Critically acclaimed and bestselling 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.
For Dave Robicheaux, life in Louisiana is filled with haunting memories of the past—images from Vietnam, the violent streets of New Orleans, and his own troubled youth. In Crusader's Cross, a deathbed confession from an old schoolmate resurrects...

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...

In this Edgar Award-winning thriller, former Louisiana homicide cop Dave Robicheaux is trying to start a new life after the murder of his wife — but he can't escape his past forever.  Dave Robicheaux was once a Louisiana homicide cop. Now he's trying to start a new life, opening up a fishing business and caring for his adopted girl, Alafair.
Compared to Louisiana, Robicheaux thought Montana would be...

Dave Robicheaux felt the bone-grinding pain rip through his body as the .45 did its damage. Through the agonizing haze that enveloped him, he heard an almost inhuman laugh-the hideous, victorious cackling of Jimmie Lee Boggs-a sound he would never forget. It had started out as an ordinary prisoner transfer, then turned into a blood bath when the convicted murderer got hold of a gun. Robicheaux could still hear that contemptible laughter, replacing...

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.

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.

Sheriff's investigator Dave Robicheaux, having grown up with the lingering sadness of his mother's disappearance when he was a boy, is stunned into action when a New Orleans lowlife tells him his mother was murdered thirty years earlier by two cops who are still on the job.

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.

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.

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.