James Lee Burke Books

DIXIE CITY JAM When a Nazi submarine is discovered lying in sixty feet of water off the Louisiana coast, some troubled ghosts are ready to be released. A local businessman is offering Detective Dave Robicheaux big money to bring the wreck to the surface, but he is not the only one after the submarine and its cargo. A new spirit of hatred is abroad, and its embodiment is stalking Robicheaux's wife...BURNING ANGEL When Sonny Marsallas entrusts a mysterious notebook to Dave Robicheaux, a series of violent events is set in train. What did Sonny's girlfriend know that resulted in her murder? What are Sonny's connections with the Mob that finally lead them to send a hitman after Dave? BURNING ANGEL outstrips its crime thriller label to produce a rich, sardonic and terrifying portrayal of contemporary America. PURPLE CANE ROAD Detective Dave Robicheaux embarks on a painful journey to a murky past, when he his told that his mother, Mae, was a hooker and ended her life drowned in a puddle by two cops working for the Mob. Dave learns to confront and accept his mistakes as he tries to track down his mother's killers and bring them to justice.

The narrator, an outsider to the reader's world, offers a unique perspective on a hidden drama that almost led to catastrophe. Eager to share this untold story, they promise insights into events that could have changed everything. The narrative hints at intrigue and suspense, suggesting that the tale is both personal and significant, revealing layers of complexity in a situation that remains largely unknown to the reader.

Dave Robicheaux is on the trail of a serial killer, while trying to protect his daughter from a boyfriend with a dark side, in the eighteenth novel in James Lee Burke's classic series.

After the devastating events recounted in THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN, Dave Robicheaux and his ex-partner in Homicide, Clete Purcel, head for the mountains and trout streams of Montana for some much-needed healing. However, while Montana might seem an unspoilt paradise peopled by men and women from an earlier, more innocent time in American history, Dave and Clete soon find that there are plenty of serpents in the garden too. The deaths of a couple of hikers suggest a perverted serial killer may be at work, while an escaped jailbird and his former tormentor are locked in a savage dance of revenge that is ultimately connected to the fortunes of a wealthy oil family hiding a terrible secret . . .

New York Times bestseller and 'one of the finest crime writer's America has ever produced' James Lee Burke returns with his latest masterpiece, the story of a father and son separated by war.

Trouble is rising in Montana's Bitterroot Valley and only one man is willing to stop it . . .

Back in print at last, James Lee Burke's suspense-packed sixth novel in his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series delivers a heart-pounding bayou manhunt--and features "one of the colest, earthiest heroes in thrilerdom" ("Entertainment Weekly "). When Hollywood invades New Iberia Parish to film a Civil War epic, restless specters waiting in the shadows for Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux are reawakened--ghosts of a history best left undisturbed. Hunting a serial killer preying on the lawless young, Robicheaux comes face-to-face with the elusive guardians of his darkest torments-- who hold the key to his ultimate salvation . . . or a final, fatal downfall.

Krimi. Robicheaux is recovering in a New Orleans hospital from a near-fatal bullet wound. Immobilized and heavily medicated by morphine, he is visited there by a beautiful Creole woman named Tee Jolie Melton. After she's gone, his fond, hazy remembrances of her are rekindled by one song, "Creole Belle" on the iPod that she left behind. Now obsessed by the song and thoughts of her, he goes in search of her. He finds instead the frozen corpse of her sister floating at sea. As he grapples with that mystery, an oil rig explodes on the Gulf threatening the cherished environs of the bayous. Robicheaux then swings into action, leading the charge against the destruction of both the land and the people he has sworn to protect

A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast.

America's most acclaimed crime writer and winner of the 1998 CWA/Macallan Gold Dagger returns to Louisiana with his great detective, Dave Robicheaux schovat popis