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New Iberia, Louisiana, is reeling from a one-two punch of brutal rape-homicides, and drug-addicted blues singer Tee Bobby Hulin has been tagged as the prime suspect. No stranger to bucking popular opinion, police detective Dave Robicheaux senses it's not Hulin behind the atrocities. But while... read more
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Characters edit
- Dave Robicheaux: Protagonist. The author's recurring detective hero, police detective, New Iberia, LA. Ex NOPD.
- Helen Soileau: Robicheaux's police partner. Ex NOPD.
- Amanda Boudreau: Murdered 16 year old honor student.
- Tee Bobby Hulin: A "25 year old black hustler and full time 'smart ass' ... skated on the edge of the system ..."
- Rosebud Hulin: Tee Bobby's autistic twin sister.
- Ladice Hulin: Tee Bobby's and Rosebud's grandmother.
- Clete Purcel: Dave Robicheaux’s best friend; ex NOPD Homicide Dept. partner of Robicheaux's. Helps him out in difficult situations. Currently a P.I., also a bounty-hunter for locals Rosewater and Bimstein.
- Barbara "Battering Ram" Shanahan: Assistant D.A., Prosecutor for New Iberia, LA.
- Perry LaSalle: Defense attorney for Tee Bobby Hulin; from a very prominent So. Louisiana family.
- Linda Zeroski: Murdered, white street prostitute; daughter of Joe Zeroski - ex button-man for the Giacomo crime family.
- Zerelda Calucci: Joe Zeroski's niece; also a P.I. working for Perry LaSalle on the defense of Tee Bobby.
- Jimmy Dean Styles: Ex boxer, now owner of a ramshackled bar named the "Boom Boom Room."
- Legion Guidry: Overseer on the LaSalle Plantation on Poinciana Island, in the early 1950's.
- Marvin Oates: Door-to-door Bible and magazine salesman, in and around New Iberia, LA.
First Sentence edit
Growing up during the 1940s in New Iberia, down on the Gulf Coast, I never doubted how the world worked.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 12 of 19 in Robicheaux. (standard series)
Preceded by Purple Cane Road, and followed by Last Car to Elysian Fields.
Authors & Contributors edit
- James Lee Burke (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 4, 2002
ISBN: 0743204840
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 4, 2002
ISBN: 0743204840
Page Count: 352
Awards edit
- Dashiell Hammett Award (Finalist, 2002: Crime)
- Macavity Awards (Finalist, 2003: Best Mystery Novel)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3552.U723 J65 2002
- Dewey: 813.54
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Wikipedia Article on Dave Robicheaux: Once an officer for the New Orleans police department, Robicheaux constantly breaches the ethical code over the course of just about every case he works on - seemingly without consequence - and currently pursues cases in New Iberia, Louisiana as sheriff's deputy. He is a recovering alcoholic whose demons stem from his service in the Vietnam War and his impoverished difficult childhood in rural Louisiana; his mother abandoned the family (and was later murdered) and his father died in an oil rig explosion.
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