JAMES LEE BURKE

When Dave Robicheaux gets the call saying his ex-partner Clete Purcel is in jail for felony assault and resisting arrest, bailing him out is instinctive. After all, Clete is the man who saved Dave''s life by carrying him down a fire escape with two bullets in his back. But Clete''s latest escapade isn''t just worrying because it shows his demons are gaining the upper hand; it also brings some of those demons into Dave''s life, in the most personal way possible. The man Clete assaulted, a big-time pimp and meth dealer is a suspect in the murder of a series of young women - but his criminal activities are hidden behind his involvement in a charity aimed at getting young women off the streets. As Dave probes the charity further, he finds that its main sponsor is the smooth-talking scion of a wealthy family, and a man whose motives Dave instinctively mistrusts. He also happens to be Dave''s daughter''s boyfriend.

Dave Robicheaux ha devuelto su placa de policía, ha dejado Nueva Orleans y no es más que un detective retirado en la tranquila Luisiana. Allí, con la ayuda de su mujer, está logrando superar la pesadilla de la guerra de Vietnam y vencer su adiccion al alcohol. Pero un dia, un avion se estrella en las aguas del golfo y el presencia el accidente. Logra salvar con vida a una niña, a quien decide ocultar. El motivo es que todos los ocupantes del avion accidentado, que han fallecido, eran ilegales, y Robicheaux y su esposa no estan dispuestos a entregar a la pequeña a las autoridades. Sin embargo, el detective muy pronto descubrira que no solo los agentes de inmigracion estan interesados en la misteriosa jovencita.

Creole Belle begins where the last book in the Dave Robicheaux series, The Glass Rainbow, ended. Dave is in a recovery unit in New Orleans, where a Creole girl named Tee Jolie Melton visits him and leaves him an iPod with the country blues song 'Creole Belle' on it. Then she disappears. Dave becomes obsessed with the song and the memory of Tee Jolie and goes in search of her sister, who later turns up inside a block of ice floating in the Gulf. Meanwhile, there has been an oil well blowout on the Gulf, threatening the cherished environs of the bayous. Creole Belle is James Lee Burke at his very best, with beloved series hero Dave Robicheaux leading the charge against the destruction of both the land and the people he has sworn to protect.

Dave Robicheaux, reduce del Vietnam ed ex tenete della squadra omicidi di New Orleans, e un originale personaggio noir di questi anni. Per scacciare i fantasmi del passato, e andato a vivere con la famiglia sulla costa della Louisiana, dove affitta barche ai turisti. Ma e da questo mondo sospeso tra terra e acqua, boschi e paludi che emerge un fantasma del passato.

Un sommergibile nazista giace sui fondali al largo della costa di New Orleans. Non aspetta piu al varco le petroliere che salpano da Baton Rouge, come mezzo secolo fa, ma continua a irradiare il suo alone malefico. E lo sceriffo Dave Robicheaux, che ha cominciato a cercare il relitto quasi per gioco, deve fare i conti col peggior incubo che gli possa capitare: uno psicopatico neonazista che comincia a introdursi nella sua vita con la violenza fisica e quella psicologica, fino a portarlo sull'orlo della pazzia.

Nueva Orleans era una canción que sucumbió bajo las olas. La catástrofe era tan inmensa, tan omnipresente, que costaba creer que toda aquella destrucción hubiese sobrevenido en sólo veinticuatro horas. Pero el Katrina no fue lo peor. Una mezcla de hombres de negocios, mafiosos y psicópatas, todos juntos y revueltos. Y los más impredecibles y peligrosos, aquellos que no aparecen en el radar: los criminales amateurs. En una ciudad bajos las aguas, un enorme campo roturado de cadáveres, tres jóvenes negros saquean un barrio residencial de blancos. Entran en la vivienda equivocada y roban, sin saberlo, el botín de sus vidas. Lo que no saben es que su infierno ha acabado de comenzar.

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.

Driven by a keen sense of right versus wrong in the fight against crime following Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana lawman Dave Robicheaux has his own demons of alcoholism and rage to contend with as well.

Burke returns with a masterfully told, high-octane thriller in which a young Iraqi war veteran and his girlfriend find themselves on the run after a series of brutal murders in the Deep South. Fortunately, Sheriff Hack Holland is on the case and back in a world he'd tried to leave behind so long ago. While there are familiar aspects to this story, Burke's writing never fails to captivate nor does Will Patton's narration disappoint. As Sheriff Holland, Patton is gritty and intense, but subtly heartbroken and grieving over the death of his wife. As war veteran Pete Flores, Patton creates a relatable character who is at once terrified and exposed while still as heroic as one can possibly be.

When Detective Dave Robicheaux''s daughter, Alafair, declares her intention to interview a convicted serial killer called Asa Surette, he does all he can to dissuade her. Dave has always encouraged her ambitions as a writer, but as a father he doesn''t want her to be exposed to a man so nakedly evil. And his fears seem well founded when Alafair is visibly shocked by the encounter.Two years later, the horror Surette evoked is all but forgotten, as Dave and his family are vacationing amidst the natural beauty of Montana. But evil, it seems, has followed them into this wild paradise. Someone is stalking Alafair, and Dave begins to suspect that it''s Surette - even though he officially died when the prison truck he was being transported in collided with an oil tanker. Is Alafair now the target of one of the most depraved serial killers ever to have been caught, or has she unwittingly crossed paths with a murderous psychopath closer to home?

Una nuova avventura di Dave Robicheaux, il detective Cajun reduce dal Vietnam ed ex tenente della squadra omicidi di New Orleans. Per scacciare i fantasmi del passato, e andato a vivere con la famiglia sulla costa della Louisiana, dove affitta barche ai turisti e spesso si trova coinvolto in intrighi da risolvere. Questa volta deve proteggere un gruppo di famiglie che da secoli sono insediate sulle terre di un grande proprietario e ora sono minacciate di sgombero. Quello che sembra soltanto un caso di ordinaria prepotenza si trasforma presto in qualcosa di piu serio: nel gioco e coinvolta la mafia locale, reduci del Vietnam e della controguerriglia centroamericana, servizi segreti, trafficanti di droga, giocatori d'azzardo.

La ciudad de Nueva Orleans habría sucumbido al crimen hace mucho tiempo de ser por tipos como Dave Robicheaux, uno de los detectives más curtidos de toda Luisiana. Bebedor, mujeriego y astuto como un zorro, las calles no tienen secretos para el, ni los criminales confian en escapar de las garras de la ley cuando sienten su aliento tras de ellos. Esta vez, sin embargo, lo que aparentemente parecia un caso mas de asesinato se convertira en una trampa infernal. ¿Que relacion puede tener una prostituta muerta con el trafico de drogas a escala internacional? ¿Y con la venta ilegal de armas a Latinoamerica? Robicheaux debera atar cabos rapidamente si quiere salvar el cuello para llegar a descubrir lo mucho que aun le esconde su querida Nueva Orleans.

James Lee Burke's new novel begins in West Texas in 1934, and the story begins with a fateful encounter between the narrator, Weldon Avery Holland, and the notorious Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker - a meeting which ends with the sixteen-year-old Holland putting a bullet through the windscreen of Clyde's stolen automobile. Weldon's education in the evils that men - and women - are capable of continues as we move to the Ardennes Forest and the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, where Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland saves his sergeant, Hershel Pine, from death by suffocation when he is buried alive in his foxhole under the treads of a Waffen SS Tiger tank. Weldon and Hershel survive the executions of the wounded by the SS and escape on a freight train deep into Nazi Germany. There, they stumble into an extermination camp deserted by the SS, and discover among the stacked bodies a young woman named Rosita Lowenstein - the second woman to change Weldon's life. Weldon goes all the way to the Elbe River in the war's brutal climax, but afterwards he is determined to find Rosita - eventually tracking her down in Paris, where they get married. But Hershel has also found gold in the dross of conflict, claiming to have discovered the secret to the Tiger tank's indestructibility, its unique welding process - and on their return to the States, it looks as if the two friends have not merely survived; they're going to be rich. But as the two form a pipeline corporation and enter the oil business, they are about to encounter - amidst the super-rich of Huston - levels of greed and cruelty they thought they had left far behind in the blood and horror of war.

A routine assignment transporting two death-row prisoners to their executions goes fatally wrong, leaving Dave Robicheaux brutally wounded and his partner dead.Obsessed with revenge, Dave is persuaded by the DEA to go undercover into the torrid sleepy depths of New Orleans, a volatile world of Mafia drug-running and Cajun voodoo magic. He becomes irrevocably snarled in the nightmarish web surrounding Mafia don Tony Cardo and must put himself against his own worst fears in order to survive.

When 16-year-old Weldon Avery Holland encounters the notorious Bonnie and Clyde in his Texas hometown, the course of his young life is altered forever. He dedicates himself to fighting evil wherever he finds it. But it's the 1930s and evil is sweeping the globe as the Nazis rise. When war breaks out, Holland finds himself in Germany, irrevocably scarred by scenes of death and destruction. Peacetime brings apparent bliss, and Holland is offered a path to wealth and luxury by the enigmatic 'Wayfaring Stranger'. But soon, he discovers that the greed, violence and ruthlessness of war are nothing compared to the depths of human cruelty at play here.