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Sunset Limited (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)by James Lee Burke
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In a land soaked with sin, Dave Robicheaux is dueling with killers, ghosts, and a woman's revenge.... <BR>The townspeople of New Iberia, Louisiana, didn't crucify Megan Flynn's father. They just didn't catch whoever pinned him to a barn wall with sixteen-penny nails. <BR>Decades later, Megan, now a world-famous photojournalist, has come back to the bayou, looking for cop Dave Robicheaux. It was Dave who found the body of labor leader Jack Flynn. The sight changed the boy, shaped him as a man. And after forty years, Robicheaux is still haunted by the bizarre unsolved slaying. <BR>Now Megan's return has stirred up the ghosts of the long-buried past, igniting a storm of violence that will rip apart lives of blacks and whites in this bayou county. And for a good cop with bad memories, hard desires, and chilling nightmares, the time has come to uncover the truth. Review:"Splendidly atmospheric...with dialogue so sharp you can shave with it." -People Review:"One of the best novels of the year from one of the very best writers at work today." -Rocky Mountain News Review:"Engrossing...a vivid, violent fable...James Lee Burke outshines himself in Sunset Limited." -Daily News (N.Y.) Review:"America's best novelist." -The Denver Post Review:"Top-drawer work...James Lee Burke just keeps getting better...Burke writes of the bayous, their people and their violence with electrical luminescence. The dialogue crackles like heat lightning and the story races from conflict to conflict. Robicheaux, a modern-day tragic hero, continues to grow as one of crime fiction's major figures." -San Antonio Express-News Review:"Burke's dialogue sounds true as a tape recording; his writing about action is strong and economical. . . . Burke is a prose stylist to be reckoned with." -Los Angeles Times Book Review Review:"Burke flies miles above most contemporary crime novelists." -The Orlando Sentinel Review:"Among writers in the genre, only Tony Hillerman's novels about the Navajo tribal police match Burke's ability to write evocatively about the natural world. . . . It's hard to imagine readers not bolting it down like a steaming plate of crawfish etouffee." -Entertainment Weekly Review:"Burke writes prose that has a pronounced streak of poetry in it." -The New York Times Review:"James Lee Burke isn't simply a crime writer--he's the Graham Greene of the bayou." -New York Daily News Review:"If you haven't already discovered Burke's novels, find one!" -Chicago Tribune Review:"James Lee Burke can write some of the best scenes of violence in American literature. He can also toss out a metaphor or a brief descriptive phrase that can stop a reader cold." -The Washington Post Book World Review:"It has become apparent that not since Raymond Chandler has anyone so thoroughly reinvented the crime and mystery genre as James Lee Burke." -Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall Review:"If you haven't read Burke, get going." -Playboy Review:"Nobody working in the genre holds us more compellingly than Mr. Burke, or with such style and ferocity. He stands all but alone in the invention of character." -The New Yorker Review:"One of our most compelling novelists." -New York Newsday Review:"Few writers in america can evoke a region as well as Burke." -The Philadelphia Inquirer Review:"Robicheaux is a detective to be reckoned with, more interesting than Spenser, more complex and satisfying than Travis McGee . . . James Lee Burke is a writer to be remembered." -USA Today Review:"Burke writes prose as moody and memory-laden as his region." -Time Review:"Burke tells a story in a style all his own; language that's alive, electric; he's a master at setting mood, laying in atmosphere, all with quirky, raunchy dialogthat's a delight." -Elmore Leonard Review:"It's hard to deny the powerful impact of Mr. Burke's hard-boiled poetics." -The Wall Street Journal About the AuthorJames Lee Burke is the author of sixteen previous books, including the New York Times bestsellers Cimarron Rose, Cadillac Jukebox, Burning Angel, and Dixie City Jam. He lives with his wife in Missoula, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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