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The tenth Robicheaux mystery, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award.

Megan and Cisco Flynn are back in town. Nobody had ever been caught for the Klan murder of their father, Jack, and Detective Dave Robicheaux knows that trouble cannot be far behind. Particularly when the Flynns get mixed up with the case of a small-time hustler named Cool Breeze Broussard.

As the Flynns find themselves deeper and deeper in trouble, Robicheaux is trying to keep Cool Breeze alive. Something ties Breeze to the Flynns, and all three of them to local plantation magnate Archer Terrebonne. Something long past is poisoning all their lives, bringing death in its wake...

Praise for one of the great American crime writers, James Lee Burke:

'James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed.' Michael Connelly

'A gorgeous prose stylist.' Stephen King

'Richly deserves to be described now as one of the finest crime writers America has ever produced.' Daily Mail

Fans of Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly and Don Winslow will love James Lee Burke:

Dave Robicheaux Series

1. The Neon Rain
2. Heaven's Prisoners
3. Black Cherry Blues
4. A Morning for Flamingos
5. A Stained White Radiance
6. In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead
7. Dixie City Jam
8. Burning Angel
9. Cadillac Jukebox
10. Sunset Limited
11. Purple Cane Road
12. Jolie Blon's Bounce
13. Last Car to Elysian Fields
14. Crusader's Cross
15. Pegasus Descending
16. The Tin Roof Blowdown
17. Swan Peak
18. The Glass Rainbow
19. Creole Belle
20. Light of the World
21. Robicheaux

Hackberry Holland Series

1. Lay Down My Sword and Shield
2. Rain Gods
3. Feast Day of Fools
4. House of the Rising Sun

Billy Bob Holland Series

1. Cimarron Rose
2. Heartwood
3. Bitterroot
4. In The Moon of Red Ponies

* Each James Lee Burke novel can be read as a standalone or in series order *

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Review:
James Lee Burke's rural Louisiana cop, Dave Robicheaux, is a haunted man--haunted by his past in Vietnam and the New Orleans Vice Department; but also haunted, sometimes literally, by the ghosts of bad faith and betrayal that pervade his backwater beat. Burke has a seemingly endless ability to make the return of chickens to their roost seem new each time. This is partly because of his real understanding of the power structures of Louisiana crime and politics and partly because the dry alcoholic Robicheaux convincingly inhabits an interior moral universe in which all actions have consequences and there will always be some sort of payback, even after decades.

Labour organiser Flynn was crucified by the Klan when Robicheaux was a child; photographer Megan Flynn and her director brother Cisco are back in town and have not forgotten a thing. Other troubles are also brewing--the FBI is trying to pressure a black thief into turning on the Mafia dons he has successfully defrauded by leaving him in the hands of a corrupt and brutal local jailer, and, incongruously, two rednecks are wanted for the vigilante killing of the unconvicted white rapists of a black teenager. Robicheaux scents disaster, and as usual, is underestimating the situation's potential.

Winner of the CWA Macallan 1998 Gold Dagger Award for Fiction, Sunset Limited is written with depth and elegance, and Robicheaux is one of the most engaging investigators in the business. --Roz Kaveney

Review:
James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed. (Michael Connelly)

A gorgeous prose stylist. (Stephen King)

Richly deserves to be described now as one of the finest crime writers America has ever produced. (Daily Mail)

The gentle giant of US crime writers, Burke always ensures that his Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux grapples with hot topics as much as with his own inner demons. (i newspaper)

There are not many crime writers about whom one might invoke the name of Zola for comparison, but Burke is very much in that territory. His stamping ground is the Gulf coast, and one of the great strengths of his work has always been the atmospheric background of New Orleans and the bayous. His big, baggy novels are always about much more than the mechanics of the detective plot; his real subject, like the French master, is the human condition, seen in every situation of society. (Independent)

The king of Southern noir. (Daily Mirror)

His lyrical prose, his deep understanding of what makes people behave as they do, and his control of plot and pace are masterly. (Sunday Telegraph)

One of the finest American writers. (Guardian)

When it comes to literate, pungently characterised American crime writing, James Lee Burke has few peers. (Daily Express)

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  • PublisherIsland Books
  • Publication date1999
  • ISBN 10 0440223989
  • ISBN 13 9780440223986
  • BindingMass Market Paperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages416
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