Robicheaux

Dave Robicheaux Book 21

by James Lee Burke

Simon & Schuster

January 2, 2018

ISBN-10: 1501176846

ISBN-13: 9781501176845

Available in: Hardcover, Audio, e-Book

Robicheaux
by James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke's most beloved character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this gritty, atmospheric mystery set in the towns and backwoods of Louisiana.

DAVE ROBICHEAUX IS A HAUNTED MAN.

Between his recurrent nightmares about Vietnam, his battle with alcoholism, and the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next. Images of ghosts at Spanish Lake live on the edge of his vision.

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 and make sense of the murder, Robicheaux encounters a cast of characters and a resurgence of dark social forces that threaten to destroy all of those whom he loves. What emerges is not only a propulsive and thrilling novel, but a harrowing study of America: this nation's abiding conflict between a sense of past grandeur and a legacy of shame, its easy seduction by demagogues and wealth, and its predilection for violence and revenge. James Lee Burke has returned with one of America's favorite characters, in his most searing, most prescient novel to date.



James Lee Burke's Bio

Born in 1936 in Houston, Texas, James Lee Burke grew up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. Over the years, Burke has worked in the oil field and on a pipeline, taught at several colleges, been a social worker on skid row in Los Angeles, a newspaper reporter in Louisiana, a landman for Sinclair Oil Company, a land surveyor in Colorado, and an employee of the U.S. Forest Service in eastern Kentucky.

James Lee Burke is the author of eighteen previous novels, including Cimarron Rose, Cadillac Jukebox, Burning Angel, and Dixie City Jam, the New York Times bestselling Sunset Limited, Heartwood and his latest Purple Cane Road.

James Lee Burke and his wife split their time between Missoula, Montana and New Iberia Louisiana. They have four children.