Books by James Lee Burke

Dr. Tobin Voss is accused of the murder of a biker who may have raped his daughter, Maisey. Tobin's friend, lawyer Billy Bob Holland, wades into the case and soon finds himself in a great deal of trouble, as Missoula County's intrigues and corruptions begin to swirl around him.

Ex-cop Dave Robicheaux: His wife had been murdered ... Now they're after his little girl...

From the Louisiana bayou to Montana's tribal lands,he's running front the bottle, a homicide rap, aprofessional killer ... and the demons of his past.

The bestselling author of Dixie City Jam mesmerizes readers with another entry in his brilliant series that features Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux. Here Dave finds himself entangled with the affairs of the Fontenot family, descendants of sharecroppers who are in danger of losing the land they've lived on for more than 100 years.

Everyone knew that Aaron Crown shot Louisiana's most famous civil rights attorney 28 years ago; it just took that long to assemble a jury that would convict him. But Detective Dave Robicheaux--the character popularized by Burke in eight previous novels including the bestsellers "Dixie City Jam" and "Burning Angel"--knows that, somehow, he must find out the truth about Aaron Crown: a truth that too many people want hidden.

Texas attorney and former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland has many secrets in his dark past. Among them is Vernon Smothers' son Lucas, a teenaged boy about whom only Vernon and Billy Bob know the truth. Lucas is really Billy Bob's illegitimate son, and when Lucas is arrested for murder, Billy Bob knows that he has no choice but to confront the past and serve as the boy's criminal attorney. During Lucas's trial, Billy Bob realizes that he will have to bring injury upon Lucas as well as himself in order to save his son. And as a result, Billy Bob creates enemies that are far more dangerous than any he had faced as a Texas Ranger.

A collection of nine award-winning stories, set in locales along the Gulf coasts of Louisiana and Texas and battlefields around the world.

Nine stories set along the Gulf coast deal with loss, courage, betrayal, friendship, violence, heroism, and mortality.

A republication of a dozen short works by the two-time Edgar Award-winning author of Swan Peak is set in the Gulf Coast region of Louisiana and evaluates such themes as domestic abuse, sex, and war. Reprint.

After hearing an old schoolmate's deathbed confession, Dave Robicheaux begins a search for a prostitute he met decades earlier who had dangerous ties to the mob, an endeavor that proves dangerous in the wake of a series of murders and the sudden appearance of a troubled young woman. By the author of In the Moon of Red Ponies. Book available.

Robicheaux confronts a neo-Nazi psychopath who is searching for a sunken Nazi submarine off the Gulf Coast.

In this intense, fascinating story, Burke follows the lives of three young Louisiana men, each of whom finds himself in desperate circumstances. There's Avery Broussard, the last survivor of a family of once prosperous land owners, who has a weakness for alcohol; J.P. Winfield, a poor singer and guitar player who rises to fame as a country music star, only to be destroyed by drug addiction; and Toussaint Boudreaux, a black longshoreman who moonlights as a heavyweight boxer. The destinies of these men are tragically intertwined in this debut novel that showcases Burke's masterful and now-familiar style.

In the sequel to Cimarron Rose, defense attorney Billy Bob Holland, a former Texas Ranger, comes up against ruthless local kingpin Earl Dietrich, when he takes on the case of Wilbur Pickett, accused of stealing $300,000 in bearer bonds from Dietrich's office, as well as painful secrets from his own past. Reprint.

This acclaimed novel has now been adapted to film by Savoy Pictures starring Alec Baldwin as Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux and Mary Stuart Masterson as his wife. Heaven's Prisoners is a steamy mystery that combines the noir atmosphere of Chinatown with the evocative New Orleans setting of The Big Easy.

When Dixon, a criminal whom Billy Bob Holland had helped send to prison, is released on a technicality, Holland finds his loved ones endangered by the vengeful killer, a situation that is complicated by the government's refusal to help. By the author of Last Car to Elysian Fields. Reprint.

Detective Dave Robicheaux tries to connect a 35-year old homicide to a string of recent serial murders of prostitutes, convinced that a mob boss is the missing link and guilty party

Ten short works by the Edgar Award-winning author of Crusader's Cross and Bitterroot include the popular title piece as originally published in Esquire and follow the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Hurricane Katrina. Original. 100,000 first printing.

Battling personal demons while working on two murders, New Iberia police detective Dave Robicheaux believes that chief suspect Tee Bobby Hulin is innocent but must find the real killer before one of the victim's fathers metes out his own justice. Reprint.

Preparing to confront a man who may have assaulted his friend, detective Robicheaux finds himself investigating 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. Reprint.

Texan Hack Holland, a political candidate, becomes involved with the civil rights movement, a stand that forces him to reassess his priorities and goals. Reprint.

An ex-con and blues musician, Iry Paret tries to put his life back together by moving in with an old prison friend, but soon a romantic interest puts him in a difficult, compromising situation.

Entrusted to transport two prisoners to death row, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux is wounded when one of them, Jimmie Lee Boggs, escapes, an act that causes Robicheaux to put all of his efforts into revenge.

Nicaraguan terrorists are the latest target for Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux.

Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley is called to a posh Miami neighborhood to investigate a lethal overdose. There he meets the alluring stepmother of the decedant, and begins to wonder about dating a witness. Meanwile, he has been threatened with suspension by his ambitious new chief unless he leaves his beloved, if squalid, suite at the El Dorado Hotel, and moves downtown. With free housing hard to come by, Hoke is desperate to find a new place to live. His difficulties are only amplified by an assignment to re-investigate fifty unsolved murders, the unexpected arrival of his two teenage daughters, and a partner struggling with an unwanted pregnancy. With few options and even fewer dollars, he decides that the suspicious and beautiful stepmother of the dead junkie might be a compromised solution to all of his problems.

Packed with atmosphere and humor, New Hope for the Dead is a classic murder mystery by one of the true masters of the genre. Now back in print, Charles Willeford’s tour de force is an irresistible invitation to become acquainted with one of the greatest detective characters of all time.

Precariously content in his strict AA lifestyle at the side of a woman he loves, New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux finds his peace shattered by the appearance of a woman who is passing stolen money and the suicide of another woman who may be the daughter of Dave's long-time friend. Book available.

Haunted by the mother he never knew, Dave Robicheaux is stunned when a chance meeting reveals that his mother had been murdered by two New Orleans police officers thirty years ago, a discovery that has him searching for the killers. Reprint.

Running from a checkered past to become a sheriff in a ramshackle Texas border town, Hackberry Holland, the cousin of Montana lawyer Billy Bob, investigates a harrowing case involving the murders of nine prostitutes, a situation that pits him against hired guns, skin-bar owners, and drug dealers. By the two-time Edgar-winning author of Swan Peak. Simultaneous.

Running from a checkered past to become a sheriff in a ramshackle Texas border town, Hackberry Holland, the cousin of Montana lawyer Billy Bob, investigates a harrowing case involving the murders of nine prostitutes, a situation that pits him against hired guns, skin-bar owners, and drug dealers. By the two-time Edgar-winning author of Swan Peak. Simultaneous.

Starting a new life as the sheriff of a dried-out, broken-down border town in south Texas, Hackberry Holland is drawn into a murder investigation when nine dead prostitutes are dug up in the desert, forcing him to focus on something other than his own demons.

An assassination attempt and a police officer's death draw detective Dave Robicheaux into the web of the Sonnier family, a vicious clan with ties to the CIA, the underworld, and to an ex-Klansman running for office.

Photojournalist Megan Flynn returns home to Louisiana and becomes embroiled in her family's attempts to reconcile their bloody history. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.

The latest tale featuring the popular and flawed detective Dave Robicheaux takes him from the bayous of Louisiana's New Iberia Parish to the wild mountains of Montana. Includes excerpt from the forthcoming In the Valley of Ancient Rain Gods. Reprint.

The acclaimed author of Pegasus Descending follows the adventures of Iberia Parish detective Dave Robicheaux, who struggles with alcoholism and rage while fighting to protect lives in Katrina-devastated New Orleans from a quartet of ruthless criminals out to steal a gangster's hidden fortune. Reprint.

Perry Woodson Hatfield James, a determined seventeen-year-old youth, struggles to escape the violence of the Cumberland mining region of eastern Kentucky, in a novel that captures the atmosphere and landscape of Appalachia in the early 1960s. Reprint.

This historical novels tells the story of the Texas Revolution in 1835.

Despite their misgivings about "the Cause," Willie Burke and his best friends, three young men from New Iberia, Louisiana, enlist in the Confederate Army and head off to war, in a novel drawn from the author's own family history.