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Purple Cane Road
Purple Cane Road
Author: James Lee Burke
Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass on to the son. But what was his mother's legacy? Dead to him since his youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Robicheaux's mind. He's lived with the fact that he would never really know what happened to the woman who lef...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780440295822
ISBN-10: 0440295823
Publication Date: 9/1/2000
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Publisher: Dell Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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The descriptions of the Louisiana settings, both in New Orleans and the bayou, make you feel as if you are there, but the descriptions of what happens there might make you glad to be far away! The Dave Robicheaux mysteries get deep into the main character's psyche, and also into local politics and history. The lines between good and evil are not so clearly drawn, and hardly anybody in these books follows any rules!