released from a Louisiana prison farm after serving a term formanslaughter. While visiting his acid-dropping buddy, he battles between adjusting to straight life and doing what might send him back to jail. A
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James Lee Burke, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0484-2
To read a Burke novel is to enter a timeless, parallel universe of violent emotions and lush, brooding landscapes, where class and racial distinctions and family histories mold society. This is the stunningly talented Burke's 21st book and his...
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James Lee Burke, Author Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0665-0
First met in Burke's excellent mystery, The Neon Rain, Dave Robicheaux is a driven mandriven by his constant battle with alcoholism; by memories of his past as a detective on the New Orleans police force; by his need for order; by his obsession with
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James Lee Burke, Author Little Brown and Company $18.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-316-11721-0
In a muddy, weed-filled coulee, Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux begs an escaped convict for his life and is left more troubled by his lack of courage than by his gunshot wounds. Burke ( Half of Paradise ) proceeds to balance the resulting self-do
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James Lee Burke, Author Doubleday Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-48842-6
After stepping into stand-alone territory with Cimmaron Rose (1997), Burke choreographs a masterful return to the lush and brooding world of volatile New Iberia Sheriff's Deputy Dave Robicheaux (Cadillac Jukebox, 1996). This tale's strength lies in...
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James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4311-4
In Edgar-winner Burke's outstanding third novel featuring smalltown Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland (after Rain Gods), Hackberry joins a motley crew of killers, idealists, psychos, mobsters, and Feds in the search for Noie Barnum, a disgruntled...
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James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (544p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4813-3
MWA Grand Master Burke continues to raise the bar for himself, and the reader, as shown by his lyrical, insightful 19th Dave Robicheaux novel (after 2010’s The Glass Rainbow). While the New Iberia, La., deputy sheriff is recovering in a New Orleans...
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James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4767-1076-1
Bestseller Burke’s 20th Dave Robicheaux novel (after 2012’s Creole Belle), a powerful meditation on the nature—and smell—of evil, finds the Louisiana sheriff’s detective on vacation in Montana with family and friends. There they are hounded and...
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James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4767-1079-2
Early in this epic American saga from MWA Grand Master Burke, Weldon Holland, the grandson of lawman and series character Hackberry Holland, has a chance run-in with Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in Texas, shortly before the notorious bank robbers...
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James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-5011-0710-8
In Edgar-winner Burke’s stunning follow-up to 2014’s Wayfaring Stranger, former Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland sets off to look for his estranged son, Ishmael, a U.S. Army captain, in a journey spanning over two years. In 1916, after a botched...
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James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5011-0720-7
Raging teenage hormones, gangster violence, class warfare, and a pink Cadillac stuffed with cash and gold bars set up Burke’s latest novel, a mystery set in Houston, Tex., in 1952. Burke has a hit with this dark, atmospheric story of teenagers...
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James Lee Burke, Author Bantam Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-48844-0
HAfter the relatively lightweight Sunset Limited (1998), Cajun cop Dave Robicheaux returns in a powerhouse of a thriller that shows Burke writing near the peak of his form. Robicheaux faces his most personal case yet, when a pimp puts him on the...
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James Lee Burke, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0483-5
A two-time Edgar Award winner, Burke touches on a variety of hot-button issues sure to thrill his fans in his first book since last year's Purple Cane Road. The author's popular protagonist, Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland, travels to big...
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James Lee Burke, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4471-8
Following the publication of his 11th Dave Robicheaux thriller, bestselling Burke (Bitterroot; Purple Cane Road) keeps the action in Louisiana, turning back the clock to the Civil War. Central to this brooding saga are hotheaded young idealist...
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James Lee Burke, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4542-5
Homicide detective Dave Robicheaux is pitted against a handsome, urbane war hero of a bad guy instead of the typical obscenely grotesque villain in this latest installment of Burke's stellar series, set in New Iberia, La. It's a shift in...
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James Lee Burke, Author . Simon & Schuster $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4543-2
In this top-notch fourth novel in Burke's series featuring ex–Texas Ranger attorney Billy Bob Holland, Billy Bob has moved his family and practice to the pastoral city of Missoula, Mont., the setting of his last adventure (Bitterroot
,...
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James Lee Burke, Author . Simon & Schuster $25.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7719-8
Superb writing and a throbbing pace lift two-time Edgar-winner Burke's powerful, many-layered 14th Dave Robicheaux novel (after 2003's Last Car to Elysian Fields
), which involves venal and arrogant members of a wealthy family that can trace
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James Lee Burke, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (356p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7772-3
Drawing on classical antecedents, bestseller Burke peoples his 15th Dave Robicheaux novel (after 2004's Crusader's Cross
) with his usual assortment of near mythic characters, demonstrating how our everyday lives are beset with age-old,...
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James Lee Burke, Author . Simon & Schuster $14 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4856-0
The 11 previously published stories in this strong collection showcase Burke's handling of familiar themes and places, minus the trappings that accompany his popular Dave Robicheaux or Bill Bob Holland novels. The inevitable marriage of war and...
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James Lee Burke, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (373p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4848-5
In Burke's meticulously textured 16th Dave Robicheaux novel (after 2006's Pegasus Descending
), Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath provide the backdrop for an account of sin and redemption in New Orleans. When Detective Robicheaux's...
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James Lee Burke, Author . Simon & Schuster $25.95 (402p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4852-2
Dave Robicheaux and his former partner, Clete Purcel, find trouble in western Montana in bestseller Burke's fine 17th novel to feature the New Iberia, La., sheriff's deputy (after Tin Roof Blowdown
). When two security men for Texas oil...
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James Lee Burke, Author . Simon & Schuster $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4391-2824-4
MWA Grandmaster Burke spins a tale replete with colorful prose and epic confrontations in his second novel to feature smalltown Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland (after Lay Down My Sword and Shield
). An anonymous phone call leads Holland, a Korean...
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James Lee Burke, Author , read by Will Patton. Audioworks $49.99 (
, unabridged, 13 CDs, 15 hrs., $49.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-7435-8243-8
, unabridged, 13 CDs, 15 hrs., $49.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-7435-8243-8
Burke returns with a masterfully told, high-octane thriller in which a young Iraqi war veteran and his girlfriend find themselves on the run after a series of brutal murders in the Deep South. Fortunately, Sheriff Hack Holland is on the case and...
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James Lee Burke, Author Doubleday $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-48843-3
Burke's newer series hero, Billy Bob Holland (Cimarron Rose, 1997), could have been separated at birth from Burke's long-time protagonist, ex-New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux. Although Holland is a lawyer in the rolling hill country north of Austin,...
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James Lee Burke, Author, Cortese, Author Hyperion $22.45 (340p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6082-1
In his latest absorbing and violent adventure, moody Louisiana deputy Dave Robichaux confronts plaited evils: ages-old injustices based on race and class; the legacies suffered by modern-day mercenaries for their sins in Vietnam and central America;
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James Lee Burke, Author, Daniel Steinberg, Author Hyperion $22.45 (367p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6019-7
After his dreamy sojourn into Civil War history in In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead , former New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux comes up against the residue of Nazism in his action-packed, somewhat rambling seventh adventure. When Batist, who
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James Lee Burke, Author, R.M. Ed. Dexter, Author Hyperion $22.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6175-0
A ripeness of villains, the familiar good guys and some who travel the territory in between comprise the cast of the rich ninth Dave Robicheaux adventure, following Burning Angel. Nearly 30 years after the shooting death of a prominent black civil...
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James Lee Burke, Author, Mark Chimsky, Editor Little Brown and Company $23.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-316-11602-2
Picking up the theme of his bestselling Connections and utilizing cross-chapter margin references that imitate computer hypertext, Burke investigates the dynamic interplay of scientific discovery, technological innovation and social change in a...
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James Lee Burke, Author, James Lee Burke, Author Hyperion Books $29.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-56282-980-3
Sadistic villains and interior demons plague Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux as the murder of a local cop draws him into the painful conflicts of the Sonnier family, with whom he grew up near the bayous. Weldon Sonnier, an oil speculator...
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James Lee Burke, Author, Will Patton, Read by , read by Will Patton. Simon & Schuster Audio $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-7187-6
Detective Dave Robicheaux is pitted against all types, from an oil tycoon's deformed brother to a sexually indiscreet minister. With these colorful characters running rampant, narrator Will Patton never stumbles in his delivery or...
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James Lee Burke, Author, Will Patton, Read by , read by Will Patton. Simon & Schuster Audio $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-6751-0
The pain, dismay and anger brought on by the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina explodes from the pages of this new Dave Robicheaux novel. For nearly a quarter of a century, Burke has used this series, despite their dark subject matter, to show...
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James Lee Burke, Author, Will Patton, Read by Simon & Schuster Audio $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-8241-4
Burke returns with a masterfully told, high-octane thriller in which a young Iraqi war veteran and his girlfriend find themselves on the run after a series of brutal murders in the Deep South. Fortunately, Sheriff Hack Holland is on the case and...
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James Lee Burke, Author, Will Patton, Read by , read by Will Patton. Simon & Schuster Audio $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4423-0370-6
Hackberry Holland—a Texas attorney, Korean War vet, and candidate for Congress—is haunted by memories of his days as a POW and driven to finding relief at the bottom of endless bottles of alcohol and in public displays of potentially...
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James Lee Burke, Author, Will Patton, Read by , read by Tom Stechschulte. Simon & Schuster Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-3720-9
Narrator Stechschulte does an excellent job giving voice to the many eccentric characters in Burke's fourth novel starring former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland, last heard from in Bitterroot
(2001). Billy Bob and his private investigator wife,
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James Lee Burke, read by Will Patton. S&S Audio, , unabridged, 12 CDs, 14.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-8570-2
Actor Patton uses a mellifluous Southwestern accent to add aural gravitas to Burke’s WWI-era-set novel, with its trademark mix of nature’s beauty and man’s brutality. Alcoholic, mule-stubborn, prone-to-violence former Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland...
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James Lee Burke, read by Will Patton. Simon & Schuster Audio, unabridged, 18 CDs, 19 hrs., $49.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-6147-8
Will Patton has read several Burke books before, and that experience shows. In this audio edition of the author’s 20th crime novel featuring Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux, Patton boasts a confidence that can only come from experience....
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James Lee Burke, Author, Lucht, Author Hyperion Books $32.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-56282-882-0
In the sixth Dave Robicheaux mystery (following A Stained White Radiance ), Burke explores new narrative territory with qualified success, leading his Cajun detective into a series of dreamlike encounters with a troop of Confederate soldiers under...
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James Lee Burke, Author, Robert E. Ornstein, With Putnam Adult $27.95 (348p) ISBN 978-0-399-14088-4
Prolific psychologist Ornstein and historian Burke, best known for his PBS-TV series Connections, have written an ambitious, entertaining, not always convincing survey of the interaction of technology, culture, history and the human mind. Early...
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James Lee Burke, Author, Mark Hammer, Read by , read by Mark Hammer. Simon & Schuster Audio $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-3331-7
Since Burke's last outing (Jolie Blon's Bounce
), hapless Louisiana lawman Dave Robicheaux has lost his wife to lupus and his bayou home has burned to the ground. Grieving and rootless, he takes on the troubles of others—namely an...
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James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-5011-7684-5
Burke (Light of the World) once again features Dave Robicheaux—detective, veteran, widower, father, alcoholic—in this enthralling yet grim novel of crime, hate, and tragedy. Robicheaux may be at home in New Iberia, La., but he’s not safe from...
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James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-1-5011-7687-6
In Edgar winner Burke’s masterly 22nd novel featuring Iberia Parish, La., detective Dave Robicheaux (after 2018’s Robicheaux), Hollywood director Desmond Cormier, whom Robicheaux knew 25 years earlier as a young man on the streets of New Orleans...
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James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-1-9821-5168-3
A centuries-long feud between two warring criminal families might be coming to an end in MWA Grand Master Burke’s superb 23rd novel featuring New Iberia, La., cop Dave Robicheaux (after 2019’s New Iberia Blues), set loosely sometime before 9/11....
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James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-1-9821-5171-3
It’s 1962 in bestseller MWA Grand Master Burke’s captivating sequel to 2016’s The Jealous Kind, and Aaron Holland Broussard, a drifting aspiring novelist, hops off a boxcar near Denver and finds work on a large farm. After the son of a local...
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James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-1-9821-9659-2
At the start of this stunning supernaturally tinged entry in MWA Grand Master Burke’s long-running Holland family saga (after 2021’s Another Kind of Eden), a teenage boy spray paints a swastika on the barn of octogenarian author Aaron Holland...
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James Lee Burke, read by Will Patton. S&S Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 14.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-5082-4431-8
Voice actor Patton does not disappoint in his reading of Burke’s 21st novel featuring Dave Robicheaux, the deputy sheriff of New Iberia, La. Dave is coming to grips with his wife’s death in a car crash. When the driver responsible for the crash is...
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James Lee Burke. Atlantic Monthly, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6096-6
Burke (Every Cloak Rolled in Blood), best-known for his Edgar-winning Dave Robicheaux mystery series, proves his versatility as a storyteller in this textured collection. The title story revolves around James Broussard, a middle-aged oil and gas...
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