Author: jamesleeburke
After finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana’s oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld and show each other no mercy. Yet their youngest heirs, Johnny Shondell and … Shondell and Isolde Balangie, rock and roll-musician teenagers with magical voices, have fallen in love and run away after Isolde was given as a sex slave to Johnny’s uncle. As he seeks to uncover why, Detective Dave Robicheaux gets too close…
A New York Times bestseller: Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux is drawn into the dangerous world of his old friend, director Desmond Cormier, when a woman is found crucified near Cormier’s vast estate. From “a great American novelist whose work… is unsurpassed” (Michael Connelly).
A New York Times bestseller penned in “heaven-storming prose” (Kirkus Reviews): Haunted Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux struggles to prove that he didn’t murder the man responsible for his wife’s death. From an Edgar Award–winning master called “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post).
A New York Times bestseller from “a great American novelist” (Michael Connelly) and “gorgeous prose stylist” (Stephen King): In 1950s Houston, high school junior Aaron Broussard woos Valerie Epstein away from her abusive boyfriend — setting a course towards danger, violence, and betrayal.
From “a writer to be remembered” (USA Today): Decades after a grotesque unsolved murder, a Louisiana cop confronts its explosive legacy in this suspenseful New York Times bestseller. “Splendidly atmospheric… with dialogue so sharp you can shave with it” (People).
A New York Times bestseller: When Dave Robicheaux learns new details about his mother’s murder, he embarks on a hunt to bring her justice at long last. “No other living writer has been more influential on the contemporary crime novel than James Lee Burke” (Michael Connelly).
Recently paroled from prison, Iry Paret becomes drawn into a tragic conflict involving an ex-convict and their neighbors in this page-turning thriller from New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke. Iry Paret’s done his time–two years for manslaughter in Louisiana’s Angola State Penitentiary. Now the war vet and blues singer is headed to Montana, where he hopes to live clean working on … to live clean working on a ranch owned by the father of his prison pal, Buddy Riordan. In prison, Iry tinkered with a song–“The Lost Get-Back Boogie”–that never came out quite right. Now, the Riordan family’s…