James Lee Burke
Dubbed "America's best novelist" by the Denver Post, New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke has also won multiple Edgar Awards. In this 20th Dave Robicheaux novel, Dave's daughter Alafair writes several articles that pin additional crimes on a convicted serial killer. So when the demented murderer escapes, he heads straight for Montana—to crash the Robicheaux family's summer vacation.
Compared to Louisiana, Robicheaux thought Montana would be...
5) Creole belle
Creole Belle provides ample evidence why so many critics, fans, and fellow authors consider James Lee Burke to be the best in the business. Convalescing in New Orleans, troubled detective Dave Robicheaux is visited by Tee Jolie Melton, who leaves him an iPod containing a single tune: ''Creole Belle.'' Obsessed with the song, Dave is caught in a confluence of events when Tee Jolie's sister is found dead and an oilwell blowout threatens the bayou.
...When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, New Iberia police detective Dave Robicheaux senses that the most likely suspect, Tee Bobby Hulin, is not the actual killer. Though a drug addict and general neer-do-well, Hulin just doesn't fit the profile for this kind...
1861. Two young Southerners, friends despite their differing political views and backgrounds, enlist in the 18th Louisiana regiment of the Confederate Army: Robert Perry, wealthy and privileged, and irreverent Willie Burke, the son of Irish immigrants, face the trials of battle and find redemption...
9) Bitterroot
Set in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life, as well as to xenophobes dedicated to establishing a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia, Burke's novel features Billy Bob Holland, former Texas Ranger and now a Texas-based lawyer, who has come to Big Sky Country for some...
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 means visiting old ghosts, exposing old wounds, opening himself...
Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to New Iberia to solve a series of grisly murders. But when his best friend is accused of murder and his daughter gets involved with some shady business, Robicheaux will have to muster every ounce of guts, wit, and investigative chops he has to solve the case.
New York Times best-selling author and Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke delivers unparalleled suspense in his atmospheric novels. In Feast Day of Fools, 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. "This is one of Burke's biggest novels, in terms of narrative design, thematic richness,
...Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. From the acts he committed in Vietnam, to his battles with alcoholism, to the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one...
For Dave Robicheaux, life in Louisiana is filled with haunting memories of the past—images from Vietnam, the violent streets of New Orleans, and his own troubled youth. In Crusader's Cross, a deathbed confession from an old schoolmate resurrects...
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 bizarre assassination attempt pull Detective Dave Robicheaux into the Sonniers' hellish world of madness, murder, and incest. But Robicheaux has devils...
19) Sunset Limited
The forty-year-old crucifixion of a prominent labor leader named Jack Flynn remains an unsolved atrocity...
20) Burning Angel
The Fontenot family has lived as sharecroppers on Bertrand land for as long as anyone can remember. So why are they now being forced from their homes? And what does the murder of Della Landry—the...