Fiction

Flags on the Bayou James Lee Burke

FLAGS ON THE BAYOU is set in Civil War Louisiana and follows a slave on the run with an abolitionist school teacher. James Lee Burke exhibits his masterful ability to render the landscape through the tree-lined bayous with its cottonmouths to the sunsets on the Mississippi River.
 
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Harbor Lights James Lee Burke

HARBOR LIGHTS is a powerful collection of great fiction set from the Gulf of Mexico to Colorado, with inbetween stops in prisons, saloons and trailor parks across the South. One mesmerizing tale captures a young boy watching a German submarine sink an oil tanker. James Lee Burke is a his best with this giant canvass to...

The New Iberia Blues: A Robicheaux Novel James Lee Burke

NEW IBERIA BLUES is another fine tale in the Dave Robicheaux series, where he must investigate a mysterious murder of a young girl who was crucified near the home of a successful director who Robicheaux knew when he was just another struggling young man on the streets of New Orleans.

 

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Every Cloak Rolled in Blood James Lee Burke

EVERY CLOAK ROLLED IN BLOOD is based on James Lee Burke’s own life experiences. The reader will see how love and family deal with good and evil.
 
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Another Kind of Eden James Lee Burke

ANOTHER KIND OF EDEN is James Lee Burke’s most ambitious work. This page-turning masterpiece finds an aspiring novelist drawn into the investigation of grotesque murders.
 
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Wayfaring Stranger James Lee Burke

WAYFARING STRANGER takes the reader through generations and includes a run-in with the famous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde; escape from certain death in the Battle of the Bulge; a rescue from a German extermination camp and a young couple attempting to seek their fortune against evil forces that lurk in peacetime America...

A Private Cathedral: A Dave Robicheaux Novel James Lee Burke

A PRIVATE CATHEDRAL finds Detective Dave Robicheaux investigating the disappearance of a young couple who happen to hail from competing families in Louisiana's criminal underworld. When his searching brings him too close to the mistress of a mob boss, he and his partner find themselves tracked by a lethal, one-of-a-...

The Hadacol Boogie James Lee Burke

THE HADACOL BOOGIE finds Dave Robicheaux discovering a dead body on his property. His investigation pulls him into terrible violence in the Louisiana Bayou..

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Perfume River Robert Olen Butler

PERFUME RIVER examines family ties with flashbacks from the Viet Nam War. The author's experience as an Army intelligence agent during that period gives him a great advantage in creating what many critics say is best novel yet by the Pulitzer Prize winner.  This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless...

The Empire of Night Robert Olen Butler

THE EMPIRE OF NIGHT is another in the Christopher Marlow Cobb exciting adventures of  a newspaperman turned spy who this time is thrown together with another secret agent - his own mother. Kit Cobb and his mother risk all in Berlin during World War I.

 

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