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21) Crusader's Cross
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 14
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"Crime writer James Lee Burke returns to Louisiana where his hero, Dave Robicheaux, sleuths his way through a hotbed of sin and uncertainty. For Dave, life in Louisiana is filled with haunting memories of the past - images from Vietnam, the violent streets of New Orleans, and his own troubled youth. In Crusader's Cross, a deathbed confession from an old schoolmate resurrects a story of injustice, the murder of a young woman, and a time in Robicheaux's...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 18
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Seven young women in Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. Whille the crimes have all the telltale signs of a serial killer, the death of Bernadette Latiolais, a high school honor student, doesn;t fit: she is not the kind of marginalized victim psychopaths usually prey upon. Dave Robicheaux and his best friend, Clete Purcel, confront Herman Stanga, a notorious pimp and crack dealer whom both men despise. When Stanga turns up dead shortly...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 4
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
Dave Robicheaux tracks the convict who escaped after shooting him.
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Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 4
Pub. Date
1991, c1990
Description
Back on the police force following the on-duty death of his partner and his own critical wounding, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux trails a killer into the heart of New Orleans and confronts his own deepest fears
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Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 20
Pub. Date
2013.
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Serial killer Asa Surette avoids the death penalty for murders he committed while capital punishment was banned. But when Robicheaux's daughter Alafair writes a series of articles implicating Surrette in other murders which could get him death, he decides to escape prison and make her pay. Can Robicheaux save his daughter?
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 5
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
As the murder of a local cop draws him into the painful conflicts of a bayou family, sadistic villains and interior demons plague Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux in this satisfying novel of suspense.
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Pub. Date
p2005
Description
Her name may or may not have been Ida Durbin. It was back in the innocent days of the 1950s when Robicheaux and his brother, Jimmie, met her on a Galveston beach. She was pretty and Jimmie fell for her hard--not knowing she was a prostitute on infamous Post Office Street, with ties to the mob. Then Ida was abducted and never seen again. Now, decades later, Robicheaux is asking questions about Ida Durbin, and a couple of redneck deputy sheriffs make...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 18
Pub. Date
p2010
Description
Beloved Burke hero Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to New Iberia to solve a series of grisly murders.