Burke, James Lee
Summary: The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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Summary: "Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2022
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Summary: "Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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Summary: Interviewing an alcoholic Native American who witnessed a murder along the Texas-Mexican border, Sheriff Hackberry Holland and his deputy, Pam Tibbs, recognize the work of serial killer Preacher Jack Collins in an investigation that is assisted by the enigmatic Anton Ling.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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Summary: Central to Burke's second Billy Bob novel (Cimarron Rose was his first) is Wilbur Pickett. Wilbur had a brief moment of glory as a rodeo cowboy before sliding into a downward cycle of luckless enterprises. He ends up laboring for a wealthy family, the Dietrichs, in the Texas town of Deaf Smith. The Dietrichs accuse Wilbur of stealing some bearer bonds, and Billy Bob--now a defense...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1999
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Summary: Intervening when he sees the beautiful and gifted Valerie Epstein fighting with her boyfriend, Aaron Holland Broussard inadvertently challenges the power of the Mob in his Korean War-era Texas community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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Summary: Lonely and brooding, Dave has lost his moorings. His wife, Bootsy, is dead, and his daughter is away at college. When a parish priest asks him to help a family in need, Dave discovers that they hold the clues to a decades-old mystery: the disappearance of blues legend Junior Crudup while he was serving time in Angola prison. Soon, Dave's investigation leads him to confront New Iberia's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2013
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Summary: When Hackberry Holland became sheriff of a tiny Texas town near the Mexican border, he'd hoped to leave certain things behind: his checkered reputation, his haunted dreams, and his obsessive memories of the good life with his late wife, Rie. But the discovery of the bodies of nine illegal aliens, machine-gunned to death and buried in a shallow grave behind a church, soon makes it clear that he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2009
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Summary: "Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. From the acts he committed in Vietnam, to his battles with alcoholism, to the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next. Images of ghosts pepper his reality. Robicheaux's only beacon remains serving as a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana. It's in that capacity that Robicheaux crosses paths with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing Large Print 2018
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Summary: "WAYFARING STRANGER begins in West Texas in 1934. At age sixteen, Weldon Holland encounters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker traveling with their accomplices after having just pulled off one of their notorious armed robberies. Weldon is smitten by Bonnie, but because of Clyde and Bonnie's duplicity and the disrespect they show his grandfather, Weldon ends up putting a bullet through the rear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2007
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Summary: When last seen in The Glass Rainbow, the previous book in the Dave Robicheaux series, Robicheaux was recovering in a New Orleans hospital from a near-fatal bullet wound. Immobilized and heavily medicated by morphine, he was visited there by a beautiful Creole woman named Tee Jolie Melton. After she's gone, his fond, hazy remembrances of her are rekindled by one song, "Creole Belle" on the iPod...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 2013
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Summary: Returning to his Louisiana hometown to investigate a murder, detective Dave Robicheaux finds his skills pushed to their limits when his best friend is accused and his daughter becomes involved in shady business dealings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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Summary: "After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Hackberry escapes the country in possession of a stolen artifact, earning the ire of a bloodthirsty Austrian arms dealer who then places Hack's son Ishmael squarely in the cross hairs of a plot to recapture his prize, believed to be the mythic cup of Christ. Along the way, we meet three extraordinary women: Ruby Dansen, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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Summary: After moving his family west to Montana, Billy Bob Holland, the former Texas Ranger, hung out a shingle for his law practice. But he soon discovers that jail cells have revolving doors and that the government he had sworn to serve may have become his enemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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Summary: Five separate mysteries featuring detective Dave Robicheaux.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2006
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Summary: When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, the victim of a particularly savage rape, New Iberia, Louisiana police detective Dave Robicheaux senses from the very start of the investigation that the most likely suspect-- Tee Bobby Hulin-- is not the actual killer. Though a drug addict and general ne'er-do-well, Hulin doesn't fit the profile for this brutal crime. But when another body turns up-- a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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Summary: Recently paroled from prison for manslaughter, Korean War veteran Iry Paret settles in with fellow ex-convict Buddy Riordan and Riordan's family on a sprawling ranch in Montana. Iry becomes drawn into a tragic conflict involving Buddy, his wife, and their neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 1986
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Summary: Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood director. Twenty-five years later, when Robicheaux knocks on Cormier's door, it isn't to congratulate him on his Golden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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Summary: Robicheaux has lived through much inner turmoil and seen too much of man's dark side to believe that there are any surprises left for him in this world. But then the devastation brought by Hurruicane Katrina seems to make a wreck of his sould even as it pummels New Orleans. In the aftermath, two black men are murdered in the ninth ward--and Robicheaux refuses to allow another injustice to pile...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2007
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005