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I am always struck by what a great writer Burke is. His command of the language is awesome! mixed in are such uniquely southern way of speaking that I wish I had a dictionary by my side! Highly recommended.

Excellent read. Burke paints a portrait of Southern Louisiana and keeps you turning the pages.

One of my favorite in the Dave Robicheaux series. James Burke is a great writer.

Superb writing and a throbbing pace lift two-time Edgar-winner Burke's powerful, many-layered 14th Dave Robicheaux novel (after 2003's Last Car to Elysian Fields), which involves venal and arrogant members of a wealthy family that can trace its lineage to fifth-century France as well as the machinations of the New Orleans mafia.A conversation between Robicheaux and a dying childhood friend about Ida Durbin, a young prostitute that Robicheaux's half-brother, Jimmie, loved and lost in the late 1950s, sets the ex-homicide detective on a path that eventually leads to several gruesome killings and his near downfall. Unemployed, his wife dead, his daughter in college, Robicheaux rejoins the New Iberia, La., sheriff's department at the urging of Sheriff Helen Soileau, who needs an extra hand as the murders mount. While the tendrils of the sometimes rambling plot unfold, Robicheaux and his impulsive former police partner, PI Clete Purcell, seek retribution for injustices caused by a wide range of corrupt villains. Burke masterfully combines landscape and memory in a violent, complex story peopled by sharply defined characters who inhabit a lush, sensual, almost mythological world.

NYT Bestseller from the excellent Robicheaux series set in Louisiana. I just recently discovered this author, and I am very favorably impressed.

One of my favorite authors.

Another great Dave Robicheaux murder mystery.

This was a great book! My first book by this author, but not my last. I'll be looking for more of his work.

Very good series.

For detective Dave Robicheaux, memories-including those of a strange and violent summer from his youth- are best left alone. But a dying man's confession forces Robicheaux to resurrect a decades old mystery with a missing woman at its heart. Her name may or not have been Ida Durbin, and Robicheaux's half brother Jimmie, paid a brutal price for entering her world. Now the truth will plunge him into the manipulations of New Orleans' wealthiest family, into a complex love affair of his own, and into hot pursuit of a killer expanding his territory beyond the Big Easy at a frightening pace.

great book