Book Preview THE black woman’s name was Sarie, and when she crashed out the door of the cabin at the end of the slave quarters into the fading winter light, her lower belly bursting with the child that had already broken her water, the aftermath of the ice storm and the sheer desolate sweep of … Read more
Book Preview Detective Dave Robicheaux returns in another adventure. Only this time, he travels from New Iberia Parish to the wilds of Montana. Swan Peak is the sequel to Black Cherry Blues, the third title in the Robicheaux series. In it, Clete Purcel has to confront ghosts from his past, namely the fact he poured … Read more
Book Preview Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter … Read more
Book Preview By the Same Author DAVE ROBICHEAUX NOVELS Crusader’s Cross Last Car to Elysian Fields Jolie Blon’s Bounce Purple Cane Road Sunset Limited Cadillac Jukebox Burning Angel Dixie City Jam In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead A Stained White Radiance A Morning for Flamingos Black Cherry Blues Heaven’s Prisoners The Neon Rain BILLY … Read more
Book Preview A Dave Robicheaux Novel Crusader’s Cross by JAMES LEE BURKE For Linda and Roger Grainger acknowledgments I would like to thank George Schiro and the other staff members at the Acadiana Crime Lab in New Iberia, Louisiana, and also Jim Hutchison, Judi Hoffman, Annalivia Harris, Bahne … Read more
Book Preview Last Car to Elysian Fields By James Lee Burke Synopsis: Following his superb historical novel White Doves Morning, America’s most acclaimed crime writer winner of the CWA Gold Dagger and twice winner of the Edgar Award returns to Louisiana and Dave Robicheaux. James Lee Burke is in top form … Read more
Book Preview Scanned & Semi-proofed by Cozette JAMES LEE BURKE PURPLE CANE ROAD From Edgar Award-winner James Lee Burke comes this emotional powerhouse of a novel…in which everyman hero Dave Robicheaux confronts the secrets of his long-forgotten past in a shattering tale of revenge, murder, and a mother’s haunting legacy. . … Read more
Book Preview Contents ONE | TWO | THREE | FOUR | FIVE | SIX | SEVEN | EIGHT | NINE | TEN | ELEVEN | TWELVE | THIRTEEN | FOURTEEN | FIFTEEN | SIXTEEN | SEVENTEEN | EIGHTEEN | NINETEEN | TWENTY | TWENTY-ONE | TWENTY-TWO | TWENTY-THREE | TWENTY-FOUR | TWENTY-FIVE | TWENTY-SIX | … Read more
Book Preview AARON CRown should not have come back into our lives. After all, he had never really been one of us, anyway, had he? His family, shiftless timber people, had come from north Louisiana, and when they arrived in Iberia Parish, they brought their ways with them, occasionally stealing livestock along river bottoms, poaching … Read more
Book Preview Burning Angel by James Lee Burke FOR Rollie and Loretta McIntosh Commending myself to the God of the oppressed, I bowed my head upon my fettered hands, and wept bitterly. -From Twelve Years a Slave, an autobiographical account by Solomon Northup Chapter 1 GIACANO FAMILY … Read more
Book Preview Contents chapter one | chapter two | chapter three | chapter four | chapter five | chapter six | chapter seven | chapter eight | chapter nine | chapter ten | chapter eleven | chapter twelve | chapter thirteen | chapter fourteen | chapter fifteen | chapter sixteen | chapter seventeen | chapter … Read more
Book Preview “No one captures Louisiana culture as well as James Lee Burke. . . it is also possible that no one writes better detective novels.” “No one captures Louisiana culture as well as James Lee Burke. . . it is also possible that no one writes better detective novels.” Washington Post Book World … Read more
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Book Preview We parked the car in front of the parish jail and listened to the rain beat on the roof. The sky was black, the windows fogged with humidity, and white veins of lightning pulsated in the bank of thunderheads out on the Gulf. “Tante Lemon’s going to be waiting for you,” Lester Benoit, … Read more
Book Preview Black Cherry Blues By James Lee Burke v1.0 Initial release v1.1 Misc formatting, fixed misc ocr errors, fixed broken paragraphs, separated joined paragraphs Synopsis: A first class detective adventure, tough and suspenseful … I’ve not read anything so good since Raymond Chandler set down Philip Marlowe … Read more
Book Preview For my agent, Philip Spitzer, a prizefighter who hung in there for the full fifteen, and those wonderful friends down in Louisiana to whom I owe an enormous debt of gratitude: John Easterly, Martha Lacy Hall, and Michael Pinkston For my agent, Philip Spitzer, a prizefighter who hung in there for the full … Read more
Book Preview The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary. The anti-capital-punishment … Read more