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In The Electric Mist With Confederate Dead
In The Electric Mist With Confederate Dead Author:James Lee Burke PAST MEETS PRESENT IN THE LOUISIANA SWAMPS The image of the dead girl's body lingered in detective Dave Robicheaux's mind as he drove home. After seeing the young victim's corpse, the last thing he needed to come across was a drunk driver. But when he saw the Cadillac fishtail across the road, Robicheaux knew the driver was in troubl... more »e. What Dave didn't realize, was that by pulling the car over, he was opening his murder case wider than he could ever imagine. The driver, Elrod Sykes, in New Iberia to star in a movie, leads Dave to the skeletal remains of a black man that had washed up in the Atchafalaya swamp. So begins a mystery that takes Dave back to an unsolved murder -- a murder that he witnessed in 1957. Haunted by the past as he confronts the gruesome present - day rape and murder of young prostitutes, Robicheaux must also contend with a new partner from the F.B.I., and the local criminal gentry. But for Dave, the answers he seeks lie somewhere in the bayou mist with the ghosts of soldiers long since forgotten... A masterwork of detective fiction, In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead is James Lee Burke's most suspenseful work to date.« less
An excellent read! This was the second time I have read this novel, and I plan to read all
of Burke's work at least twice. His characters are so vivid you feel like you know them personally.
School friend of Dave Robicheaux returns to Iberia. He is a mobster who no one has ever been able to pin anything on. Than Dave gets conflicting messages. Send him out of our town but wait maybe not he is backing a movie being made there that is bringing a lot of revenue. Very good story