Last Car to Elysian Fields By James Lee Burke Synopsis:
Following his superb historical novel White Doves Morning, America's most acclaimed crime writer winner of the CWA Gold Dagger and twice winner of the Edgar Award returns to Louisiana and Dave Robicheaux.
James Lee Burke is in top form in his latest page-turner steeped in the lush, unsettling atmosphere that his readers have come to expect. This time, Burke's renowned Louisiana cop returns to the Big Easy in a spellbinding tale of conspiracy, passion, and murder. A rainy late-summer night finds Robicheaux in a New Orleans bar, about to confront the man who may have savagely assaulted his friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, a Catholic priest who's always at the centre of controversy. But things in a Burke novel are rarely what 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, complex assassin are just a few of the characters Robicheaux meets as he is drawn deeper into a viper's nest of sordid secrets and escalating violence that sets him up for a confrontation that echoes down the lonely corridors of his own unresolved past.
A masterful exploration of the troubled side of human nature and the dark corners of the heart, and peopled by familiar characters such as PI. Clete Purcel and Robicheaux's old flame, the now-married Theodosia Lejeune, Last Car to Elysian Fields is vintage Burke a moody, hard-hitting novel that goes the limit in its provocative blend of human drama and relentless noir suspense.
Also by James Lee Burke
Half of Paradise
To the Bright and Shining Sun
Lay Down My Sword and Shield
Two for Texas
The Convict
The Lost Get-Back Boogie
The Neon Rain
Heaven's Prisoners
Black Cherry Blues
A Morning for Flamingos
A Stained White Radiance
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead Dixie City Jam
Burning Angel
Cadillac Jukebox
Cimarron Rose
Sunset Limited
Heartwood Purple Cane Road
Bitterroot
Jolie Blon's Bounce
White Doves at Morning
James Lee Burke
LAST CAR TO ELYSIAN FIELDS
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First published in Great Britain in 2003 by Orion, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd.
Copyright 2003 James Lee Burke
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ISBN 0 75285 652 9 (hardback) 0 75285 653 7 (trade paperback) Printed in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St. Ives plc All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
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