In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead

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From one of America's most acclaimed writers comes a masterwork of detective fiction featuring Detective Dave Robicheaux. A movie crew has arrived in New Iberia, Louisiana, to film a Civil War epic, and star Elrod Sykes, facing a drunk-driving charge, offers Robicheaux information in exchange for leniency. This leads him to the skeletal remains of a black man whose murder he witnessed in 1957, a still-unsolved crime that haunts him. Concurrently, Robicheaux confronts a more immediate horror: the serial rape and murder of young prostitutes. The arrival of FBI agent Rosie Gomez forces him to form a partnership that challenges his self-perception and his view of the community, where local officials are entangled with dubious figures like Julie "Baby Feet" Balboni, an investor in the film project vital for the region's economy. As Robicheaux encounters the legendary Confederate cavalry officer General John Bell Hood in the bayou's mist, he begins to grasp that "the war is never over," and the battle continues. Burke's masterful handling of a multilayered plot, intertwined with reflections on the decline of the chivalric code in the South, creates a stunning addition to a series that is redefining the genre.