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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"[A] story of a father and son separated by war and circumstance-- and whose encounter with the legendary Holy Grail will change their lives forever. From its opening scene in revolutionary Mexico to the Battle of the Marne in 1918, and on to the bordellos and saloons of San Antonio during the reign of the Hole in the Wall Gang, [this book] is an epic tale of love, loss, betrayal, vengeance, and retribution that follows Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland...
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"From "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post): 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. It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies....
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Hackberry Holland novels volume 3
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"James Lee Burke returns to the Texas border town of his bestseller Rain Gods, where a serial killer presumed dead is very much alive ... and where sheriff Hackberry Holland, now a widower, fights for survival--his own, and of the citizens he's sworn to protect. When alcoholic ex-boxer Danny Boy Lorca witnesses a man tortured to death in the desert, Hackberry's investigation leads him to Anton Ling, a mysterious Chinese woman known for sheltering...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 11
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Dave's search for his mother's killers leads him to the darker places in his past, and solving this case teaches him what it means to be his mother's son.
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 10
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“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...
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...
7) Rain gods
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"In a heat-cracked border town, the bodies of nine illegal aliens - women and girls, killed execution-style - are unearthed in a shallow grave. Haunted by a past he can't shake and his own private demons, Hack attempts to untangle the grisly case, which may lead to more bloodshed. Damaged young Iraq vet Pete Flores, who saw too much before fleeing the crime scene, and his girlfriend, Vikki Gaddis, are running for their lives. Sorting through the lowlifes...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 12
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The grisly murder of two young women lead police to the door of Tee Bobby Hulin, a popular Cajun blues singer. However, Detective Dave Robicheaux isn't so sure. Hulin's profile doesn't fit the crimes. Robicheaux is intent on finding the true killer, but his addiction to painkillers leads him astray and into the underbelly of crime, corruption, and brutality. To catch the murderer, Robicheaux must first conquer his own demons, along with the growing...
10) Cimarron rose
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Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland has many secrets in his dark past. Among them is his illegitimate son, Lucas Smothers. When Lucas is arrested for murdering his girlfriend, Holland knows that he has no choice but to try to save the boy, regardless of what it may mean to his own-or the boy's -reputation. The boy is a country musician, abused by his stepfather and haunted by the possibility that he did, indeed, commit the murder in a drunken blackout....
12) Half of paradise
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Discover the debut novel of James Lee Burke, before the creation of his now-famous Cajun detective, Dave Robicheaux , as he weaves together the struggles of three very different men. Toussaint Boudreaux, a black docker in New Orleans, puts up with his co-workers' racism because he has to, and moonlights as a prize-fighter in the hope of a better life-but the only break he gets lands him in penal servitude. J.P. Winfield, a hick with a...
13) Dixie City jam
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For years, Det. Dave Robicheaux of the New Iberia Sheriff's office kept the secret of the watery resting place of the Nazi submarine. Now decades later, when a powerful Jewish activist and a neo-Nazi psychopath named Will Buchalter both want to find the sub first, Robicheaux's knowledge puts him at the center of a terrifying struggle of conflicting desires.
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Iry Paret's done this time -- two years for manslaughter in Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary. Now the war vet and blues singer is headed to Montana, where he hopes to live clean working on a ranch owned by the father of his prison pal, Buddy Riordan. In prison, Iry tinkered with a song -- "The Lost Get-Back Boogie"--That never came out quite right. Now, the Riordan family's problems hand him a new kind of trouble, with some tragic consequences....
15) Two for Texas
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In the early 1800s, nineteen-year-old Son Holland is falsely accused of stealing a purse and condemned to ten years in a brutal Louisiana prison camp. Determined not to spend the next decade behind bars, Son teams up with a fellow inmate and a beautiful Native American woman, and the trio flees. Killing a guard in the process, however, ensures they'll face a punishment far worse than the chain gang if they're caught. They realize their best chance...
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In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his lyrical writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast is a versatile setting for Burke's stories, which cover the scope of the human experience -- from love and sex to domestic abuse to war, death, and friendship.
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From one of the country's most acclaimed and popular novelists comes a selection of a dozen short stories set in James Lee Burke's most beloved milieu, the Deep South. James Lee Burke has become a dedicated voice for the people of Louisiana, especially post-Katrina. This collection demonstrates the depth of his feeling for the state that has always been such a study in contrasts: rural and urban, old and new, wild and civilized. In this moving collection...
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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...
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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...