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Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel  - James Lee BURKE
Published by USA Simon & Schuster  8 July 2008  
Price £39.99
ISBN 9781416548522 Signed by Author     First Edition     First Printing    

Hardcover, US Simon & Schuster, First Edition, First Printing, Signed by author to the title page.

James Lee Burke's new novel, Swan Peak, finds Detective Robicheaux far from his New Iberia roots, attempting to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montana. He, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcell have retreated to stay at an old friend's ranch, hoping to spend their days fishing and enjoying their distance from the harsh, gritty landscape of Louisiana post-Katrina.

But the serenity is soon shattered when two college students are found brutally murdered in the hills behind where the Robicheaux and Purcell are staying. They quickly find themselves involved in a twisted and dangerous mystery involving a wealthy, vicious oil tycoon, his deformed brother and beautiful wife, a sexually deviant minister, an escaped con and former country music star, and a vigilante Texas gunbull out for blood. At the center of the storm is Clete, who cannot shake the feeling that he is being haunted by the ghosts from his past -- namely Sally Dio, the mob boss he'd sabotaged and killed years before.

In this expertly drawn, gripping story, Burke deftly weaves intricate, engaging plotlines and original, compelling characters with his uniquely graceful prose. He transcends genre yet again in the latest thrilling addition to his New York Times bestselling series.




Sunset Limited: A Dave Robicheaux Novel  - James Lee BURKE
Published by USA Doubleday  1 June 1998  
Special Price £29.99
ISBN 9780385488426 Signed by Author     First Edition     First Printing    

Hardcover, US Doubleday, First Edition, First Printing, Signed by author to the title page.

Detective Dave Robicheaux re-turns to center stage in an incendiary new novel by James Lee Burke.

A gripping tale of racial violence, class warfare, and the sometimes cruel legacy of Southern history, Sunset Limited is a stunning achievement, confirming Burke's place as one of America's premier stylists as well as master storytellers. "Not since Raymond Chandler has anyone so thoroughly reinvented the crime and mystery genre," said novelist Jim Harrison, and in Sunset Limited Burke continues to carve out new territory.

As always in the fiction of James Lee Burke, the past impinges on the present: The forty-year-old crucifixion of a prominent labour leader named Jack Flynn remains an unsolved atrocity that has never been forgotten in New Iberia, Louisiana. When Flynn's daughter, Megan, a photojournalist drawn to controversial subjects, returns to the site of her father's murder, it quickly becomes clear that her family's bloodstained past will not stay buried. Megan gives her old friend Dave Robicheaux a tip about a small-time criminal named Cool Breeze Broussard, scarcely suspecting that the seemingly innocuous case will lead Robicheaux and his partner, Helen Soileau, into the midst of a deadly conspiracy. As New Orleans mobsters and mysterious hit men converge on his parish, Robicheaux soon finds that all the clues point back in time to the tortured death of Jack Flynn.

Combining brilliant prose, crackling suspense, and an exquisite sense of character and place, Sunset Limited is a wrenching tale of historic violence and soiled redemption that reveals one of America's finest novelists at his masterful best.




Pegasus Descending: A Dave Robicheaux Novel  - James Lee BURKE
Published by USA Simon & Schuster  18 July 2006  
Price £45.00
ISBN 9780743277723 Signed by Author     First Edition     First Printing    

Hardcover, US Simon & Schuster, First Edition, First Printing, Signed by author to the title page.

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.

In Pegasus Descending, James Lee Burke again explores psyches as much as evidence, and tries to make sense of human behaviour as well as of his characters' crimes. Richly atmospheric, frightening in its sudden violence, and replete with the sort of puzzles only the best crime fiction creates, Burke's latest novel is an unforgettable roller coaster of passion, surprise, and regret.

Once again, Burke proves why he is the virtual poet laureate of southern Louisiana, and why his novels, especially those featuring Dave Robicheaux, stand as brilliant literature and entertainment for our time.




Last Car to Elysian Fields: A Dave Robicheaux Novel  - James Lee BURKE
Published by USA Simon & Schuster  30 September 2003  
Price £49.99
ISBN 9780743245425 Signed by Author     First Edition     First Printing    

Hardcover, US Simon & Schuster, First Edition, First Printing, Signed and Dated by author to the title page.

For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him. So to return there -- as he does in Last Car to Elysian Fields -- means visiting old ghosts, exposing old wounds, opening himself up to new, yet familiar, dangers.

When Robicheaux, now a police officer based in the somewhat quieter Louisiana town of New Iberia, learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, a Catholic priest always at the center of controversy, has been the victim of a particularly brutal assault, he knows he has to return to New Orleans to investigate, if only unofficially. What he doesn't realize is that in doing so he is inviting into his life -- and into the lives of those around him -- an ancestral evil that could destroy them all.

A masterful exploration of the troubled side of human nature and the darkest corners of the heart, and filled with the kinds of unforgettable characters that are the hallmarks of his novels, Last Car to Elysian Fields is James Lee Burke in top form in the kind of lush, atmospheric thriller that his fans have come to expect from the master of crime fiction.




Jolie Blon's Bounce: A Dave Robicheaux Novel  - James Lee BURKE
Published by USA Simon & Schuster  4 June 2002  
Price £45.00
ISBN 9780743204842 Signed by Author     First Edition     First Printing    

Hardcover, US Simon & Schuster, First Edition, First Printing, Signed by author to the title page.

James Lee Burke, acclaimed by critics as "America's best novelist," "the Graham Greene of the bayou," and "a poet of the mystery novel," returns with his popular character, Dave Robicheaux, in a novel rich with atmosphere, ripe with menace, and filled with the kind of crackling dialogue that has made Burke a consistent New York Times best-selling author.

When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, the victim of a particularly savage rape, New Iberia, Louisiana, police detective Dave Robicheaux senses from the very start of the investigation that the most likely suspect, Tee Bobby Hulin, is not the actual killer. Though a drug addict and general ne'er-do-well, Hulin just doesn't fit the profile for this kind of brutal crime. But when another murder occurs -- this victim a drugged-out prostitute who happens to be the daughter of one of the local mafia bigwigs -- all clues once again point to Tee Bobby Hulin, and the cries for arrest become too loud to ignore. The dead girl's father, however, prefers to take matters in his own hands and sets out to find -- and punish -- the killer himself.

Gothic, dense, brutal, touching, and always compelling, Jolie Blon's Bounce is classic storytelling from a writer who has been dubbed "the Faulkner of crime fiction."




In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead: A Dave Robicheaux Novel  - James Lee BURKE
Published by USA Hyperion NY   April 1993  
Special Price £29.99
ISBN 9781562828820 Signed by Author     First Edition     First Printing    

Hardcover, US Hyperion, First Edition, First Printing, Signed by author to the title page.

Hollywood has sent its emissaries to New Iberia Parish to film a Civil War epic in the steaming mists of the Louisiana bayou -- reawakening the ghosts of a past best left undisturbed. The restless specters wait in the shadows for cajun cop Dave Robicheaux -- as he hunts a serial butcher who is preying on the less-then-innocent young. For these spirits are the guardians of Robicheaux's darkest torments -- and they hold the key to his ultimate salvation...or a final, fatal downfall.




Heaven's Prisoners: A Dave Robicheaux Novel  - James Lee BURKE
Published by USA Henry Holt & Co   April 1988  
Price £99.99
ISBN Heaven's Prisoners Signed by Author     First Edition     First Printing    

Hardcover, USA First Edition, First Printing, Signed by author to the title page.

The boards are clean and have no signs of deterioration. The pages are clean and bright, no tears, nicks or creases, no previous owner inscriptions. The book is tight and square. The dust jacket has mild shelf-wear and slight yellowing to tops of inside flaps otherwise Fine and bright with original $17.95 cover price. No Remainder marks.

The second book, following ‘The Neon Rain’ in the Dave Robicheaux series.

Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective's badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana's bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life -- and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception, and home-grown crime. Suddenly Robicheaux is confronting Bubba Rocque, a brutal hood he's known since childhood; Rocque's hungry Cajun wife; and a federal agent with more guts than sense. In a backwater world where a swagger and a gun go further than the law, Robicheaux and those he loves are caught on a tide of violence far bigger than them all....




Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel  - James Lee BURKE
Published by USA Simon & Schuster  12 July 2005  
Price £45.00
ISBN 9780743277198 Signed by Author     First Edition     First Printing    

Hardcover, US Simon & Schuster, First Edition, First Printing, Signed by author to the title page.

For detective Dave Robicheaux, memories -- including those of a strange and violent summer from his youth -- are best left alone. But a dying man's confession forces Robicheaux to resurrect a decades-old mystery with a missing woman at its heart. Her name may or may not have been Ida Durbin, and Robicheaux's half brother, Jimmie, paid a brutal price for entering her world. Now the truth will plunge Robicheaux into the manipulations of New Orleans' wealthiest family, into a complex love affair of his own, and into hot pursuit of a killer expanding his territory beyond the Big Easy at a frightening pace.




Cadillac Jukebox: A Dave Robicheaux Novel  - James Lee BURKE
Published by USA Hyperion NY   July 1996  
Special Price £24.99
ISBN 9780786889181 Signed by Author     First Edition     First Printing    

Hardcover, US Hyperion, First Editionn, First Printing, Signed by author to the title page.

When former Klansman and piney-woods outcast Aaron Crown is finally imprisoned for a decades-old murder, it is to Detective Dave Robicheaux that he proclaims his innocence loudest. Crown seems to be a lightning rod for every kind of trouble that the state of Louisiana can unearth. A documentary film writer seeking to prove Crown's innocence is found murdered; a button man for the New Orleans mob accuses Robicheaux of taking a pay-off to ignore Crown.

But it is when Buford LaRose -- scion of an old Southern family and author of a book on the Crown case -- is elected governor that Dave Robicheaux's involvement with Aaron Crown deepens to a level he can barely fathom. And it is Buford's social-climbing wife, Karyn, with whom Robicheaux had an affair years before, who proves to be his most poisonous adversary.

Filled with thrilling adventure, lightning-paced action, and street-smart realism, Cadillac Jukebox is a brilliant addition to Burke's standout Dave Robicheaux series.




Burning Angel: A Dave Robicheaux Novel  - James Lee BURKE
Published by USA Hyperion NY   August 1995  
Price £39.99
ISBN 9780786860821 Signed by Author     First Edition     First Printing    

Hardcover, US Hyperion, First Edition, First Printing, Signed by author to the title page.

Defending an African-American farm family from local mobsters who want their land, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux travels from his native New Orleans to Central America in pursuit of a notorious gambler and hit man.




Black Cherry Blues: A Dave Robicheaux Novel  - James Lee BURKE
Published by USA Little Brown    August 1989  
Special Price £35.00
ISBN 9780316116992 Signed by Author     First Edition     First Printing    

Hardcover, USA First Edition, First Printing, Signed by author to the title page.

The boards are clean and have no signs of deterioration, there is a tiny ding to right corner front board. The pages are clean and bright, no tears, nicks or creases, no previous owner inscriptions. The book is tight and square. The Fine dust jacket is bright with original $17.95 cover price. No Remainder marks.

The Third book in the Dave Robicheaux series.

Personal tragedy has left Dave Robicheaux close to the edge. Battling against his old addiction to alcohol and haunted nightly by vivid dreams and visitations, Dave finds his only tranquillity at home with his young ward Alafair. But even this fragile peace is shattered by the arrival of Dixie Lee Pugh who brings with him a brutal trail of murder and violence. Robicheaux reluctantly agrees to help out his old friend but becomes more involved than he bargained for when he finds himself suspect Number One in the series of bloody killings. Forced to leave his home, Robicheaux's precarious existence reaches breaking point when Alafair's life is threatened.




A Morning for Flamingos: A Dave Robicheaux Novel  - James Lee BURKE
Published by USA Little Brown    October 1990  
Special Price £24.00
ISBN 9780316117210 Signed by Author     First Edition     First Printing    

Hardcover, USA First Edition, First Printing, Signed to the Half Title Page by author.

The boards are clean and have no signs of deterioration. The pages are clean and bright, no tears, nicks or creases, no previous owner inscriptions. The book is tight and square. The dust jacket is Fine and bright with original $18.95 cover price. No Remainder marks.

The Fourth book in the Dave Robicheaux series

Clutching the shards of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New Iberia police force. While transporting two death-row prisoners, Dave is wounded and his partner killed -- reopening the doors to a past he would have rather kept closed. Now he's trailing a killer into the heart of the Big Easy's underworld. Increasingly possessed by his undercover role, Robicheaux surprisingly forms an intimate bond with a Mafia don. Embroiled in a world of drug dealers, prostitutes and double-crosses, Robicheaux must still confront his most dangerous enemy -- himself. Rich with fascinating characters and dramatic plot twists, the audio debut of James Lee Burke and his Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux recalls the best of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe -- tough, complex and thoroughly entertaining.


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