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Creole Belle finds Dave Robicheaux in a recovery unit in New Orleans, where a Creole girl named Tee Jolie Melton visits him. She 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…
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Back to old wonderful greatness
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Detective Dave Robicheaux, his wife Molly and daughter Alafair are vacationing in Montana. But evil, it seems, has followed them into this wild paradise. Someone is stalking Alafair, and Dave begins to suspect that it's a convicted serial killer she interviewed two years ago - even though he’s supposed to be dead. Is Alafair the target of a depraved serial killer, or has she unwittingly crossed paths with a murderous psychopath closer to home?
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Excellent!
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Excellent!
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Dave Robicheaux has been warned that he's on somebody's hit list, and now the homicide detective is trying to discover just who that is before he ends up dead. Meanwhile he has taken on the murder investigation of a young black girl found dead in the Bayou swamp. Robicheaux uncovers a web of corruption that leads him to a terrifying confrontation with the one horror he fears most of all.
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Dave's inability to let things alone gets him involved with two very powerful criminals, both wanting to protect their sons from the trouble they court, and both with the attitude of the privileged and white. When a young black drug dealer gets on the wrong side of the boys, tensions run high and there are more needless deaths - causing Dave to come to blows with the FBI, the DA's office and a thug who has little regard for any life but his own.
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Gritty insight into life in southern USA
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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 a story of injustice, the murder of a young woman, and a time in Robicheaux's life he has tried to forget. Her name may or may not have been Ida Durbin. It was back in the innocent days of the 1950s when Robicheaux and his brother, Jimmie, met heron a Galveston beach.
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Will Patton is a gem with a JLB story
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Dave Robicheaux had begun to put the pieces of his broken life together again when an old friend turned up on his doorstep, dredging up old memories and new threats.
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Atmospheric, gripping, well paced
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In 1934, 16-year-old Weldon Avery Holland confronts the notorious outlaws Bonnie and Clyde, resulting with Weldon firing a gun, unsure whether it hit its mark. Ten years later Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland barely survives the Battle of the Bulge, in the process saving the lives of Hershel Pine and a young prisoner of war, Rosita Lowenstein - a woman who holds the same romantic power over him as the beautiful Bonnie Parker.
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Wayfaring Stranger
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When Amanda Boudreau is raped and murdered, it's small-time black hustler Tee Bobby Hulin's prints that are found at the crime scene. Tee Bobby pleads innocence, but then attempts suicide in his holding cell. Why? Lawyer Perry LaSalles takes on the defence, but his motives are fuelled by guilt.
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What happened to Will Patton?!
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The Jealous Kind
- By: James Lee Burke
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On its surface life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their sexuality. Against this backdrop Aaron Holland Broussard discovers the poignancy of first love and a world of violence he did not know existed. When Aaron spots the beautiful Valerie Epstein fighting with her boyfriend, he inadvertently challenges the power of the Mob. He also discovers he must find the courage his father had found as an American soldier in the Great War
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Best book I have read this year.
- By teamsmugs on 27-05-17
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The forty-year-old crucifixion of a prominent labor leader named Jack Flynn remains an unsolved atrocity that has never been forgotten in New Iberia, Louisiana. When Flynn's daughter Megan, a photojournalist drawn to controversial subjects, returns to the site of her father's murder, it quickly becomes clear that her family's bloodstained past will not stay buried. Megan gives her old friend Dave Robicheaux a tip about a small-time criminal named Cool Breeze Broussard, scarcely suspecting that the seemingly innocuous case will lead Robicheaux and his partner into the midst of deadly conspiracy. Combining brilliant prose, crackling suspense, and an exquisite sense of character and place, Sunset Limited is a wrenching tale of historic violence and soiled redemption that reveals America's finest novelist at his masterful best.
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Very good, but...
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House of the Rising Sun
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House of the Rising Sun is an epic tale of love, loss, betrayal, vengeance and retribution that follows Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland on his journey to reunite with his estranged son, Ishmael. After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Hackberry escapes the country in possession of a stolen artifact, earning the ire of a bloodthirsty Austrian arms dealer who will do anything to recapture his prize, believed to be the mythic cup of Christ.
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In my humble opinion, not his best
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Rain Gods
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Running from a traumatic and chequered past to become sheriff of a dried-out, broken-down border town in south Texas, Sheriff Hackberry Holland soon finds himself dealing with more than just his own demons after nine dead prostitutes are dug up in the desert. The search for justice pits Holland against hired guns, unscrupulous pimps, drug dealers, and a psychotic killer known as The Preacher.
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Beware the Preacher
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Hack Holland is a product of the South, both old and new. Hard-drinking ex-POW and wealthy, progressive Democrat, he stands in the long shadow cast by his ancestors. When Holland's candidacy for a congressional seat brings him increasingly into conflict with those around him, his almost unwitting involvement with a violent civil rights conflict forces him to reassess his future - and his past....
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We want more Huck!
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The Lost Get-Back Boogie
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Trouble is rising in Montana's Bitterroot Valley and only one man is willing to stop it.... Frank Riordan is waging a one-man campaign to shut down the local pulp mill that is polluting the air and devastating the environment; tensions are growing, and the only man who can help already has troubles of his own. Having served time for accidentally killing a man Iry Paret is making a fresh start on Frank's ranch, where he meets a dynamic and beautiful woman who will test the limits of Iry's loyalty to his friends.
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Goes round and round
- By Martin Goddard on 01-04-15
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Metropolis
- Bernie Gunther, Book 14
- By: Philip Kerr
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Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners - after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that followed - are enjoying their own version of Babylon. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he gets a summons from Bernard Weiss, Chief of Berlin's Criminal Police. He invites Bernie to join KIA - Criminal Inspection A - the supervisory body for all homicide investigation in Kripo.
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Philip Kerr at his absolute best!!
- By John on 25-04-19
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Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. Between his recurrent nightmares, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next. During a murder investigation, Dave Robicheaux discovers he may have committed the homicide he's investigating, one which involved the death of the man who took the life of Dave's beloved wife. As he works to clear his name, Robicheaux encounters a cast of characters and a resurgence of dark social forces that threaten to destroy all of those whom he loves.
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- Elinor Dashwood
- 15-03-18
Not Burke's best, but still very good
This isn't the best James Lee Burke, and I found the ending a bit lame, but even on a bad day, he's a master of his craft. As usual Will Patton reads like a dream, though I do wish he'd look up how to pronounce "misogyny" correctly.
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- Ms. S. J. McReynolds
- Manchester, UK
- 21-01-18
Gripping as always
Will Patton's narration unimpeachable..story compelling but perhaps a little too much overblown philosophising this time.
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- D. Munro
- 09-12-18
Another good one
I have read, or listened to, all of the Robicheaux novels and this is one of the best. I would have given it five stars but for the fact that the plot became a bit implausible, and rushed, towards the end. In every one of the recordings I find that Will Patton’s narration is much better than any of the alternatives and his Clete Purcel voice is particularly convincing. There are many characters in the story and Patton brings each one of them to life in an unmistakable way.
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- Baz Borozitch
- United Kingdom
- 02-09-18
Classic. A return to form
I was unconvinced by Dave and Clete's previous outing but this was perfect. All the dark poetry and beautiful imagery, the flawed good guys, the mixed up bad guys. JLB back to his best.
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- Lisa Crowe
- 19-08-18
Wonderful as always
Interesting story line given current rise of populism! The “Bopsie twins from homocide” do it again.
Burke’s bad guys are so believable, they make your skin crawl. He is a brilliant writer and I’m, for one, very thankful for his genius.
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- Andy
- London, United Kingdom
- 29-06-18
Poetic
Listening to a James Lee Burke book is a real pleasure. The stories are always great you revisit characters that you know and love and in particular you he writes in a manner which has depth and is very poetic and evocative. I can honestly say that for me he is in a league of his own.
This book is the latest in a long line of 5star books. A must read
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- Mark
- Essex
- 14-03-18
The Bobbsey Twins on Top Form
The 21st outing for Dave and Clete and it's a corker with incredibly rich characters and wonderful evocations of times gone by in a lost paradise. Against this lush background are some terrific villains and the spectacularly creepy 'Smiley'. What a character!
Dave clearly feels 'time's winged chariot hurrying near' but I hope he's got enough puff left in him for further adventures as nothing compares to this series for literary crime fiction of the highest order.
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- judith
- Garstang, United Kingdom
- 20-02-18
He's back!
Thrilled to see a new Robicheaux on the block. Usual suspects, either real or imaginary. Greatly relieved by the absence of Cletus' ghastly daughter, and minimal outing of Alafair.
But why...oh , but that's a plot spoiler ......see what you think ;)!
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- Simon
- 08-02-18
Another stunning book from one of the very best
Any Dave Robicheaux novel is a treat, but when you’ve waited some considerable time for one, it’s doubly so. That said, it has to live up to its heritage and I’m very pleased to say this book does that with ease. Will Patton’s narration is as good as it gets and he brings to life JLBs characters like no one else could. Elements of the story are reflective of Dave Robicheaux’s past and how that always seems to collide head on with present, only serving to make life harder for him, as he becomes more determined to unravel the truth. No one paints a picture quite like JLB and as I’m sure I’ve said in the past, you are transported to the world of Dave, Clete, Alafair & co, so much so that you can feel the sun on your skin and the wind in your hair. More than that you experience the conflict in the man as he takes his first sip of bourbon and knows how the night is going to finish up. I know of many another author that should have retired a lead character many books ago, but keep churning out shadows of earlier books, that is not so here, this one only makes you wish for the next. Thank you Mr Burke!
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- Boris Backache
- 25-01-18
James Lee Burke at his best!
I've read all of James Lee Burke novels and for me this rates as one of his best. Second only to Into The Electric Mist With The Confederate Dead, Robicheaux has some beautifully drawn characters, mystical, mythical and realistic, some real warmth and humour along with the usual violence and mayhem that his characters create. It has a great storyline and is beautifully narrated here by Will Patton. Nice one!!