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  Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries (Paperback))

  by James Lee Burke

  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... (more)
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  Heaven's Prisoners

  by James Lee Burke

  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 homegrown crime. Suddenly Robicheaux is confronting Bubba Rocque, a brutal hood he's known since... (more)
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  The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

  by James Lee Burke

  In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown , begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash... (more)
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  Pegasus Descending: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)

  by James Lee Burke

  When a nice young woman named Trish Klein blows into Louisiana passing hundred-dollar bills in local casinos, detective Dave Robicheaux senses a storm bearing down on his new life of contentment....Twenty-five years ago, lost in a drunken haze in Florida, Robicheaux was too far gone to save his friend and fellow 'Nam vet Dallas Klein, murdered in cold blood for gambling debts. Now, the arrival of Dallas's daughter... (more)
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  Dark End of the Street

  by Ace Atkins

  The plan is simple. A favor really. All Nick Travers, a former professional football player turned professor, has to do is drive up Highway 61 from New Orleans to Memphis and track down the lost brother of one of his best friends. But as Travers knows, these simple jobs seldom turn out smoothly. His friend's brother is Clyde James, who, in 1968, was one of the finest soul singers Memphis had to offer. But when... (more)
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  Leavin' Trunk Blues: A Nick Travers Mystery

  by Ace Atkins

  It's been a year since Nick Traver's search for the lost recording of blues phantom Robert Johnson in Crossroad Blues. He has grown comfortable playing his harp at JoJo's in the French Quarter and teaching blues history at Tulane. A difficult case was the last thing on the blues tracker's mind. When new details on the mysterious death of a blues record producer surface from a legendary guitarist over a bottle of... (more)
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  Crossroad Blues: A Nick Travers Mystery

  by Ace Atkins

  With overwhelming acclaim from reviewers, readers, and peers alike, first-time novelist Ace Atkins hits a high note with Nick Travers, mystery fiction's first blues hero. An ex-football pro, Nick's days are now as languid as the Big Easy itself-he teaches the History of Blues at Tulane and occasionally plays the harmonica at JoJo's Blues Bar in the French Quarter. But when a colleague disappears into the... (more)
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  Cadillac Jukebox (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)

  by James Lee Burke

  When a man imprisoned for killing a black civil rights leader protests his innocence before Dave Robicheaux, the Louisiana detective finds himself pressured by the state's new governor and his seductive wife to stay away from the case. Reprint."
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  Emerald Lizard: A Neal Rafferty Mystery

  by Chris Wiltz

  Arson. Old Lovers. Murder in New Orleans. When an ex-girlfriend calls detective Neal Rafferty for help, he begins a d ark journey of revenge that takes him from sleazy bars to pool rooms to a picturesque fishing community down the Mississipi River as he tracks her killer.
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  A Diamond Before You Die: A Neal Rafferty New Orleans Mystery (Neal Rafferty New Orleans Mysteries)

  by Chris Wiltz

  Murder at Mardi Gras. In New Orleans, the masks hide a multitude of sins. A would-be district attorney hires detective Neal Rafferty to watch his wife, who has hired the cool, classy Lee Diamond to watch her husband. But as the bodies fall, Rafferty realizes that the game is not adultery. "A tangle of corrupt politics...A hot affair" — Publishers Weekly
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  Big Easy Backroad (A PI Jack Delmas Mystery)

  by Martin Hegwood

  In the sizzling tradition of James Lee Burke and Lawrence Block, author Martin Hegwood brings Dixie grit and flavor to a novel of a Florida Gulf mob murder that twists faster than a back swamp road. After drowning in a barmaid's sea-green eyes, P.I. Jack Delmas agrees to track down her missing pal-only to find him murdered, voodoo-style. Delmas suspects druglord Andr Mouton, the Undertaker, who rules New Orlean's... (more)
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  Jolie Blon's Bounce

  by James Lee Burke, James Burke

  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 placating a town on fire for swift revenge, Robicheaux must face his own demons -- an ultimate reckoning with Legion... (more)
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  Purple Cane Road

  by James Lee Burke

  From Edgar Award-winner James Lee Burke comes this emotional powerhouse of a novel ... in which everyman hero Dave Robicheaux confronts the secrets of his long-forgotten past in a shattering tale of revenge, murder, and a mother's haunting legacy.... Robicheaux first hears it from a pimp eager to trade information for his life: Mae Guillory was murdered outside a New Orleans nightclub by two cops. Dave Robicheaux... (more)
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  Skip Langdon: Book 1

  New Orleans Mourning (Skip Langdon Novels (Paperback))

  by Julie Smith

  When the smiling King of Carnival is killed at Mardi Gras, policewoman Skip Langdon is on the case. She knows the upper-crust family of the victim and that it hides more than its share of glittering skeletons. But nothing could prepare her for the tangled web of clues and ancient secrets that would mean danger for her--and doom for the St. Amants.... "Smith is a gifted writer." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
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  Skip Langdon: Book 8

  82 Desire

  by Julie Smith

  Councilwoman Bebe Fortier has misplaced her equally prominent husband. Across town, part-time detective-poet Talba Wallis has a simple wish--to find out what Russell Fortier's disappearance has to do with her. But the private investigator who hired Talba to spy on Fortier can't help her out. He's lying in his office with a bullet in his chest. At first, Police Detective Skip Langdon thinks it's just a small case... (more)
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  Skip Langdon: Book 2

  The Axeman's Jazz: A Skip Langdon Novel

  by Julie Smith

  "Julie Smith not only firmly establishes her claim to the New Orleans crime scene, but she explores an intriguing new franchise for the serial killer." Sue Grafton For detective Skip Langdon, the murder of a multiple self-help group member is no fun. Even if the guilty character is claiming the mantle last held by the Axeman, a notorious New Orleans serial killer of seventy years ago. Yet as Skip threads her... (more)