(0)James Lee Burke
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"A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from "America's best novelist" (Denver Post), the New York Times-bestselling James Lee Burke. Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the...
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Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood director. Twenty-five years later, when Robicheaux knocks on Cormier's door, it isn't to congratulate him on his Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Robicheaux has discovered...
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"In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with...
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"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 then places Hack's son Ishmael squarely in the cross hairs of a plot to recapture his prize, believed to be the mythic cup of Christ. Along the way, we meet three extraordinary women: Ruby Dansen, the Danish immigrant who is Ishmael's mother and Hackberry's one...
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Detective Dave Robicheaux travels to the mountains of Montana to help his best friend and unearths a larger plot that threatens them both. Oil speculator Weldon Sonnier is the patriarch of a troubled family intimately bound to the CIA, the Mob, and the Klan. Now, the murder of a cop and a bizarre assassination attempt pull Detective Dave Robicheaux into the Sonniers' hellish world of madness, murder, and incest. But Robicheaux has devils of his own...
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Ein Atmosphärisches Meisterwerk über die Abgründe der Menschheit!
Als eine Frau namens Trish Klein in aufgewühltem Zustand in New Iberia auftaucht, stellt Dave Robicheaux fest, dass es sich dabei um die Tochter von Dallas Klein handelt - seinem Freund aus dem Vietnamkrieg, für dessen Tod er sich bis heute schuldig fühlt. Kaum angekommen, schließt Trish zweifelhafte Deals in Casinos ab. Der Verdacht kommt auf, dass sie in Wahrheit einen...
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Manche Erinnerungen - wie die an einen geheimnisvollen Sommer seiner Jugend - verdrängt Dave Robicheaux lieber. Doch das Geständnis eines sterbenden Mannes zwingt ihn dazu, ein lange zurückliegendes Rätsel um das Verschwinden einer Frau endlich aufzuklären. Damals wollte sein Halbbruder Jimmie mit Ida Durbin nach Mexiko durchbrennen, aber am Tag der Flucht verschwand sie plötzlich. Die Suche nach der Wahrheit stürzt Robicheaux in die Intrigen...
9) Winter Light
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A short story from one of the country's most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.
11) Mist
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A short story from one of the country's most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, Jesus Out To Sea.
13) Texas City, 1947
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A short story from one of the country's most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.
14) The Molester
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A short story from one of the country's most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.
15) Water People
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A short story from one of the country's most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.
16) The Village
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A short story from one of the country's most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, Jesus Out to Sea.
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Detective Dave Robicheaux is facing the most painful and dangerous case of his career. A troubled young woman breezes into his hometown of New Iberia, Louisiana. She happens to be the daughter of Robicheaux's onetime best friend -- a friend he witnessed gunned down in a bank robbery, a tragedy that forever changed Robicheaux's life. The twists begin when Trish Klein -- the only offspring of Robicheaux's Vietnam-era buddy -- starts passing marked hundred-dollar...
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Dave Robicheaux novel volume 20
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Police detective Dave Robicheaux faces off with the most diabolical villain he has ever faced in the twentieth installment of the Dave Robicheaux series. A summer getaway in Montana for Dave Robicheaux's family and friends is violently shattered by the arrival of serial killer and prison escapee Asa Surrette. He avoids the death penalty for murders he committed while capital punishment was banned in his home state of Kansas. But when Robicheaux's...