In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (Dave Robicheaux, #6)

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In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (Dave Robicheaux #6)

by James Lee Burke, Mark Hammer (Narrator)

4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 · rating details · 3,564 ratings · 169 reviews

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 Da...more

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Oct 01, 2012 Ed La Salle rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I discovered Burke by accident. A librarian in the small southern community college where I was teaching told me, "You must read him Ed." So, I did. This particular Burke selection plot gets a bit choppy at times, but the characters all come to life. Burke's protagonist (Dave Robicheaux) is a southern Louisiana Sheriff. He is a dry drunk, and that is not an easy thing to do in southern Louisiana. Anyhow, in this caper he gets mixed up with a pimp, a hollywood movie production (filming in the bay...more

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Jul 09, 2012 Dermott Hayes added it · review of another edition

James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels are never 'typical' crime novels. First, there's Robicheaux, a disgraced, former NOPD Homicide lieutenant turned sheriff's detective in Iberia Parish. Robicheaux is a good man with a chequered past; a Vietnam veteran and recovering alcoholic who carries traces of post-traumatic stress disorder and an unspecified, but lingering, guilt from the eruption of his parents' marriage, his father's death and his mother's violent murder at the hands of corrupt, NOP...more James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels are never 'typical' crime novels. First, there's Robicheaux, a disgraced, former NOPD Homicide lieutenant turned sheriff's detective in Iberia Parish. Robicheaux is a good man with a chequered past; a Vietnam veteran and recovering alcoholic who carries traces of post-traumatic stress disorder and an unspecified, but lingering, guilt from the eruption of his parents' marriage, his father's death and his mother's violent murder at the hands of corrupt, NOPD detectives. His background is working class,backwoods, Louisiana Cajun. He's Catholic. He runs a bait shop and bayou cafe when he's not detecting. He has problems with authority, is single-minded in his pursuit of wrongdoers, corporate polluters and the antebellum remnants of the southern ascendancy.Robicheaux, although an essentially good man, has a violent streak. Some of Burke's other novels, like Two for Texas, are historical explorations of the complex forces that combine to make up Robicheaux's contemporary environment; Louisiana's sub-tropical swamplands, struggling to survive against the elements of natural phenomena like hurricanes, corporate greed and pollution and the complicit dealings of corrupt politicians, police and the Mafia.
Into this milieu in 'In the Electric Mist', he introduces a story about a violent and sexually perverted, serial killer, an alcoholic, Hollywood actor with psychic leanings and a sociopathic, Mafia boss turned film producer. The actor taps in to Robicheaux's own psychic inclinations by introducing him to the ghost of a one legged, one armed, Confederate general who, along with his ragged bunch of soldiers, haunts the swamps around his home.
Now he's worried it's just a dry drunk dream or living nightmare or has he conscripted into a new struggle with the Confederate dead, to fight the forces of evil, whether corporate, criminal or perverse or combinations thereof, that threaten his life and the lives of those he love as well as the environment they live in?
I've read everything I could find of James Lee Burke's and I'm a fan. (less)

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Sep 22, 2012 Diane rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I changed my rating from 3 stars to 4, because this thriller has stuck with me in a way that others don't. I could have done with fewer plot lines and the strain it took to make them interconnect, especially in the final chapters. Yet, I'm haunted (just like some of the characters) by Burke's descriptions of the southern Louisiana landscape, not only visual images, but the sounds and even smells that characterize it. The novel is also deeply rooted in the region's history, from the days of the C...more

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Jan 03, 2012 wally rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: burke

this will be the 2nd burke for me. the 1st a month or so ago...what was it? the one w/the cross on the cover....feast day of fools...kindle, that one, this one is a paperback...though the cover on mine is different.

this one looks to be from 1993...does not sound like a first, obviously not the last. onward and upward

update: tuesday morn, the 3rd...finished.

good story. i liked the use of the confederate dead, ghosts from the past. set in louisiana...a movie being made nearby, different breeds of...more this will be the 2nd burke for me. the 1st a month or so ago...what was it? the one w/the cross on the cover....feast day of fools...kindle, that one, this one is a paperback...though the cover on mine is different.

this one looks to be from 1993...does not sound like a first, obviously not the last. onward and upward

update: tuesday morn, the 3rd...finished.

good story. i liked the use of the confederate dead, ghosts from the past. set in louisiana...a movie being made nearby, different breeds of people involved w/that setting. more than one young woman is murdered and part of the story is discovering who is behind those crimes. those crimes are not the only misdeeds here.

dave robixcheaux is the good-guy cop, married, w/an adopted daughter. an fbi agent enters the scene. that relationship seemed a bit...flawed...but is that fair? i've no idea of police procedure, yet the agent, rosie, seemed at times like little more than scenery. at other times she plays a large part in the story. what she does in the story does not seem...important? relevant? yeah, i think that is it...i assume an fbi agent would...i dunno. her place in the story did not seem as developed as it either one could have been, or two...she is there as the fbi...but there is no communication w/her superiors, or that angle. she does detective work...yet at times...i dunno, at times her relationship w/dave seemed too....easy....too...convenient. there is the male-female thingy present among the other cops there...not so much w/dave....

the ending...a big part of that was not as believable as it was played. why would the bad guy do what he did, considering that he would likely "walk" given the parameters of the legal system?

still...a good story....and the confederate dead made it so, as did the character portrayal of so many of the characters....black, white, cajun, all of them. so many of the black characters really stand out...they say things the reader isn't prepared for, things that i can't imagine anticipating...as do the confederate dead....the general.

there's some nice exchanges between the confederate general and dave...imagine it...something from our time meeting/talking w/a man from that time. dave uses words, expressions that confuse the general...

anyway, i enjoyed this story...the narrative moves along nicely...lot of suspense, action...some things seem cliche, but that is okay, because at times we say things that are cliche...we're human...all too human, and the characters in this story are that, human, ghosts and otherwise.

one last thing....it is in the electric mist with confederate dead....that second article "the" is not present, unless the copy i own is a printing error.

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Jun 08, 2012 Cathy DuPont rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Dave, Dave, Dave. Your moral compass seems to move constantly depending on the circumstances. The inner demons never go away either so you're in a constant battle with yourself. Maybe easing up on yourself would help? Perhaps, but probably not. And how would you do that anyway? A psychiatrist couch? That's not going to happen.

Thank god for Alafair and Bootsie who help you keep the hands on the moral compass in the green area and out of the red and yellow although sometimes they can't even help...more Dave, Dave, Dave. Your moral compass seems to move constantly depending on the circumstances. The inner demons never go away either so you're in a constant battle with yourself. Maybe easing up on yourself would help? Perhaps, but probably not. And how would you do that anyway? A psychiatrist couch? That's not going to happen.

Thank god for Alafair and Bootsie who help you keep the hands on the moral compass in the green area and out of the red and yellow although sometimes they can't even help you. You can only help yourself and it's a constant battle, we know.

And if not for these colorful and crooked old classmates of yours, your life would be less eventful but then I could not enjoy the adventure you take me on each reading when I can't turn the pages fast enough.

Dave, you had multiple storylines this time around; murder you witnessed 30+ years ago; serial killer on the loose; making of a movie about the Civil War; a drunken actor who insists he's seen war torn solders; your own visions; and an old schoolmate and not so upstanding citizen who moved back to New Iberia for the movie. Looks like he may have a monetary interest in the movie as a scam. Plus, Dave, there are a number of secondary storylines such as your new temporay partner from the FBI, Rosie Gomez, who has her own demons and moral compass to contend with.

On top of all that's going on, you, dear Dave, through your boss, you have to take the heat from the Chamber of Commerce and other local business owner's because these folks are bringing in money from the picture being shot in the area. Morally, who cares that there are mob connections? Or maybe a murderer among them? They're bringing in money. Oh, my, Dave, another moral dilemma, back off or do your job?

Dave, you've once again taken me on a wild ride and I thank you. Your description of the beautiful and haunting area you live in, only adds to the atmosphere, dark decisioins and mood of In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead. Once again, it's been great.

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Jan 10, 2009 Kathleen Hagen added it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2007-audio-books, 2007-mysteries

In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead, by James Lee Burke. A.
Borrowed from the Library for the Blind, talking book. Available on Audible.com as well.

This is a wonderful book about Dave Robicheau in New Iberia perish. In this book he is working for the sheriff’s office. The sheriff asks him to go see a suspected mobster who originally came from New Iberia, and whom Dave had grown up with, and ask him to leave town. Then, it became known that this man was fronting the money to produce a movie...more

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Jan 14, 2011 Michael rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If I’d not been assigned to read this for my "Master Class" workshop for professional fiction writers, it is unlikely that I would have picked it up, because it is not my favorite genre.

Burke unfortunately uses much vulgarity. Most of his characters are potty-mouths, although, thankfully, the first-person narrative is not potty-mouthed. Not my cuppa tea. There was some graphic violence, which was pretty gross.

It is very well-written. It flows well, and despite a slow area in the middle, it reall...more

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Jan 04, 2013 Lynn rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I came to James Lee Burke near the more recent volumes in this series. I began with Tin Roof Blowdown.....which is a brilliant elegiac masterpiece. Faulknerian (from me that is the supreme compliment).
But recently finished this one!

If you hate any woo-woo, you will not like this book.

SPOILERS FOLLOW:

I LOVED the opening scene. I could see it in my mind! A drunk driving pull over.
I even liked (maybe not loved, but give me some time) the whole "Dave can see dead people" thing.

A small-ISH critici...more

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May 26, 2012 Michael rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: crime

"In The Electric Mist" is the movie base on JLBs book, starring Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, and Mary Steenbergen. Have no idea if the movie is fair or not but figured I would let the the reading public know.

JLB channels both Faulkner and JD Sallinger in his style of writing. He has his own voice to be sure but the depth of his characters and the intimacy which he brings to his novels is far more than many of his peers.

New Iberia, Bayou Teche, and the Atchafalaya Swamp are characters in his bo...more

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Jul 25, 2011 Lorin Cary rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This 1993 novel features Dave Robicheaux, a recovering alcoholic and former New Orleans police officer now serving as a detective in his home town of New Iberia. When a movie company descends on the town, it stirs up more than just curiosity. Mafia ties to a producer who attended high school with Dave, the uncovering of a decades-old murder and the murder of two women provide plenty of action. What lifts Burke's writing above the ordinary is his marvelous dialogue, gift of setting and the authen...more

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Nov 24, 2009 Dan Kearns rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-crime-noir-pulp, mystery-sub-detective-in-a-series

Burke is such a mystery to me. A man that can write as well as anyone I know on the truest nature of time and place (and they are the only things that really matter). And, just as much, he knows that the root of the human condition is suffering. But why, then, does he not spot that the baby boomer bullshit, the Revolution of '68, may have had decent roots but was off the rails almost immediately? The leftist tics and concerns just dont make any sense to me coming from him, someone so otherwise g...more

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Aug 14, 2009 TBML rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: branigan-book-club, mark-picks, mystery-and-suspense

This was the Branigan BookClub selection for June 2005.

This one sizzles and crackles with both potential and kinetic energy and excitement! Ever since I listened to it years ago, In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead has long been one of my favorite books. I can easily understand how it would be included in a collection of James Lee Burke's best.

In this, the sixth Dave Robicheaux novel, a Civil War movie is being made in New Iberia LA. The star of the movie, in a bid to avoid a drunk drivin...more

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Jan 17, 2010 Adam rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: heart-of-darkness, noir

The best Dave Robicheaux so far. Almost too much of a good thing. Too much of Dave’s brooding and too much sensory overload in the prose. But too much of good thing is still a lot of a good thing. The plot is bit more of a procedural but the mystery is good, the villain heinous and the magical realism/supernatural elements push this into what it is, a meditation of the south and its history of violence.(Civil war, civil rights era lynchings, and the squalid presence of Angola prison) Great chara...more

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Apr 28, 2009 Lorna rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have read all of his novels. I have even read his daughters first novel, she is called Alafair, the name of Dave Robicheaux's daughter in the books! I have watched his writing mature to its present gravitas. Early on, I admit, I used to rush through his descriptive passages but as he wrote, these became more and more beautiful, and now the darkness of the crimes and violence are melded with the beauty of the landscape. In this book, the psychic element was introduced in an historical invocatio...more

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Dec 30, 2008 Mikel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

My first James Lee Burke novel and, having read all of them now, still probably my favorite. It demonstrates Burke's trademark style beautifully. James Lee Burke writes by combining the very gritty reality with a poetic romanticism of the mystical and historical Louisiana. The resulting gumbo makes it occasionally hard to determine the real from the imagined, which is pitch perfect considering the protagonist's viewpoint is that of a reluctant alcoholic. Picture a combination of the magical real...more

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Feb 24, 2013 Mary Beth rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I picked up this book because I just saw the movie "In the Electric Mist" with Tommy Lee Jones, and although the movie was flawed, the story was really good. I am hopeful that the original will meet my expectations(it certainly seems to be part of a well-loved series!)

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Despite my duties as Mommy during school vacation week, I finished the book and I loved it. It was indeed much better then the movie, but the voices of the talented actors in the film(Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsga...more

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Oct 19, 2010 Phyllis rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Apr 12, 2010 Barbra rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the 6th in the Robicheaux series and once again a good thriller. Burke is a fine crime writer - very imaginative and powerful.

Back Cover Blurb:
When a movie crew arrives in New Iberia to shoot a Civil War epic Detective Dave Robicheaux find that it's not just the bayou's living inhabitants who are being disturbed. As he hunts a sadistic killer targeting young prositutes, evidence of an earlier murder is brought to light. The skeletal remains are the last echo of a crime Robicheaux himself...more

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May 23, 2012 Kevin Bresnahan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A good entry from Burke. A Civil War movie is being filmed in New Iberia, and one of its stars is found murdered. A former resident, known for his Mafia like tactics, is funding the movie and is considered a suspect, according to Dave Robseuix (forgive the misspelling). Dave investigates, and as usual, gets himself in trouble with politics and his inquistive ways. The twists and turns are solid, and somewhat unexpected. I definitely enjoy Burke's style of description and character development. T...more

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Sep 03, 2007 A. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2006, fiction, mystery, books-about-the-south

Burke's best Dave Robicheaux novel, IMHO.

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Jun 26, 2012 Steve Sarrica rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Burke is the master of description, his turns of phrase often poetic. The poetry is a harsh contrast to the broken lives and desperate acts usually portrayed in his works. Once again, Dave Robicheaux is in the midst of a series of horrific crimes and is busy pushing the edge to solve them while retaining some semblance of his own humanity. The Robicheaux novels aren't for everyone (Mom begged off party way through the first), but for those who stay, Burke's and Robicheaux's journeys are a fantas...more

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May 12, 2013 Mary Curry rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Mary by: Ed

Spot on! Burke is a master of place. When reading one of his books you can smell the dankness of Bayou Teche and feel the mosquito bites. His characters are well drawn, even if most of them are unsavory. In this book, he added more of a whisper of the supernatural. It isn't just his intuition that's helping Dave identify the psychopathic killer from the several plausible candidates while battling his personal demons, a Confederate general encourages him over the rough patches, points him in the...more

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Aug 14, 2009 Mark rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: branigan-book-club, 2005, historical-fiction, mark-picks, mystery-and-suspense, paranormal-and-occult, southern-fiction

This was the Branigan BookClub selection for June 2005.

This one sizzles and crackles with both potential and kinetic energy and excitement! Ever since I listened to it years ago, IN THE ELECTRIC MIST WITH CONFEDERATE DEAD has long been one of my favorite books. I can easily understand how it would be included in a collection of James Lee Burke's best.

In this, the sixth Dave Robicheaux novel, a Civil War movie is being made in New Iberia LA. The star of the movie, in a bid to avoid a drunk drivin...more

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May 03, 2008 rabbitprincess rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: fans of lush, rich writing; those who enjoy Southern mysteries

Recommended to rabbitprincess by: English prof (and I'm glad she did!)

Shelves: mystery-fiction-fall-2005, school, 2005

I recall reading once that James Lee Burke has been described as "the Faulkner of crime fiction". I hate Faulkner more than the Hatfields hated the McCoys, but I love James Lee Burke, thanks to this book.

The story has deep roots in the past: several crimes committed in the New Orleans area are connected to a heinous murder thirty years previous. As Robicheaux investigates the crimes, he starts having visions of Confederate soldiers whose leader provides Robicheaux with oracular pronouncements th...more

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Nov 17, 2007 Michael rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: crime-suspense-mystery

I first read James Lee Burke's fiction in the Esquire magazine and admired his ability to weave such great detail about setting and character into such fast-paced stories.

This novel was no different from that short story in this respect. Burke's Louisiana breathes. The bayous belch. You can smell the flowering trees, the rancid corpses of nutria rotting in gutters. You can see the grime on the clapboard houses, the sweat glistening on every character's skin. You can hear the E major blues progr...more I first read James Lee Burke's fiction in the Esquire magazine and admired his ability to weave such great detail about setting and character into such fast-paced stories.

This novel was no different from that short story in this respect. Burke's Louisiana breathes. The bayous belch. You can smell the flowering trees, the rancid corpses of nutria rotting in gutters. You can see the grime on the clapboard houses, the sweat glistening on every character's skin. You can hear the E major blues progression of Sam "Pigman" Patin. And most importantly, you can feel the temperature, the hangovers, the headaches of Burke's New Iberia Parish. I won't go on any longer about this, but it's definitely the most intriguing, and important aspect of this novel. Contemporary crime fiction works best when its novelty lies less in the twists and turns and cleverness of its plot (Come on, everything under the sun has already been done.) and more in the vividness of its setting and characters.

So, on to the characters... As I've found with much crime fiction, the least understandable, least developed characters are the narrator and those closest to him or her. Dave Robicheaux, though he shows the reader a clear morality in each of his actions, doesn't have a face or personality the way some of the more minor characters do. Take Elrod Sykes - an actor starring in a movie being filmed in New Iberia Parish. His alcoholism, his tanned skin, the shirts he wears, the way his speaks, paint a picture of man battered down, but strong.

Robicheaux's morality poses the only problem I have with this novel. The defining moment of Burke's themes justice and heroism occurs at the end of the novel when Robicheaux sheds the constraints of his badge and takes matters into his own hands, going quite beyond the law, destroying the bad guys sure, but destroying them illegally. Burke cheaply has someone else pull the trigger in the end, but Robicheaux's moral force has set the events in motion that lead to the cowboy-style climax.

There's much more to this novel than I've mentioned - Civil War history, racial tension, music, organized crime. Burke takes advantage of Robicheaux's trip into New Orleans to craft an amazing passage describing the French Quarter. I don't think I'd have understood the neighborhood any better if I had been there.

Burke is a great writer. He might be a conservative cavalier cowboy, but he can write a damn good book.
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Aug 08, 2012 Judy Sanders rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I found Neon Rain in a bookstore for the used in the mid-90s. Why hadn't anyone told me what a fantastic writer James Lee Burke was? Had to go find him for myself. The only book of his I haven't read of Dave Robiceaux is his next to last one. I was afraid he'd finally kill off Clete. Didn't want to know.
In The Electric Mist ... has been my favorite for years. Mr. Burke juggled all his worries, plus added fascinating men in the mist. Just a great read. It's on my top ten favorites list.

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Feb 08, 2013 Michael rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books-into-film, collectible, mystery, own-it, signed-edition, 100-reading-club-mike-draper, action-thriller, family-relationships

This is a story that does a good job in showing Det. Dave Robicheaux's compassion and dedication to his job. Written a number of years ago, it's certainly worth another look.

As the story opens, there has been a murder of a nineteen-year-old prostitute. In addition, one of Dave's childhood acquaintances moves back into town. Julie Balboni played baseball with Dave and is now a mob figure. He wants to be involved in a movie about the Civil War being filmed in town. The sheriff wants Dave to encour...more

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Sep 29, 2012 Mark rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: american-novels

I don’t know how good he is in his other books, but in this one, James Lee Burke literally wrote up a storm. His descriptions of settings are ample but not too long, and show a keen eye and superb ability to let another see the setting through his writing. The dialogue is equally strong. And both give you just enough of a sense of what is not said that it carries you along to the climax set in the aftermath of a Louisiana hurricane. Good stuff.

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Jul 31, 2012 Bill Mazzola rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Easily my favorite in the series so far. I don't think any other writer I've encountered can pair sudden and brutal violence with such eloquent, beautiful descriptive prose like Burke can. His writing really makes be feel like I've lived my whole life in louisiana.

Robicheaux continues to be a wonderfully flawed hero with a moral compass that isn't quite right. Such an incredibly interesting protagonist. Looking forward to the next one.

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Jul 14, 2012 Martha rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I first learned about the Dave Robicheaux mysteries from my sister, who was out west on a trip and met someone who told her he was reading a mystery about New Iberia--where I was living at the time! I have subsequently read all of this series, some of them twice. Burke excels at capturing the essence of small town Southern Louisiana, while exposing the dark underbelly of Southern culture at the same time.

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James Lee Burke is an American author best known for his mysteries, particularly the Dave Robicheaux series. He has twice received the Edgar Award for Best Novel, for Black Cherry Blues in 1990 and Cimarron Rose in 1998.

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