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Dave Robicheaux returns in another Bayou adventure, this one more gruesome and gut-wrenching than any that have come before. Hurricane Katrina has ravaged New Orleans, leaving the streets and buildings flooded and the city awash with opportunists, looters, and vicious criminals. There is no order, no law. Police are shooting randomly at innocent people, prison guards have abandoned their posts, and bodies float through the streets and hang from trees.

In In the Moon of Red Ponies, Billy Bob Holland discovers that jail cells have revolving doors and the bad guys are back and aching for revenge.

A troubled young woman breezes into Detective Robicheaux's hometown of New Iberia, Louisiana. She happens to be the daughter of his friend: a friend he witnessed gunned down in a bank robbery, a tragedy that forever changed Robicheaux's life.

When Dave Robicheaux, learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan has been the victim of a particularly brutal assault, he returns to New Orleans to investigate, if only unofficially.

Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux knows the Sonnier family of New Iberia - their connections to the CIA, the mob, and to a former Klansman now running for state office. And he knows their past - as dark and murky as a night on the Louisiana bayou. An assassination attempt and the death of a cop draw Robicheaux into the Sonniers' dangerous web of madness, murder and incest. But Robicheaux has devils of his own. And they've come out of hiding to destroy the tormented investigator - and the people he holds most dear.

Return to James Lee Burke's "timeless, parallel universe" with detective Dave Robicheaux, as he investigates the murders of two women, tries to prove one man's innocence, and faces an enemy unlike any he has ever known. Gothic, dense, brutal, touching, and always compelling, Jolie Blon's Bounce is classic storytelling from a writer who has been dubbed "the Faulkner of crime fiction."

Critically acclaimed and best-selling crime writer James Lee Burke returns to Louisiana where his ever-popular hero, Dave Robicheaux, sleuths his way through a hotbed of sin and uncertainty.

Dave Robicheaux has never known what happened to his mother. He is stunned when a pimp looks at him sideways and asks if he is the son of Mae Guillory, the whore a bunch of cops murdered thirty years ago. Her body was dumped in the bayou bordering Purple Cane Road, and the cops who left her there are still on the job. Dave's search for his mother's killer leads him to the darker places in his past, and solving this case teaches him what it means to be his mother's son.

Detective Dave Robicheaux becomes entangled in the affairs of the Fontenot family, descendants of sharecroppers whose matriarch helped raise Dave as a child. They are in danger of losing the land they've lived on for more than a century. As Dave tries to discover who wants the land so badly, he finds himself in increasing peril from a lethal, rag tag alliance of local mobsters and a hired assassin with a shady past.

General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented by the fear that history would pass him by, who was plagued by personal debts, and who lived much of his life separated from his family.

Die Warnung kommt aus der Todeszelle. "Passen Sie auf", sagt kurz vor seiner Exekution ein Mafia-Killer dem Polizisten Dave Robicheaux von der Mordkommission in New Orleans, "die Kolumbianer wollen Ihren Kopf." Und prompt muss Robicheaux wieder an das tote schwarze Mädchen denken, das er jüngst aus einem Tümpel gezogen hat.

Auf den Hinweis eines anonymen Anrufers hin, gräbt Sheriff Hackberry Holland hinter einer verlassenen Kirche die Leichen von neun Frauen aus, notdürftig mit einem Bulldozer plattgewalzt. Es handelt sich dem Anschein nach um illegale Einwanderer aus Asien, die in Texas nahe der mexikanischen Grenze als Prostituierte arbeiteten. Bei der Suche nach dem Anrufer gerät Holland mit Isaac Clawson von der Einwanderungs- und Zollfahndungsbehörde ICE aneinander. Nach dem Mord an seiner Tochter ist er auf seinem eigenen Rachefeldzug.

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.

Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective's badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of the Louisiana bayou. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life - and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception and homegrown crime.

Tsunamien Katrina har ramt det sydlige Louisiana og New Orleans med fuld hammer. Med større kraft end den bombe, der faldt over Hiroshima. Kriminalbetjent Dave Robicheaux holder normalt til i New Iberia, i omegnen af New Orleans, men de sidste sommerdage i 2005 bliver han rykket tilbage, hvor han kom fra, til New Orleans. Det er ikke nogen nostalgisk hjemkomst, der venter ham. Befolkningen har evakueret sig selv, myndighederne er sat skakmat eller er fraværende.

Lovens lange arm er aldrig lang nok i den lille sydvestlige grænseby i Texas, hvor Hackberry Holland er sat til at sørge for lov og orden. USA og ikke mindst Texas synes at være på sammenbruddets rand. Det samme kan siges om Hackberry Holland, der stadig er i sorg over tabet af sin elskede hustru. Han har rodet sig ud i en farefuld romance med sin vicesheriff, Pam Tibbs. Hackberry Holland fungerer som ondskabens magnet i ørkenens grænseland, måske i forsøget på at holde sine egne dæmoner i skak.

En western, der skildrer udviklingen i USA fra omkring år 1900 frem til begyndelsen af 1920’erne. Samtidig er det en nærmest mytisk fremstilling af forholdet mellem far og søn. Den farverige roman bevæger sig fra Mexico til San Antonio's bordeller og saloner og er en fortælling om kærlighed og tab, forræderi, hævn og gengældelse.

Danny Boy Lorca ist das Entsetzen ins Gesicht geschrieben, als er sich ins Büro von Sheri Hackberry Holland schleppt. In der Wüste nahe der texanisch-mexikanischen Grenze wurde er Zeuge eines brutalen Mordes. Von einem zweiten Gefangenen fehlt jede Spur. Hackberry Holland hat erneut alle Hände voll zu tun, um für Gerechtigkeit zu sorgen.

After finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana’s oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin.

15 thriller masters. 1 masterful thriller! Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frederic Chopin. But he is unaware that, within it's handwritten notes, lies a secret that now threatens the lives of thousands of Americans. As he races from Poland to the U.S. to uncover the mystery of the manuscript, Middleton will be accused of murder, pursued by federal agents, and targeted by assassins.