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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenaged Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooming young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2002], c1987
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 14
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
483 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unemployed, his wife dead, his daughter in college, Robicheaux rejoins the New Iberia, La., sheriff's department at the urging of Sheriff Helen Soileau, who needs an extra hand as the murders mount. While the tendrils of the sometimes rambling plot unfold, Robicheaux and his impulsive former police partner, PI Clete Purcell, seek retribution for injustices caused by a wide range of corrupt villains.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 16
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. The power grid of the city has been destroyed, New Orleans...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 7
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The search for a forgotten Nazi submarine sunk off the coast of New Orleans puts detective Dave Robicheaux and his family in serious danger.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 6
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni arrives back in town, this time as co-producer on a Hollywood movie set, Lt. Dave Robicheaux is convinced the mobster is linked to a series of brutal murders of young prostitutes and embarks on an investigation peppered with mob money, violence, and ghostly encounters in the Louisiana swamps.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 13
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
335 p. : 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Robicheaux investigates a car crash that ended the lives of three teenage girls, a case that is compromised by a grief-crazed father, a psychologically unbalanced assassin, and a cache of dangerous secrets.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown & Co
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Ex-cop Dave Robicheaux: his wife has been murdered and now they're after his little girl. From the Louisiana bayou to Montana's tribal lands, he's running from the bottle, a homicide rap, a professional killer . . . and the demons of his past.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux volume 9
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
458 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dave Robicheaux is warned to stay away from the case of Aaron Crown -- a man accused of murdering a famous civil rights leader--which only reinforces his feelings that Crown, an undeniably easy man to hate, has been made a scapegoat.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 8
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux defends a local family whose land is being repossessed he finds himself in danger at the hands of local mobsters and a hired assassin.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 18
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
433 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dave Robicheaux is back in New Iberia, Louisiana, and embroiled in the most harrowing and dangerous case of his career. Seven young women in neighboring Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. While 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 hapless and marginalized victim psychopaths usually prey upon. Robicheaux and his...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2002, c1988
Physical Desc
308 ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dave Robicheaux is trying to put a life of violence and crime behind him, leaving homicide to run a boat-rental business in Louisiana's bayou country. But when a two-engine plane crashes in the Gulf he is drawn into a chilling and terrifying investigation.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 17
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Swan Peak finds Detective Robicheaux far from his New Iberia roots, attempting to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montanta. He, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcell have retreated to stay at an old friend's ranch, hoping to spend their days fishing and enjoying their distance from the harsh, gritty landscape of Louisiana post-Katrina. But the serenity is soon shattered when two college students are found brutally murdered in the hills...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 15
Language
English
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Description
Detective Dave Robicheaux is facing the most painful and dangerous case of his career. A troubled young woman breezes into his hometown of New Iberia, Louisiana. She happens to be the daughter of Robicheaux's onetime best friend--a friend he witnessed gunned down in a bank robbery, a tragedy that forever changed Robicheaux's life. The twists begin when Trish Klein--the only offspring of Robicheaux's Vietnam-era buddy--starts passing marked hundred-dollar...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 10
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Dave Robicheaux, investigating a tip about abuse at the local jail, lands in the midst of a deadly conspiracy when he finds clues that lead him back to the forty-year-old unsolved murder of a local labor leader.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 5
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A bullet through a windowpane brings Robicheaux back in contact with the Sonnier family, childhood friends whose morality is scarred by a history of abuse. Welton, once a pilot for the CIA-backed Air America; Lyle, a television evangelist; and Drew, a girl-woman with a bitter past, form an extraordinarily close-knit family whose guarded secrets make it impossible for Robicheaux to protect them.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 12
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux, investigating the murder of a teenage girl, has a strong feeling the prime suspect is not the murderer, but the situation becomes urgent when a second girl is killed and her father, a mafia bigwig, decides to take matters into his own hands.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 20
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
548 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Louisiana Sherriff’'s Detective Dave Robicheaux and his longtime friend and partner Clete Purcel are vacationing in Montana’s spectacular Big Sky country when a series of suspicious events leads them to believe their lives — and the lives of their families — are in danger. In contrast to the tranquil beauty of Flathead Lake and the colorful summertime larch and fir unspooling across unblemished ranchland, a venomous presence lurks in the caves...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 4
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1991, c1990
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Clutching the shards, of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New lberia police force. His partner is dead -- slain during a condemned prisoner's bloodyflight to freedom that left Robicheaux critically wounded...and reawakened the ghost of his haunted, violent past. Now he's trailing a killer into the sordid head of die Big Easy-caught up in the lethal undercurrents of a mob double-cross...confronting his most dangerous...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 19
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
528 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Languishing in a recovery unit on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, Dave Robicheaux is fighting an enemy more insidious than the one who put a bullet in his back a month earlier in a shootout on Bayou Teche. The morphine meant to dull his pain is steadily gnawing away at his resolve, playing tricks on his mind, and luring him back into the addict mentality that once threatened to destroy his life and family. With the soporific Indian summer air wafting...
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