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Series
Dave Robicheaux novel volume 23
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux volume 20
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
548 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A summer getaway in Montana for Dave Robicheaux's family and friends is violently shattered by the arrival of serial killer and prison escapee Asa Surrette.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux volume Book 21
Language
English
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"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 irreconcilable memory to the next. Images of ghosts pepper his reality. Robicheaux's only beacon remains serving as a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana. It's in that capacity that Robicheaux crosses paths with powerful mob boss, Tony Nemo. Tony has a Civil War sword he'd...
Author
Series
Robicheaux volume 18
Language
English
Description
Returning to his Louisiana hometown to investigate a murder, detective Dave Robicheaux finds his skills pushed to their limits when his best friend is accused and his daughter becomes involved in shady business dealings.
Author
Series
Robicheaux volume 14
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
After hearing an old schoolmate's deathbed confession, Dave Robicheaux begins a search for a prostitute he met decades earlier who had ties to the mob, an endeavor that proves dangerous in the wake of a series of murders and the sudden appearance of a troubled young woman.
6) Creole belle
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novel volume 19
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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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,...
Author
Series
Robicheaux volume 9
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author James Lee Burke returns to delight audiobook listeners who crave fast-paced crime fiction with Cadillac Jukebox. This thunderous and introspective audiobook-the ninth book of the award-winning series-pits the earthy and robust Dave Robicheaux against forces of law and power far beyond his control. When a racially-motivated murder nearly three decades old churns back to the surface, Robicheaux is confronted by mob bosses, corrupt...
Author
Series
Robicheaux volume 12
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
349p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
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
Robicheaux volume 8
Publisher
Hyperion
Language
English
Description
Defending an African American farm family from local mobsters who want their land, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux travels from his native New Orleans to Central America in pursuit of a notorious gambler and hit man
Author
Series
Robicheaux volume 17
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Robicheaux volume 13
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
335p. 25cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Robicheaux volume 16
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Robicheaux volume 15
Language
English
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Description
New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux finds his peaceful life shattered by the appearance of a woman who is passing stolen money and the suicide of another woman who may be the daughter of Dave's long-time friend.
Author
Series
A Dave Robicheaux novel volume 22
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...
Author
Series
Robicheaux volume 11
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
341p. 25cm.
Language
English