'Burning of the Flag'
A short story from one of the country's most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, Jesus Out to Sea.
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'Narrenes fest'
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 pa sammenbruddets rand. Det samme kan siges om Hackberry Holland, der stadig
'Purple Cane Road'
Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass onto the son. But what has his mother's legacy left him? Dead to him since youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Dave's
'Another Kind of Eden'
New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-fi
'Every Cloak Rolled In Blood'
In his most autobiographical novel to date, James Lee Burke continues the epic Holland family saga with a writer grieving the death of his daughter while battling earthly and supernatural outlaws. Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his dau
'The Tin Roof Blowdown'
'His most gripping thriller to date.' Mirror Hurricane Katrina has transformed New Orleans into a violent wasteland. Criminals capitalise on the devastation as survivors wait for help that never comes. David Robicheaux - his city in ruins -- is ta
'In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead'
The sixth Dave Robicheaux novel from SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author James Lee Burke. Hunting a sadistic killer who targets young prostitutes, Detective Dave Robicheaux has no mind to be sidetracked into persuading ex-schoolmate mobster Julie 'Baby Fe
'Sunset Limited'
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. Partic
'Purple Cane Road'
'When James Lee Burke writes, the little birdies sing, the sun comes out and old men learn to dance again. That's how good he is. And now he's back . . . Purple Cane Road may be the finest novel Burke has written' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 
'Jolie Blon's Bounce'
Three men are present when Amanda Boudreau is raped and murdered and small-time hustler Tee Bobby Hulin's prints are found at the crime scene. Dave Robicheaux reckons he's innocent, and Tee Bobby pleads so, then attempts suicide in his holding cel
'Last Car To Elysian Fields'
'A lyrical and lovely novel that takes Burke back to the top of the crimewriting tree where he richly belongs' Independent On Sunday It is a rainy late-summer's night in New Orleans. Detective Dave Robicheaux is about to confront the man who m
'In The Moon of Red Ponies'
A fourth novel featuring former Texas Ranger turned lawyer turned crime fighter, Billy Bob Holland, set in the savage and beautiful landscape of Montana. Wyatt Dixon, rodeo cowboy and 'the most dangerous, depraved, twisted and unpredictable human I ev
'A Stained White Radiance'
The fifth gripping novel in the highly acclaimed Dave Robicheaux series. A bullet shot through the window of Weldon Sonnier's house propels Dave Robicheaux back into the lives of a family he's not sure he wants to be reacquainted with ... Weldon S
'The Neon Rain'
The outstanding first book in the ever-popular Dave Robicheaux series. Introducing the New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux. Johnny Massina, a convicted murderer bound for the electric chair, has warned Dave Robicheaux that he's on somebody's hit
'Crusader's Cross'
America's most acclaimed crime writer returns to Louisiana with one of the best-loved detectives in fiction, Dave Robicheaux. In the summer of 1958, Dave Robicheaux and his half-brother Jimmie are just out of high school. Jimmie and Dave get work with
'Pegasus Descending'
A superb Dave Robicheaux mystery from the multi award-winning crime writer. Dave Robicheaux left his drinking days behind him many years ago, but he still feels guilt over a tragic event he wasn't sober enough to prevent. Dallas Klein, a gambling addi
'Swan Peak'
'With its trademark mix of brutality and poetry, Swan Peak is a brilliant piece of work from an American master.' Observer After the devastating events recounted in THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN, Dave Robicheaux and his ex-partner in Homicide, Clete Purce
'The Glass Rainbow'
Dave Robicheaux is on the trail of a serial killer, while trying to protect his daughter from a boyfriend with a dark side, in the eighteenth novel in James Lee Burke's classic series. When Dave Robicheaux gets the call saying his ex-partner Clete Pur
'Flags on the Bayou'
A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana, as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters-enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers-are caught in the maelstrom. In the fall of 1863, the Union Army
'Clete'
In the latest Robicheaux novel, Clete Purcel - veteran, private investigator, and former New Orleans cop - takes centre stage for the first time. **** Clete Purcel - private investigator, ex-member of the New Orleans Police Department, and war veteran wit
'Don't Forget Me, Little Bessie'
Bestselling author James Lee Burke tells his most thrilling and insightful story yet through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Bessie Holland **** At the turbulent beginning of the twentieth century, fourteen-year-old Bessie Holland longs for a love that she
'The Hadacol Boogie'
When a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux's property, he knows his world and family are about to change. With Valerie Benoit, a detective new to the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Department who is grappling w
'Creole Belle'
A novel in the Dave Robicheaux series, acclaimed as 'one of the wonders of American crime fiction' (MAIL ON SUNDAY) 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 co
'Black Cherry Blues'
The third highly acclaimed novel in the Dave Robicheaux series, and winner of the Edgar award. Personal tragedy has left Dave Robicheaux close to the edge. Battling against his old addiction to alcohol and haunted nightly by vivid dreams and visitations,
'Dixie City Jam'
The 7th Dave Robicheaux novel from Sunday Times bestselling author James Lee Burke When a Nazi submarine is discovered lying in sixty feet of water off the Louisiana coast some troubled ghosts are ready to be released. A local businessman is offering Dete
'Cadillac Jukebox'
The 9th Dave Robicheaux novel from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling, award-winning author of THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN. The call from ex-Klansman Aaron Crown couldn't have been more unexpected. Sentenced to forty years for the decades-old shooting of a civil
'Burning Angel'
The 8th Dave Robicheaux novel from SUNDAY TIMES bestselling and award-winning author James Lee Burke. Sonny Boy Marsallas, a New Orleans street hustler, entrusts Detective Dave Robicheaux with a mysterious notebook, kicking off a series of violent inciden
'Light of the World'
James Lee Burke's legendary detective Dave Robicheaux returns to try to save his daughter from a sadistic killer. When Detective Dave Robicheaux's daughter, Alafair, declares her intention to interview a convicted serial killer called Asa Surette,
'Robicheaux'
'James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed.' Michael Connelly ROBICHEAUX IS A HAUNTED MAN. Detective Dave Robicheaux's beloved wife, Molly, was cruelly take
'The New Iberia Blues'
Detective Dave Robicheaux first met Desmond Cormier on the backstreets of New Orleans. He was a young pretender who dreamt of stardom whilst Robicheaux had his path all figured out. Now, twenty-five years later, their roles have reversed. When Robicheaux
'A Private Cathedral'
Detective Dave Robicheaux is caught in the crossfire of Louisiana's oldest and bloodiest gangland feud... From the wreckage of Louisiana's oldest and family rivalry, Detective Dave Robicheaux faces his most sinister enemy yet . . . Isolde and John
'Narrenes fest'
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 s
'Creole belle'
I "Creole Belle" ligger Dave Robischeaux på en hospitalsseng et sted i New Orleans, hvor han forsøger at komme sig efter et skudsår. En ung sangerinde ved navn Tee Jolie Melton dukker op ved hans sengekant med en Dr. Pepper, en iPod fyldt med si
'En skjult katedral'
Burke er en uomgængelig stemme, hvis man vil forstå USA, som det er i dag. Hans forfatterskab er en seismologisk skildring af et Amerika i forfald Kriminalbetjent Dave Robicheaux får forvildet sig i skudlinjen mellem to ældgamle mafiaslægter, der er fastl
'Blues fra bliktagene'
I de sidste sommerdage i 2005 skræller en storm overfladen af det sydlige Louisiana. Dette er den grufulde virkelighed, som kriminalbetjent ved Iberia kommunes sherif-kontor Dave Robicheaux må forholde sig til, da han bliver forflyttet til New Orleans. Da
'Verdens lys'
Den sadistiske seriemorder, Asa Surette, undgik på et hængende hår at blive tildelt dødsstraffen mens kapitalstraf var ulovligt i Kansas. Efter Dave Robincheaux's datter Alafair udgav en række inkriminerende artikler om ham, lykkes det Surette at stik
'Clete'
In the latest installment in his famous Detective Dave Robicheaux series, New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings Dave's partner and friend Clete Purcel to the forefront for the first time as Clete and Dave attempt to stop ruthless sm
'Don't Forget Me, Little Bessie'
A CRIMEREADS BEST BOOK OF 2025 Bestselling author James Lee Burke tells his most thrilling and insightful story yet through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Bessie Holland At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human an
'Jesus på dybt vand'
«Louisiana er ikke en stat. Det er et tredjeverdens land,» har James Lee Burke sagt, og det var før, orkanen Katrina satte ind og blæste hans hjemstat sønder og sammen. Burkes længe ventede behandling af ødelæggelserne i Louisiana og Mississippi under og
'Heaven's Prisoners'
James Lee Burke's second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou as he seeks a quieter life.Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective's badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New O
'Don't Forget Me, Little Bessie'
Bestselling author James Lee Burke tells his most thrilling and insightful story yet through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Bessie Holland **** At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human and natural violence more po
'The Hadacol Boogie'
'Hallucinatory, disturbing and utterly gripping ... Burke's beautiful prose never fails to grip heart and mind' Daily Mirror When a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux's property, he knows his wo
'Harbor Lights'
A story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, s
'A Stained White Radiance'
Detective Dave Robicheaux travels to the mountains of Montana to help his best friend and unearths a larger plot that threatens them both. Oil speculator Weldon Sonnier is the patriarch of a troubled family intimately bound to the CIA, the Mob, and the Kl
'The Jealous Kind'
New York Times bestselling author and "the reigning champ of nostalgia noir" ( The New York Times Book Review ) James Lee Burke returns with a powerful novel in the Holland Family series, an atmospheric coming-of-age story set in 1950s Texas, as
'House of the Rising Sun'
Bestselling author James Lee Burke's "stunning" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) masterpiece is the story of a father and son separated by war, circumstance, and a race for the Holy Grail--a thrilling entry in the Holland family saga. A
'The Lost Get-Back Boogie'
Recently paroled from prison, Iry Paret becomes drawn into a tragic conflict involving an ex-convict and their neighbors in this page-turning thriller from New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke. Iry Paret's done his time--two years for man
'Skinsygens tid'
James Lee Burke har skrevet en kærlighedsroman om tiden under Korea-krigen og den kolde krig. En roman, der kunne give forfatterskabet nye læsere. På overfladen er livet i Houston, Texas, som det plejer, med drive-in restauranter, dollargrin, jukeboxe der
'Robicheaux'
Dave Robichaux kone, Molly er død. I en trafikulykke. Trafikdræbt, mener Robicheaux. Det er tre måneder siden, og alle dæmonerne fra fortiden, alkoholismen, Vietnam-mareridtene og de tilbagevendende syner af krigen mellem sydstaterne og nordstaterne dukke
'Iberia blues'
I Iberia blues er James Lee Burkes kriminalassistent Dave Robicheaux på trods af alderen på (evig) fuldtid i Louisianas sumplande. Vi er i røgfyldte blues-barer, blandt religiøse fanatikere og blandt Hollywood-minglerer og ikke mindst i den allestedsnærvæ
'Clete'
In the latest Robicheaux novel, Clete Purcel - veteran, private investigator, and former New Orleans cop - takes centre stage for the first time. 'A testament to Burke's enduring place on the list of our greatest crime writers' THE IRISH TIMES
'The Convict And Other Stories'
A wonderful collection of 12 stories set mainly in and around the American Deep South from award-winning author James Lee Burke. For fans of James Lee Burke and Dave Robicheaux, THE CONVICT AND OTHER STORIES is a superb collection of stories set in and ar
'Harbor Lights'
A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from "America's best novelist" ( Denver Post ), the New York Times bestselling James Lee Burke Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of Ame
'A Stained White Radiance'
Caught up in the family drama involving his childhood friends, the Sonniers, Cajun sleuth Dave Robicheaux discovers that the family may be involved with the powerful Bobby Earl, a Klansman-turned-politician.
'Don't Forget Me, Little Bessie'
Bestselling author James Lee Burke tells his most thrilling and insightful story yet through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Bessie Holland At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human and natural violence more powerfu
'Robicheaux'
James Lee Burke's most beloved character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this New York Times bestselling mystery set in the towns and backwoods of Louisiana: an ';enthralling yet grim novel thatwill captivate, start to finish' (Publishers Weekly)
'New Iberia Blues'
A 2020 Audie Award FinalistNamed one of the best crime novels of the year by The New York Times Book Review.The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana i
Vejfarende fremmed
James Lee Burke skriver i bogen videre på slægtshistorien om familien Holland, en nærmest arketypisk Texas klan, hvor bedstefar Hackberry Holland i sin tid fik John Wesley Hardin op at hænge og var med i kampen mod Pancho Villas soldater. Vejfarende fremm
House of the rising sun
En western, men ikke en krimi, der skildrer udviklingen i USA fra omkring år 1900 frem til begyndelsen af 1920erne. Samtidig er det en nærmest mytisk fremstilling af forholdet mellem far og søn. Texas-ranger Hackberry Holland, og hans søn Ishmael er adski