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Wyatt Dixon, rodeo cowboy and 'the most dangerous, depraved, twisted and unpredictable human I ever knew' is certainly not one of Billy Bob Holland's favourite people. Sentenced to 60 years in jail for murder, Dixon is out after only a year, due to the DA's failure to disclose a piece of information. He swears he's a changed man and needs Billy Bob's help, but how can Billy Bob believe the man who tortured his wife? And then there's Johnny American Horse, who has been caught carrying a gun. He says he needs it for protection; in a dream he saw two men coming for him.

Sheriff Hackberry Holland patrols a small Southwest Texas border town with a deep and abiding respect for the citizens in his care. Still mourning the loss of his cherished wife and locked in a perilous almost-romance with his deputy, Pam Tibbs, a woman many decades his junior, Hackberry feeds off the deeds of evil men to keep his own demons at bay.

Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honour her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight. Aaron's only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted Horse, a no-nonsense woman who harbours some powerful secrets in her cellar.

It is a rainy late-summer's night in New Orleans. Detective Dave Robicheaux is about to confront the man who may have savagely assaulted his friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, a Catholic priest who's always at the center of controversy. But things are never as they seem and soon Robicheaux is back in New Iberia, probing a car crash that killed three teenage girls. A grief-crazed father and a maniacal assassin are just a few of the characters Robicheaux meets as he is drawn deeper into a web of secrets and violence.

The Convict and Other Stories is a superb collection of stories set in and around the American Deep South and its charismatic people.

Megan and Cisco Flynn are back in town. Nobody had ever been caught for the Klan murder of their father, Jack, and Detective Dave Robicheaux knows that trouble cannot be far behind. Particularly when the Flynns get mixed up with the case of a small-time hustler named Cool Breeze Broussard. As the Flynns find themselves deeper and deeper in trouble, Robicheaux is trying to keep Cool Breeze alive. Something ties Breeze to the Flynns, and all three of them to local plantation magnate Archer Terrebonne. Something long past is poisoning all their lives, bringing death in its wake.

Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge.

Alte Freunde bringen manchmal Unglück. Diese Erkenntnis macht Dave Robicheaux, als er unverhofft dem abgehalfterten Rock'n'Roller Dixie Lee Pugh wiederbegegnet. Pugh arbeitet inzwischen für eine Ölfirma und berichtet ihm von zwei finsteren Kollegen und ihren dreckigen Machenschaften in den Bergen Montanas.

Set mainly in Louisiana during the years 1861-1868, this passionate novel of me, woman and war tells the story of the author's ancestor's, Confederate soldier Willie Burke, during the American Civil War. A classic Burke hero, Willie is soon in conflict with his superiors. The characters who people these pages, many of them based on real historical figures, are as memorable as any Burke has created.

Sweet Pea Chaisson has parked his pink Cadillac convertible full of hookers in the parking lot of a convenience store in Spanish Lake, Louisiana. He’s causing a commotion, but not because of the car or the women—his mother’s coffin is sticking out of the trunk. Welcome again to the world of Dave Robicheaux, the Bayou cop who works murder cases and a 12-step program with a unique mixture of gentleness and suppressed rage. On his beat in Iberia Parrish, ancient burial sites, a Vietnam war diary, an old affair, and a street hustler are stirring up trouble.

The call from ex-Klansman Aaron Crown couldn't have been more unexpected. Sentenced to forty years for the decades-old shooting of a civil rights activist, Crown should have been out of Iberia Parish, Louisiana, for good. Election candidate Buford LaRose wants Detective Dave Robicheaux to ignore Aaron's calls, promising Robicheaux a lucrative job when he makes governor. Worse still, Buford's wife, Karyn, seems unhealthily interested in getting very close to Robicheaux—just like old times. The LaRoses, each for their own reasons, want Crown's case buried.

En western, der skildrer udviklingen i USA fra omkring år 1900 frem til begyndelsen af 1920’erne. Samtidig er det en nærmest mytisk fremstilling af forholdet mellem far og søn. Den farverige roman bevæger sig fra Mexico til San Antonio's bordeller og saloner og er en fortælling om kærlighed og tab, forræderi, hævn og gengældelse.

Toussaint Boudreaux, a black docker in New Orleans, moonlights as a prize-fighter in the hope of a better life. J. P. Winfield, a hick with a gift for 12-string guitar, finds his break into showbiz leads to the flipside of the American dream. And Avery Broussard, descendant of an aristocratic French family, runs whiskey after what remains of his land is repossessed....

Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer Billy Bob Holland is convinced of Lucas's innocence but proving it means unearthing the truth from a seething mass of deceit and corruption. A corruption endemic in the way it can be only in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else's business. Billy Bob's relationship with Lucas's family is not an easy one—years back he was a close friend of Mrs Smothers, too close according to her husband Vernon.

Daily Bible reading in one place. Each day there will be a new episode with your daily Bible reading. No need to go to your Bible reading app and switch between Old and New Testaments, No need to keep up with what you have and have not read, just listen each day, if you miss an episode (day), just catch up as soon as you can,.

Edgar-palkitun Burken suosittu ja kiitelty Dave Robicheaux -sarjan jatko-osa. Vaikutusvaltaisen Sonnierin perheen menneisyys on synkkä kuin Louisianan jokisuiston yö. Murhayritys ja poliisin kuolema vetävät Robicheauxin mukaan perheen hulluuden, murhien ja insestin verkkoon.

Etsivä Dave Robicheaux taistelee jälleen hyvän puolella pahaa vastaan hikisessä ja väkivaltaisessa Louisianassa, kun menneisyys palaa viheliäisesti häiritsemään nykyisyyttä. Neljäkymmentä vuotta sitten tapahtunut ammattiyhdistysmies Jack Flynnin ristiinnaulitseminen jäi aikanaan selvittämättä. Nyt Flynnin tytär Megan palaa New Iberiaan, Lousianaan, ja on selvää, ettei hänen perheensä verinen menneisyys voi enää jäädä peittoon.

Louisialainen ex-poliisi Dave Robicheaux kohtaa omat demoninsa ja brutaalin vastustajan tässä synkässä trillerissä. Robicheaux joutuu selvittämään kahta murhaa, jotka eivät näytä liittyvän toisiinsa. Molemmista syytetään kuitenkin samaa miestä, lahjakasta blues-muusikkoa. Robicheaux uskoo muusikon olevan viaton. Asian todistaminen käy vaikeaksi, kun vastassa on lähes yliluonnollisen paha mies.

Lentokone putoaa mereen. Ex-kyttä ja ex-alkoholisti Dave Robicheaux onnistuu pelastamaan ainoan henkiin jääneen. Poliisisukeltajien saapuessa paikalle huomataan, että yksi ruumiista on kadonnut. Robicheaux alkaa tutkia tapausta. Hän kietoutuu takaisin unohtamaansa rikoksen maailmaan, jossa tuntuu olevan liikaakin houkutuksia.

SOMMAREN 1958 har Dave och Jimmie Robicheaux just slutat skolan. Det är slutet på oskuldens epok - en tid då en rosa Cadillac, en välfylld jukebox och en lyckad fisketur var vägen till lyckan. Då dyker den rödhåriga Ida Durbin upp. En kvinna med tvivelaktig moral, som försvinner lika hastigt som hon kom. Men Jimmie har aldrig glömt sin ungdomsförälskelse.