Summary
Thirty years after the murder of a civil rights leader, a Louisiana man, Aaron Crown, is convicted of the crime. Crown asserts his innocence and asks Dave Robicheaux, sheriff's deputy of New Iberia, to find the real killer. Robicheaux's involvement throws him in the midst of the media circus gathered to cash in on the long overdue decision. In addition to the attention of the big city film crews, the case draws the attention of Louisiana gubernatorial candidate Buford LaRose, who claims that the book he wrote helped convict Crown; it becomes clearer that LaRose and his shady backers want to ride the press coverage straight to the governor's mansion.
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"Only Walter Mosley rivals Burke's ability to burrow so deeply into his detective's world that he creates a compelling sense of personal mythology."
-- Kirkus
"'Cadillac Jukebox' is studded with sentences so striking that you want to linger over them." -- Tom Nolan
-- Wall Street Journal
"A master class on the page, with Burke effortlessly transcending the genre in which he is lodged....Involvement and excitement guaranteed, including that of seeing a major writer confidently at work. One of Burke's very best." -- Philip Oakes
-- Literary Review
"For all the dirt it rolls around in, Mr. Burke's muscular prose is full of grace." -- Marilyn Stasio
-- New York Times Book Review
"'Cadillac Jukebox' is terrific reading. Few writers in America can evoke a region as well as Burke. His southern Louisiana is haunted by its own tainted history of prejudice, violence and corruption. Again and again, its people learn they cannot escape their history, even if they are named Buford LaRose. Burke also has a discerning eye about social class and its tangle of conflicts, envy and hypocrisies." -- Tim Warren
-- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Publisher: B E Trice Pub
Published date: 1999
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