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New Orleans: het werkterrein van inspecteur Dave Robicheaux, van de pulserende jazz in de Franse wijk tot in de moerassen waar drugsdealers hun weg weten te vinden.Hij heeft al heel wat gevechten achter de rug: in Vietnam, met moordenaars en prostituees, met zijn superieuren bij de politie, met de fies. Als Robicheaux het lijk van een jonge zwarte prostituee uit een kreek vist, raakt hij verzeild in een levensgevaarlijk wespennest. Hij krijgt het aan de stok met een Nicaraguaanse bende, er wordt een prijs op zijn hoofd gezet, en hij dreigt ten onder te gaan in een poel van corruptie die New Orleans teistert als een tropische slagregen. Voor de rechercheur met Cajun-bloed in de aderen gaat de uitweg over lijken.Neon glamour is een intelligent en intrigerend geschreven crime over hebzucht, wraak en verleiding.

Dave Robicheaux vindt vier lichamen in een neergestort vliegtuig. De autoriteiten melden echter slechts drie slachtoffers…Dave Robicheaux – Vietnam-veteraan, ex-alcoholist en voormalig detective – doet zijn best zijn criminele en gewelddadige verleden van zich af te schudden als beheerder van een verhuurbedrijf van boten.Dan stort voor zijn ogen een vliegtuigje neer. Robicheaux kan een meisje redden, de overige vier inzittenden overleven de crash niet.Toch melden de autoriteiten dat er slechts drie mensen zijn omgekomen.Wie was de vierde man en waarom wordt zijn identiteit verborgen gehouden? Wie plaatste een bom in het vliegtuig? Het detective-instinct van Robicheaux dwingt hem nader op de zaak in te gaan.Er zijn echter mensen die trachten Robicheaux ven zijn onderzoek af te houden. Maar hij is reeds zo ver in de zaak betrokken dat niets en niemand hem er meer van kan afhouden. Dan worden twee huurmoordenaars op hem afgestuurd. Door hen belandt hij in een gruwelijk web van moord, verraad en bedrog. Robicheaux ontdekt dat hij niemand kan vertrouwen behalve een ex-vriendin, de prostituee Robin...“Spannend en overtuigend… Burke’s proza heeft heel wat meer te bieden dan wat men gewoonlijk in een thriller aantreft...” – Chicago Tribune

The sixth Dave Robicheaux novel from SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author James Lee Burke.

Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass onto the son. But what has his mother's legacy left him? Dead to him since youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Dave's mind. He's lived with the fact that he would never really know what happened to the woman who left him to the devices of his whiskey-driven father. But deep down, he still feels the loss of his mother and knows the infinite series of disappointments in her life could not have come to a good end. While helping out an old friend, Dave is stunned when a pimp looks at him sideways and asks him if he is Mae Guillory's boy, the whore a bunch of cops murdered 30 years ago. The pimp goes on to insinuate that the cops who dumped her body in the bayou were on the take and continue to thrive in the New Orleans area. 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. Purple Cane Road has the dimensions of a classic-passion, murder, and nearly heartbreaking poignancy-wrapped in a wonderfully executed plot that surprises from start to finish.

Since winning the Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues in 1989, James Lee Burke has enthralled an increasing number of fans with books that transport the reader to the dangerous streets of New Orleans. Here, Cajun sleuth Dave Robicheaux finds himself entangled with the Sonnier family, childhood friends whose lives have been unalterably shaped by abusive parents.

The filming of a Civil War movie forces Dave Robicheaux to confront demons that stand in the way of his salvation. 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 up close and personal with the elusive guardians of his darkest torments—who hold the key to his ultimate salvation…or a final, fatal downfall. In this “entertaining, satisfying, thought-provoking” (The Baltimore Sun) Dave Robicheaux mystery, James Lee Burke explores new narrative territory with qualified success, leading his Cajun detective into a series of dreamlike encounters with a troop of Confederate soldiers under General John Bell Hood.

After finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana's oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin.The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld and show each other no mercy. Yet their youngest heirs, Johnny Shondell and Isolde Balangie, rock and roll-musician teenagers with magical voices, have fallen in love and run away after Isolde was given as a sex slave to Johnny's uncle. As he seeks to uncover why, Detective Dave Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde's mother and the mistress of her father, a venomous New Orleans mafioso whose jealousy has no bounds. In retribution, he hires a mysterious assassin to go after Robicheaux and his longtime partner, Clete Purcel. This hitman is unlike any the ';Bobbsey Twins from Homicide' have ever faced. He has the ability to induce horrifying hallucinations and travels on a menacing ghost ship that materializes without warning. In order to defeat him and rescue Johnny and Isolde, Robicheaux will have to overcome the demons that have tormented him throughout his adult lifealcoholism, specters from combat in Vietnam, and painful memories of women to whom he opened his heart only to see killed. A Private Cathedral, James Lee Burke's fortieth book, is his most powerful tale, one that will captivate readersmixing crime, romance, mythology, horror, and science fiction to produce a thrilling story about the all-consuming, all-conquering power of love.

The third highly acclaimed novel in the Dave Robicheaux series, and winner of the Edgar award.

The 7th Dave Robicheaux novel from Sunday Times bestselling author James Lee Burke

New edition of award-winner James Lee Burke's powerful crime novel set against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina and its devastating effects on New Orleans.

A mesmerising Dave Robicheaux novel from one of American crime fiction's greats.

America's most acclaimed crime writer returns to Louisiana and one of the best-loved detectives in fiction, Dave Robicheaux.

The 11th Dave Robicheaux novel from bestseller James Lee Burke.

The second Dave Robicheaux novel from the award-winning crime writer.

The 8th Dave Robicheaux novel from SUNDAY TIMES bestselling and award-winning author James Lee Burke.

A novel in the Dave Robicheaux series, acclaimed as 'one of the wonders of American crime fiction' (MAIL ON SUNDAY)

The fifth gripping novel in the highly acclaimed Dave Robicheaux series.

James Lee Burke's legendary detective Dave Robicheaux returns to try to save his daughter from a sadistic killer.

The tenth Robicheaux mystery, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award.

America's most acclaimed crime writer and winner of the 1998 CWA/Macallan Gold Dagger returns to Louisiana with his great detective, Dave Robicheaux

The outstanding first book in the ever-popular Dave Robicheaux series.

'No argument: James Lee Burke is among the finest of all contemporary American novelists' DAILY MAIL

A superb Dave Robicheaux mystery from the multi award-winning crime writer.

One of the greatest American detectives is back! Detective Dave Robicheaux is facing his toughest case yet.

The 9th Dave Robicheaux novel from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling, award-winning author of THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN.

Dave Robicheaux is on the trail of a serial killer, while trying to protect his daughter from a boyfriend with a dark side, in the eighteenth novel in James Lee Burke's classic series.