Author(s): James Lee Burke

Fiction

The return of Detective Dave Robicheaux Dave Robicheaux returns to the Big Easy in a spellbinding tale of conspiracy, passion, and murder. A rainy late-summer night finds him in a New Orleans bar, about to confront the man who may have savagely assaulted his friend, the controversial Catholic priest Jimmie Dolan. But things in a Burke novel are rarely what they seem, and soon Robicheaux is back in New Iberia, probing a car crash that killed three teenage girls. A grief-crazed father and a maniacal, conflicted assassin are just a few of the characters Robicheaux meets as he is drawn deeper into a viper's nest of sordid secrets and escalating violence that sets him up for a confrontation that echoes down the lonely corridors of his own unresolved past...