Bøger af James Lee Burke

I Iberia blues er James Lee Burkes kriminalassistent Dave Robicheaux på trods af alderen på (evig) fuldtid i Louisianas sumplande. Vi er i røgfyldte blues-barer, blandt religiøse fanatikere og blandt Hollywood-minglerer og ikke mindst i den allestedsnærværende bayou, der bugter sig gennem både fortællingen og Robicheaux’s eget liv.Det er 25 år siden, kriminalassistent Dave Robicheaux sidst så sin gamle ven Desmond Cormier, og Cormier er vendt tilbage til sin fødeegn for at indspille sin næste billion-dollar mesterværk. Under et besøg får Robicheaux fra Cormiers egen veranda øje på liget af en ung, sort kvinde, der på grusom vis er blevet bundet til et kors og smidt i vandet.Robicheaux får sin sag for. Ligene begynder at hobe sig op; både alderen, knæene og minderne gør mere og mere ondt, og snart ved Dave Robicheaux ikke, hvem han kan stole på og komme til bunds i perversiteterne.James Lee Burke kridter i Iberia blues hjemmebanen op og leverer et stykke Americana, en elegant spændingsroman, der både understreger USA's placering som et eksotisk tredjeverdens land og Burke som en fremragende fortæller.

In this haunting new novel, "New York Times" bestselling author Burke takes readers back to New Orleans, where detective Dave Robicheaux becomes engulfed in a dangerous mystery surrounding a beautiful girl and stolen money.

Praised by Joyce Carol Oates for "the luminosity of his writerly voice," Burke returns with his most allegorical novel to date, illuminating vital issues of our time--immigration, energy, religious freedom--with the rich atmosphere and devastatingly flawed, authentic characters that readers have come to celebrate during the five decades of his brilliant career.

When two women are brutally murdered in New Iberia, Louisiana, drug addicted blues singer Tee Bobby Hulin is suspected. But police detective David Robicheaux senses Hulin is innocent, and uncovers secrets reaching back to the days of slavery.

Despite their misgivings about "the Cause," Willie Burke and his best friends, three young men from New Iberia, Louisiana, enlist in the Confederate Army and head off to war, in a novel drawn from the author's own family history.

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

Far from Louisiana, Detective Dave Robicheaux and his wife attempt to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montana. But the serenity is soon shattered when two college students are found brutally murdered. This gripping "New York Times" bestseller is available in a tall Premium Edition.

In his most autobiographical novel to date, James Lee Burke continues the epic Holland family saga with a writer grieving the death of his daughter while battling earthly and supernatural outlaws.Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight. Aaron's only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted Horse, a no-nonsense woman who harbors some powerful secrets in her cellar. Despite the air of mystery surrounding her, Ruby is the only one Aaron can trust. That is, until the ghost of Fannie Mae shows up, guiding her father through a tangled web of the present and past and helping him vanquish his foes from both this world and the next. Drawn from James Lee Burke's own life experiences, Every Cloak Rolled in Blood is a devastating exploration of the nature of good and evil and a deeply moving story about the power of love and family.

From the best-selling author of Sunset Limited, now available in mass market: a classic tale of a man haunted by memories of the Korean War, the ancestors he was named after, and the man he used to be.Hack Holland's a hard drinker, a lawyer, and a wealthy progressive Democrat. He's also a disillusioned man, running a half-hearted campaign for a Texas congressional seat. But when his efforts to help an old war buddy culminate in his unwitting involvement in a civil rights conflict, Hack finds himself rebuilding his life.

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.

From one of America's most widely acclaimed writers comes a masterwork of detective fiction, the most suspenseful, thematically complex, and dazzling accomplishment in the series featuring Dave Robicheaux. A movie crew has come to New Iberia, Louisiana, to film a Civil War epic, and star Elrod Sykes just can't seem to keep his lavender Cadillac on the road. Under threat of a drunk-driving charge, he offers Detective Dave Robicheaux information in exchange for leniency: he leads him to the skeletal remains of a black man whose murder Robicheaux witnessed in the summer of 1957 as a college freshman. The still-unsolved crime haunts him as he grapples with a more pressing, contemporary horror, the serial rape and murder of young prostitutes. When the FBI arrives in the person of agent Rosie Gomez, Robicheaux must form a new partnership that challenges how he views himself and his local community, where officials have joined forces with such dubious "talent" as Julie "Baby Feet" Balboni, an investor in the movie project that is generating much-needed income for the region. It is only when Dave makes the acquaintance of the legendary Confederate cavalry officer General John Bell Hood in the mist of the bayou that he begins to understand that "the war is never over", and that the battle rages on. James Lee Burke's brilliant handling of a multilayered plot, entwined with a reverie on the death of the chivalric code in the South, makes for a stunning novel in a series that is redefining the genre.

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.

Out of print since 1991, Two for Texas is a rip-roaring historical novel about the Texas Revolution of 1835. No reader of Burke's bestselling Dave Robicheaux detective novels will want to miss this marvelous work that pre-dates his success.

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 Robichaux’ kone, Molly er død. I en trafikulykke. Trafikdræbt, mener Robicheaux. Det er tre måneder siden, og alle dæmonerne fra fortiden, alkoholismen, Vietnam-mareridtene og de tilbagevendende syner af krigen mellem sydstaterne og nordstaterne dukker op igen og skærper hans følsomhed og eftertænksomhed.Selvfølgelig optræder hans makker Clete Purcel, også, altid på vej ud over kanten. Det samme er datteren Alafair, flere håndfylde kriminelle og psykopater og politikere. Allesammen præsenteret på en tropisk baggrund i det sydlige Louisinana. ”Gumbo crime,” skrev New York Times.På jagt efter Mollys drabsmand støder Robicheaux og Clete ind i ambitiøs og sympatisk sydstatspolitiker, Jimmy Nightinggale, som det er svært at indvende noget imod, en mand med alle de rigtige meninger, som pæne mennesker nu abonnerer på. I USA og i Danmark. Alligevel bliver han pludselig beskyldt for en voldtægt, , og mærkeligt nok bliver han også kædet sammen med en overvægtig mafialeder, Tony Blæksprutte med mange specialer, bl.a. at få folk til at forsvinde Men da der pludselig dukker en psyko-infantil lejemorder op, der giver børnene is, og likviderer en række personer med forbindelse til ”sagen”, befinder såvel Robicheaux og Clete og Nightingale sig pludselig midt i skiven, Og hvorfor, og hvem har mon interesse i at likvidere en håbefuld, demokratisk sydstatspolitiker og to pensionsmodne efterforskere?

Haunting suspense and captivating villains, the hallmark of James Lee Burke’s bestselling novels of evil and redemption, are brilliantly evoked in his new Billy Bob Holland opus, the follow-up to the popular and critically acclaimed Bitterroot. “James Lee Burke tells a story in a style all his own, in language that's alive, electric. He's a master at setting mood, laying in atmosphere, all with quirky dialogue that's a delight.” —Elmore LeonardIn James Lee Burke’s last novel featuring Billy Bob Holland, Bitterroot, the former Texas Ranger left his home state to help a friend threatened by the most dangerous sociopath Billy Bob had ever faced. After vanquishing a truly iniquitous collection of violent individuals, Billy moved his family to west Montana and hung out a shingle for his law practice. But in In the Moon of Red Ponies, he discovers that jail cells have revolving doors and that the government he had sworn to serve may have become his enemy. His first client in Missoula is Johnny American Horse, a young activist for land preservation and the rights of Native Americans. Johnny is charged with the murder of two mysterious men—who seem to have recently tried to kill Johnny themselves, or at least scare him off his political causes. As Billy Bob investigates, he discovers a web of intrigue surrounding the case and its players: Johnny's girlfriend, Amber Finley, as reckless as she is defiant—and the daughter of one of Montana's US senators; Darrel McComb, a Missoula police detective who is obsessed with Amber; and Seth Masterson, an enigmatic government agent whose presence in town makes Billy Bob wonder why Washington has become so concerned with an obscure murder case on the fringes of the Bitterroot Mountains. As complications mount and the dead bodies multiply, Billy Bob is drawn closer to the truth behind Johnny American Horse’s arrest—and discovers a greater danger to himself and to his whole family. How Billy Bob strikes back at evil and protects his kin is the masterful triumph of In the Moon of Red Ponies. Beautifully written, with an intriguing plot and characters whose conflicts seem as real as life itself, this novel shows James Lee Burke again in the top form that has made him a critical favorite and a national bestseller.