Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruised heart in order to survive.
Dave Robicheau Série
Tato série vás vtáhne do srdce Louisiany, kde se bývalý policista a nyní soukromý detektiv Dave Robicheaux potýká s temnými tajemstvími svého domova. S každým případem se ponoří hlouběji do světa zločinu, korupce a násilí, ale také do hlubin lidské duše. Je to syrové a atmosférické vyprávění, kde se minulost neustále vrací a stíny minulosti vrhají dlouhý stín na přítomnost.
Doporučené pořadí čtení
Heaven's Prisoners
- 352 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
The second Dave Robicheaux novel from the award-winning crime writer.
Black Cherry Blues
- 400 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
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 tranquility 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. 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
- 388 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
Clutching the shards, of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New lberia police force. His partner is dead -- slain during a condemned prisoner's bloodyflight to freedom that left Robicheaux critically wounded...and reawakened the ghost of his haunted, violent past. Now he's trailing a killer into the sordid head of die Big Easy-caught up in the lethal undercurrents of a mob double-cross...confronting his most dangerous enemy: himself
Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux finds himself entangled with childhood friends with a violent famly history.
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead
- 344 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
Back in print at last, James Lee Burke's suspense-packed sixth novel in his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series delivers a heart-pounding bayou manhunt--and features "one of the colest, earthiest heroes in thrilerdom" ("Entertainment Weekly "). 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 face-to-face with the elusive guardians of his darkest torments-- who hold the key to his ultimate salvation . . . or a final, fatal downfall.
As a child he was frightened by the stories...It's out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast--a buried Nazi submarine. Detective Dave Robicheaux of the New Ibera Sheriff's office has known if its existence since childhood, when he was terrified by nightmares of the evil Nazi sailors just offshore. Then, as a teenager, he stumbled upon the sunken sub while scuba diving--but for years he kept the secret of its watery grave.... And now he must face the terrible reality.But decades later, when a powerful Jewish activist wants the sub raised, Robicheaux's knowledge puts him at the center of a terrifying struggle of conflicting desires. A neo-Nazi psychopath named Will Buchalter, who insists that the Holocaust was a hoax, wants to find the submarine first--and he'll stop at nothing to get Robicheaux to talk.James Lee Burke looks long and hard into the human heart of darkness in his most electrifying novel yet, a story of terror and courage in a Southern Louisiana where the horrific and the beautiful rise from the same fertile soil.
Burning Angel
- 340 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
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.
Cadillac Jukebox
- 464 stránek
- 17 hodin čtení
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."
“One of the best novels of the year from one of the very best writers at work today.”—Rocky Mountain News The townspeople of New Iberia, Louisiana, didn’t crucify Megan Flynn’s father. They just didn’t catch whoever pinned him to a barn wall with sixteen-penny nails. Decades later, Megan, now a world-famous photojournalist, has come back to the bayou, looking for cop Dave Robicheaux. It was Dave who found the body of labor leader Jack Flynn. The sight changed the boy, shaped him as a man. And after forty years, Robicheaux is still haunted by the bizarre unsolved slaying. Now Megan’s return has stirred up the ghosts of the long-buried past, igniting a storm of violence that will rip apart lives of blacks and whites in this bayou country. And for a good cop with bad memories, hard desire, and chilling nightmares, the time has come to uncover the truth.
Kat musí zemřít
- 252 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
Detektivní román z amerického Jihu představuje svérázného detektiva Dava Robicheauxe, který na svou citlivost vůči bezpráví doplácí řadou osobních krizí. V této knize se hrdina vrací o třicet let zpátky do minulosti, aby vyšetřil okolnosti tragické smrti své matky. Touha po pomstě ho zaslepí natolik, že téměř zapomene pracovat na současném případu, než zjistí, jak dalece s minulostí souvisí. Při svém neoficiálním pátrání se dostane nejen do vyšších politických kruhů, ale proniká i mezi mafiány a své zkorumpované kolegy, kteří na příkaz mocných odstraňují nepohodlné oběti.
America's most acclaimed crime writer and winner of the 1998 CWA/Macallan Gold Dagger returns to Louisiana with his great detective, Dave Robicheaux schovat popis
A Dave Robicheaux Novel: Last Car to Elysian Fields
- 465 stránek
- 17 hodin čtení
For Dave Robicheaux, returning to New Orleans means confronting old ghosts and familiar dangers. Now a police officer in New Iberia, he learns that his friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, has been brutally assaulted, prompting him to investigate unofficially in the city that haunts him. Unbeknownst to Robicheaux, this decision invites an ancestral evil that threatens his life and those around him. Assisted by his friend, P.I. Clete Purcel, Robicheaux confronts Gunner Ardoin, the suspected assailant, but the situation escalates, leading to Clete's arrest and a warning for Robicheaux to stay away from New Orleans. Back in New Iberia, tragedy strikes as three teenage girls die in a drunk-driving accident involving the daughter of a prominent physician. Robicheaux traces the alcohol's source to a local daiquiri window, but when its owner is murdered, he suspects the grieving father. His theory is challenged when the murder weapon is linked to someone else. Meanwhile, Father Dolan asks for help investigating a toxic landfill in New Orleans, which leads to the mystery of a missing blues musician. Tying these threads together is Max Coll, a relentless hitman targeting Father Dolan. As violence escalates, Robicheaux finds himself drawn deeper into a web of secrets, forcing him to confront his unresolved past. This tale masterfully explores the darker sides of human nature, filled with unforgettable characters and the atmospheric tension tha
Tough, former New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux is back. On a visit to a dying cop whom he once hated, Robicheaux is led towards the solution of the disappearance of a young woman he and his brother once knew--and family secrets he must confront and resolve.
Napínavý příběh se odehrává v Louisianě a detektiv Robicheaux se v něm snaží vypořádat s několika vraždami i s nepotrestanou smrtí přítele před dvaceti lety. Hlavní hrdina Dave Robicheau má za sebou dramatickou minulost, teď však žije spokojeným manželským životem a vykonává funkci detektiva v iberijském okrese ve státě Louisiana. Náhodné setkání mu znovu připomnělo dávnou nevyřešenou vraždu v Miami, která ho bolestně poznamenala. Kromě starého případu Robicheaux vyšetřuje i sebevraždu studentky a několik dalších podivných úmrtí. Ve hře je místní podsvětí, vysoká politika a v neposlední řadě i problémy a noční můry samotného detektiva. Drsný detektivní román je zaměřen především na psychiku zúčastněných osob - obětí, podezřelých i vyšetřujících.
This is James Lee Burke's latest mystery featuring Dave Robicheaux. It is also much more than that. The story begins with the shooting of two would-be looters in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and then follows a motley group of characters - from street thugs to a big-time mob boss, from a junkie priest to a sadistic psychopath - as their stories converge on a cache of stolen diamonds, while the storm turns the Big Easy into a lawless wasteland of apocalyptic proportions. The nightmarish landscape created by Katrina seems the perfect setting for Burke's almost Biblical visions of good and evil - it is as if he had to wait for this disaster to find the occasion to match his emotionally supercharged prose. You can feel the undercurrents of rage and pain beneath the narrative, making this not only his most personal and deeply felt book for some time, but quite possibly his best novel to date. This is not just a superb crime novel, it is potentially THE fictional chronicle of a disaster whose human dimensions America is still struggling to process.
The latest tale featuring the popular and flawed detective Dave Robicheaux takes him from the bayous of Louisiana's New Iberia Parish to the wild mountains of Montana.
The Glass Rainbow
- 528 stránek
- 19 hodin čtení
In this gripping new novel, Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to New Iberia, Louisiana, facing the most harrowing case of his career as seven young women are brutally murdered in neighboring Jefferson Davis Parish. While the killings suggest a serial killer, the death of high school honor student Bernadette Latiolais stands out, as she doesn't fit the profile of typical victims. Robicheaux and his friend Clete Purcel confront Herman Stanga, a despised pimp and crack dealer, but when Stanga is found dead after a violent encounter with Purcel, the investigation spirals into chaos, jeopardizing Clete's life and career. Compounding Robicheaux's troubles is his daughter Alafair, who is on leave from Stanford Law to finish her novel. Her relationship with Kermit Abelard, a celebrated novelist from a declining Louisiana family, raises alarms for Robicheaux, especially given Abelard's ties to Robert Weingart, a manipulative ex-convict author. As Alafair seems to drift away, Robicheaux grapples with his own paranoia, only to discover that his instincts about the dangers surrounding her are all too accurate. Set against a backdrop of beauty threatened by dark forces, this novel promises to be a standout in the Robicheaux series.
“America’s best novelist” James Lee Burke returns with another New York Times bestselling entry in the Dave Robicheaux thriller series (The Denver Post). Set against the events of the Gulf Coast oil spill, rife with “the menaces of greed and violence and man-made horror” (The Christian Science Monitor), Creole Belle finds Dave Robicheaux languishing in a New Orleans recovery unit since surviving a bayou shoot-out. The detective’s body is healing; it’s his morphine-addled mind that conjures spectral visions of Tee Jolie Melton, a young woman who in reality has gone missing. An iPod with an old blues song left by his bedside turns Robicheaux into a man obsessed…And as oil companies assign blame after an epic disaster threatens the Gulf’s very existence, Robicheaux unearths connections between tragedies both global and personal—and faces down forces that can corrupt and destroy the best of men.
Light of the World
- 548 stránek
- 20 hodin čtení
A summer getaway in Montana for Dave Robicheaux's family and friends is violently shattered by the arrival of serial killer and prison escapee Asa Surrette.
In New Orleans, powerful mob boss Tony Nemo has a Civil War sword he'd like to give to Levon Broussard, a popular local author whose books have been adapted into major Hollywood films. The sword's history can be traced back to Broussard's ancestors, and Tony figures it belongs to Levon. But Tony's intentions aren't so pure.
Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood director.Twenty-five years later, when Robicheaux knocks on Cormier's door, it isn't to congratulate him on his Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Robicheaux has discovered the body of a young woman who's been crucified, wearing only a small chain on her ankle. She disappeared near Cormier's Cyrpemort Point estate, and Robicheaux, along with young deputy, Sean McClain, are looking for answers. Neither Cormier nor his enigmatic actor friend Antoine Butterworth are saying much, but Robicheaux knows better.As always, Clete Purcel and Davie's daughter, Alafair, have Robicheaux's back. Clete witnesses the escape of Texas inmate, Hugo Tillinger, who may hold the key to Robicheaux's case. As they wade further into the investigation, they end up in the crosshairs of the mob, the deranged Chester Wimple, and the dark ghosts Robicheaux has been running from for years. Ultimately, it's up to Robicheaux to stop them all, but he'll have to summon a light he's never seen or felt to save himself, and those he loves.
A Private Cathedral
- 416 stránek
- 15 hodin čtení
Detective Dave Robicheaux is back in his most difficult case yet.
Související knihy
DIXIE CITY JAM When a Nazi submarine is discovered lying in sixty feet of water off the Louisiana coast, some troubled ghosts are ready to be released. A local businessman is offering Detective Dave Robicheaux big money to bring the wreck to the surface, but he is not the only one after the submarine and its cargo. A new spirit of hatred is abroad, and its embodiment is stalking Robicheaux's wife...BURNING ANGEL When Sonny Marsallas entrusts a mysterious notebook to Dave Robicheaux, a series of violent events is set in train. What did Sonny's girlfriend know that resulted in her murder? What are Sonny's connections with the Mob that finally lead them to send a hitman after Dave? BURNING ANGEL outstrips its crime thriller label to produce a rich, sardonic and terrifying portrayal of contemporary America. PURPLE CANE ROAD Detective Dave Robicheaux embarks on a painful journey to a murky past, when he his told that his mother, Mae, was a hooker and ended her life drowned in a puddle by two cops working for the Mob. Dave learns to confront and accept his mistakes as he tries to track down his mother's killers and bring them to justice.
