Tuffatevi nelle profonde atmosfere della Louisiana con una serie che segue un detective tormentato mentre naviga tra le paludi e il lato oscuro della società. Ogni episodio svela misteri complessi, spesso radicati nel violento passato e nel presente corrotto della regione. È un viaggio in un mondo dove i demoni personali si scontrano con le minacce esterne, offrendo un'esplorazione cruda, poetica e profondamente umana della giustizia e della redenzione.
Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruised heart in order to survive
Book #3 from the series: Dave RobicheauxBACK IN THE UNDERWORLD HE TRIED TO LEAVE BEHIND Haunted by the memory of his wife's murder and his father's untimely death, ex-New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux spends his days in a fish-and-tackle business. But when an old friend makes a surprise appearance, Robicheaux finds himself thrust back into the violent world of Mafia goons and wily federal agents. From the Louisiana bayou to Montana's tribal lands, Robicheaux is running from the bottle, a homicide rap, a professional killer and the demons of his past. Rich with fascinating characters and dramatic plot twists, James Lee Burke and his Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux recall the best of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe -- tough, complex and thoroughly entertaining.
Clutching the shards, of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New lberia police force. His partner is dead -- slain during a condemned prisoner's bloodyflight to freedom that left Robicheaux critically wounded...and reawakened the ghost of his haunted, violent past. Now he's trailing a killer into the sordid head of die Big Easy-caught up in the lethal undercurrents of a mob double-cross...confronting his most dangerous enemy: himself
James Lee Burke ist "der Superstar der amerikanischen Kriminalliteratur!" Buchmarkt In einem nur scheinbar verschlafenen Nest in den US-Südstaaten gerät eine zwielichtige Geschwisterschar ins Visier der örtlichen Mafia. Ein Polizist versucht die Mauer des Schweigens zu durchdringen. Er gerät in ein altes, gut abgehangenes Geheimnis um Mord, Wahnsinn, Rache und Schuld, das ihn mit in den Strudel des Verderbens zu ziehen droht ... – Der fünfte Fall des Dave Robicheaux ist so zuverlässig wie stets ein Meisterwerk des modernen Thrillers. So wichtig wie der gut konstruierte Plot ist die eigenartige Louisiana-Atmosphäre, deren schwüle Hitze die Leidenschaften kochen und altes Unrecht reifen lässt, bis die Eiterblase platzt. Anders ausgedrückt: uneingeschränkte Leseempfehlung. "Niemand erweckt Schauplätze so gut zum Leben wie James Lee Burke, und niemand beschreibt emotionale Konflikte so perfekt wie er." Elizabeth George 5. Band der Reihe um den Ermittler Dave Robicheaux
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.
Da bambino, era spaventato dalle storie... Sotto il sale del Golfo del Messico, al largo della costa della Louisiana, si trova un sottomarino nazista sepolto. Il detective Dave Robicheaux, dell'ufficio dello sceriffo di New Ibera, conosce l'esistenza di questo sottomarino sin dall'infanzia, quando era terrorizzato da incubi sugli evil marinai nazisti al largo. Da adolescente, mentre faceva immersioni subacquee, si imbatte nel sottomarino affondato, ma per anni ha tenuto segreto il suo luogo di sepoltura. Ora deve affrontare una realtà terribile. Decenni dopo, un potente attivista ebreo desidera far riemergere il sottomarino, e la conoscenza di Robicheaux lo pone al centro di una lotta spaventosa di desideri contrastanti. Un psicopatico neo-nazista di nome Will Buchalter, che sostiene che l'Olocausto sia una frode, vuole trovare il sottomarino per primo, e non si fermerà davanti a nulla pur di costringere Robicheaux a parlare. James Lee Burke esplora a fondo il cuore oscuro dell'umanità in questo romanzo elettrizzante, una storia di terrore e coraggio in una Louisiana del Sud dove l'orribile e il bello sorgono dallo stesso fertile suolo.
Helping the Fontenot family of sharecroppers from being forced away from their longtime home, detective Dave Robicheaux discovers a link between the eviction and the murder of a New Orleans fixer's girlfriend. Reprint. Tour. PW.
“One of the best novels of the year from one of the very best writers at work today.”—Rocky Mountain News The townspeople of New Iberia, Louisiana, didn’t crucify Megan Flynn’s father. They just didn’t catch whoever pinned him to a barn wall with sixteen-penny nails. Decades later, Megan, now a world-famous photojournalist, has come back to the bayou, looking for cop Dave Robicheaux. It was Dave who found the body of labor leader Jack Flynn. The sight changed the boy, shaped him as a man. And after forty years, Robicheaux is still haunted by the bizarre unsolved slaying. Now Megan’s return has stirred up the ghosts of the long-buried past, igniting a storm of violence that will rip apart lives of blacks and whites in this bayou country. And for a good cop with bad memories, hard desire, and chilling nightmares, the time has come to uncover the truth.
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It is a rainy late-summer's night in New Orleans. Detective Dave Robicheaux is about to confront the man who may have savagely assaulted his friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, a Catholic priest who's always at the centre of controversy. But things are never as they seem and soon Robicheaux is back in New Iberia, probing a car crash that killed three teenage girls. A grief-crazed father and a maniacal, complex assassin are just a few of the characters Robicheaux meets as he is drawn deeper into a web of sordid secrets and escalating violence. A masterful exploration of the troubled side of human nature and the dark corners of the heart, peopled by familiar characters such as P.I. Clete Purcel and Robicheaux's old flame Theodosia LeJeune, LAST CAR TO ELYSIAN FIELDS is vintage Burke - moody, hard-hitting, with his trademark blend of human drama and relentless noir suspense.
Tough, former New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux is back. On a visit to a dying cop whom he once hated, Robicheaux is led towards the solution of the disappearance of a young woman he and his brother once knew--and family secrets he must confront and resolve.
WHEN A NICE YOUNG WOMAN named Trish Klein blows into Louisiana passing hundred-dollar bills in local casinos, Detective Dave Robicheaux senses a storm bearing down on his new life of contentment. Twenty-five years ago, lost in a drunken haze in Florida, Robicheaux was too far gone to save his friend and fellow ’Nam vet Dallas Klein, murdered in cold blood for gambling debts. Now, the arrival of Dallas’s daughter opens a door locked long ago, and extracting her motives points Robicheaux to the suicide of a local "good girl" pulled into a vortex of power, sex, and death. It’s Robicheaux’s most personally painful case—a roller coaster of passion, surprise, and regret—and it may be his deadliest.
In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown , begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. The power grid of the city has been destroyed, New Orleans reduced to the level of a medieval society. There is no law, no order, no sanctuary for the infirm, the helpless, and the innocent. Bodies float in the streets and lie impaled on the branches of flooded trees. In the midst of an apocalyptical nightmare, Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be more dangerous than the criminals looting the city. In a singular style that defies genre, James Lee Burke has created a hauntingly bleak picture of life in New Orleans after Katrina. Filled with complex characters and depictions of people at both their best and worst, The Tin Roof Blowdown is not only an action-packed crime thriller, but a poignant story of courage and sacrifice that critics are already calling Burke's best work.
The latest tale featuring the popular and flawed detective Dave Robicheaux takes him from the bayous of Louisiana's New Iberia Parish to the wild mountains of Montana.
In this gripping new novel, Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to New Iberia, Louisiana, facing the most harrowing case of his career as seven young women are brutally murdered in neighboring Jefferson Davis Parish. While the killings suggest a serial killer, the death of high school honor student Bernadette Latiolais stands out, as she doesn't fit the profile of typical victims. Robicheaux and his friend Clete Purcel confront Herman Stanga, a despised pimp and crack dealer, but when Stanga is found dead after a violent encounter with Purcel, the investigation spirals into chaos, jeopardizing Clete's life and career. Compounding Robicheaux's troubles is his daughter Alafair, who is on leave from Stanford Law to finish her novel. Her relationship with Kermit Abelard, a celebrated novelist from a declining Louisiana family, raises alarms for Robicheaux, especially given Abelard's ties to Robert Weingart, a manipulative ex-convict author. As Alafair seems to drift away, Robicheaux grapples with his own paranoia, only to discover that his instincts about the dangers surrounding her are all too accurate. Set against a backdrop of beauty threatened by dark forces, this novel promises to be a standout in the Robicheaux series.
“America’s best novelist” James Lee Burke returns with another New York Times bestselling entry in the Dave Robicheaux thriller series (The Denver Post). Set against the events of the Gulf Coast oil spill, rife with “the menaces of greed and violence and man-made horror” (The Christian Science Monitor), Creole Belle finds Dave Robicheaux languishing in a New Orleans recovery unit since surviving a bayou shoot-out. The detective’s body is healing; it’s his morphine-addled mind that conjures spectral visions of Tee Jolie Melton, a young woman who in reality has gone missing. An iPod with an old blues song left by his bedside turns Robicheaux into a man obsessed…And as oil companies assign blame after an epic disaster threatens the Gulf’s very existence, Robicheaux unearths connections between tragedies both global and personal—and faces down forces that can corrupt and destroy the best of men.
In New Orleans, powerful mob boss Tony Nemo has a Civil War sword he'd like to
give to Levon Broussard, a popular local author whose books have been adapted
into major Hollywood films. The sword's history can be traced back to
Broussard's ancestors, and Tony figures it belongs to Levon. But Tony's
intentions aren't so pure.
The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the
dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana in this
gripping mystery from modern master (Publishers Weekly) James Lee Burke.
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.
