The Dave Robicheaux series By James Lee Burke The Neon Rain [1987] wounded...and reawakened the ghost of his haunted, Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought violent past. Now he's trailing a killer into the sordid too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers head of die Big Easy-caught up in the lethal and hustlers, with police brass, and with undercurrents of a mob double-cross...confronting his the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, most dangerous enemy: himself. Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New A Stained White Radiance [1992] Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and Caught up in the family drama involving the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes his childhood friends, the Sonniers, Cajun involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is sleuth Dave Robicheaux discovers that found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords the family may be involved with the and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a powerful Bobby Earl, a Klansman-turned- subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his politician. own bruised heart in order to survive. In the Electric Mist With Confederate Heaven’s Prisoners [1988] Dead [1993] Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned Haunted by the reemergence of a forty- in his detective's badge, is winning his year-old unsolved murder, detective Dave battle against booze, and has left New Robicheaux must also contend with a Orleans with his wife for the tranquil spate of serial killings of prostitutes and beauty of Louisiana's bayous. But a plane local dissension about the movie crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into company that is shooting in town. his life -- and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception, and homegrown crime. Suddenly Dixie City Jam [1994] Robicheaux is confronting Bubba Rocque, a brutal hood They're out there, under the salt - the he's known since childhood; Rocque's hungry Cajun bodies of German seamen who used to lie wife; and a federal agent with more guts than sense. In in wait at the mouth of the Mississippi for a backwater world where a swagger and a gun go unescorted American tankers sailing from further than the law, Robicheaux and those he loves are the oil refineries of Baton Rouge out into caught on a tide of violence far bigger than them all... the Gulf of Mexico. As a child, Dave Robicheaux had been haunted by the sailors' images; Black Cherry Blues [1989] then, as a young college student, he'd accidentally Edgar Award Winner – Best Novel discovered one of their subs while scuba diving. Years Ex-cop Dave Robicheaux: His wife had later, in a New Orleans populated by desperate hustlers been murdered ... Now they're after his and millennium-watchers of all stripes, Robicheaux, a little girl...From the Louisiana bayou to detective with the New Iberia sheriff's office, finds Montana's tribal lands, he’s running front himself and his family at serious risk, stalked for his the bottle, a homicide rap, a professional knowledge of a watery burial ground by a mysterious killer ... and the demons of his past. man named Will Buchalter - a man who believes that the Holocaust was one big hoax A Morning for Flamingos [1990] Clutching the shards, of his shattered life, Burning Angel [1995] Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has Detective Dave Robicheaux becomes rejoined the New lberia police force. His entangled in the affairs of the Fontenot partner is dead -- slain during a family, descendants of sharecroppers condemned prisoner's bloody flight to whose matriarch helped raise Dave as a freedom that left Robicheaux critically child. They are in danger of losing the land they've lived on for more than a century. As Dave of Dave's mind. He's lived with the fact that he would travels from his native New Orleans to Central America, never really know what happened to the woman who trying to discover who wants the land so badly, he finds left him to the devices of his whiskey-driven father. But himself in increasing peril from a lethal, rag tag alliance deep down, he still feels the loss of his mother and of local mobsters and a hired assassin with a shady past. knows the infinite series of disappointments in her life could not have come to a good end. While helping out Cadillac Jukebox [1995] an old friend, Dave is stunned when a pimp looks at him Dave Robicheaux, a detective in the New sideways and asks him if he is Mae Guillory's boy, the Iberia, Louisiana, Sheriff's Office, becomes whore a bunch of cops murdered 30 years ago. The embroiled in a new investigation into the pimp goes on to insinuate that the cops who dumped twenty-eight-year-old murder of a famed her body in the bayou were on the take and continue to NAACP leader, when the man convicted thrive in the New Orleans area. Dave's search for his of the crime asks him to prove his mother's killers leads him to the darker places in his innocence. past and solving this case teaches him what it means to be his mother's son. Sunset Limited [1998] Dagger Award Winner – Best Novel Jolie Blon’s Bounce [2002] Detective Dave Robicheaux re-turns to Dagger Award Nominee center stage in an incendiary new novel Edgar Award Nominee by James Lee Burke. Macavity Award Nominee When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, the A gripping tale of racial violence, class victim of a particularly savage rape, New warfare, and the sometimes cruel legacy Iberia, Louisiana, police detective Dave of Southern history, Sunset Limited is a stunning Robicheaux senses from the very start of the achievement, confirming Burke's place as one of investigation that the most likely suspect, Tee Bobby America's premier stylists as well as master storytellers. Hulin, is not the actual killer. Though a drug addict and "Not since Raymond Chandler has anyone so thoroughly general ne'er-do-well, Hulin just doesn't fit the profile reinvented the crime and mystery genre," said novelist for this kind of brutal crime. But when another murder Jim Harrison, and in Sunset Limited Burke continues to occurs -- this victim a drugged-out prostitute who carve out new territory. As always in the fiction of happens to be the daughter of one of the local mafia James Lee Burke, the past impinges on the present: The bigwigs -- all clues once again point to Tee Bobby Hulin, forty-year-old crucifixion of a prominent labor leader and the cries for arrest become too loud to ignore. The named Jack Flynn remains an unsolved atrocity that has dead girl's father, however, prefers to take matters in never been forgotten in New Iberia, Louisiana. When his own hands and sets out to find -- and punish -- the Flynn's daughter, Megan, a photojournalist drawn to killer himself. But before Robicheaux can solve these controversial subjects, returns to the site of her father's crimes and bring the killer or killers to justice, he is murder, it quickly becomes clear that her family's forced to battle his own inner demons, including a bloodstained past will not stay buried. Megan gives her painkiller addiction, a habit that begins as the result of a old friend Dave Robicheaux a tip about a small-time brutal and humiliating beating he suffers at the hands of criminal named Cool Breeze Broussard, scarcely the mysterious and diabolical character known as suspecting that the seemingly innocuous case will lead Legion. A fixture in the area for years, Legion was once Robicheaux and his partner, Helen Soileau, into the the overseer on a local sugarcane plantation and now midst of a deadly conspiracy. As New Orleans mobsters gets by doing odd jobs. In temperament, however, he's and mysterious hit men converge on his parish, still the malicious and malevolent bully he always was, a Robicheaux soon finds that all the clues point back in man defined by evil and seemingly possessed with time to the tortured death of Jack Flynn. supernatural skills of survival. Added to the mix, and on the good guy side of the balance sheet, is Clete Purcel, a Purple Cane Road [2000] longtime buddy of Robicheaux's and a confirmed Dave Robicheaux has spent his life boozer and womanizer. Clete comes to New Iberia for a confronting the age-old adage that the visit and is quickly drawn into the struggle between the sins of the father pass onto the son. But various forces of evil in the town, including Jimmy Dean what has his mother's legacy left him? Styles, a black man intent on maintaining his empire of Dead to him since youth, Mae Guillory has corruption; Joe Zeroski, a trailer park Mafioso with been shuttered away in the deep recesses palatial aspirations -- and of course, Legion Guidry, the devil incarnate, in whom Robicheaux finds himself sordid secrets and escalating violence that sets him up facing a challenge and an enemy unlike any he has ever for a confrontation that echoes down the lonely known. And soon, what began as a duel of wits has corridors of his own unresolved past. turned into a dance of death. Crusader’s Cross [2005] Last Car to Elysian Fields [2003] For detective Dave Robicheaux, memories For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy -- including those of a strange and violent passage home. New Orleans, and the summer from his youth -- are best left memories of his life in the Big Easy, will alone.