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Dave Robicheaux Séries

Plongez dans les profondeurs atmosphériques de la Louisiane avec une série qui suit un détective hanté naviguant dans les bayous et le sombre envers de la société. Chaque épisode dévoile des mystères complexes, souvent ancrés dans le passé violent et le présent corrompu de la région. C'est un voyage dans un monde où les démons personnels se heurtent aux menaces extérieures, offrant une exploration âpre, poétique et profondément humaine de la justice et de la rédemption.

Dans la brume électrique avec les morts confédérés
A Stained White Radiance
A Morning for Flamingos
Black Cherry Blues
Heaven's Prisoners
The Neon Rain

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  1. The Neon Rain

    • 314pages
    • 11 heures de lecture

    Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruised heart in order to survive.

    The Neon Rain1
    3,9

  3. Black Cherry Blues

    A Dave Robicheaux Novel

    • 326pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    Book #3 from the series: Dave RobicheauxBACK IN THE UNDERWORLD HE TRIED TO LEAVE BEHIND Haunted by the memory of his wife's murder and his father's untimely death, ex-New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux spends his days in a fish-and-tackle business. But when an old friend makes a surprise appearance, Robicheaux finds himself thrust back into the violent world of Mafia goons and wily federal agents. From the Louisiana bayou to Montana's tribal lands, Robicheaux is running from the bottle, a homicide rap, a professional killer and the demons of his past. Rich with fascinating characters and dramatic plot twists, James Lee Burke and his Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux recall the best of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe -- tough, complex and thoroughly entertaining.

    Black Cherry Blues3
    4,2

  4. A Morning for Flamingos

    • 388pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    Clutching the shards, of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New lberia police force. His partner is dead -- slain during a condemned prisoner's bloodyflight to freedom that left Robicheaux critically wounded...and reawakened the ghost of his haunted, violent past. Now he's trailing a killer into the sordid head of die Big Easy-caught up in the lethal undercurrents of a mob double-cross...confronting his most dangerous enemy: himself

    A Morning for Flamingos4
    4,2

  6. Dans la brume électrique avec les morts confédérés

    Quelque part dans le sud profond des États-Unis, le policier Dave Robicheaux arrête Elrod Sykes, un acteur d'Hollywood, pour conduite en état d'ivresse. En tournage dans la région, celui-ci prétend avoir trouvé dans le bayou le cadavre momifié d'un Noir, enchaîné à un arbre. Plus troublant encore, à cet endroit, trente-cinq ans auparavant, Robicheaux fut lui-même témoin d'un lynchage qui n'a cessé de le hanter. Malgré les réticences de son supérieur, il décide de relâcher l'acteur et de découvrir l'identité du cadavre. Son enquête va réveiller de vieilles rancunes et susciter d'autres crimes. La guerre de Sécession n'est pas réellement terminée dans le New Iberia, région meurtrie par la violence et alourdie par le poids de la culpabilité. Dans ce sixième volume consacré au policier cajun, James Lee Burke démêle, en grand virtuose, les fils de trois enquêtes et approfondit la personnalité de Dave Robicheaux en évoquant des bribes de son enfance. --Lisa B.

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    4,2

  7. Dixie city jam

    As a child he was frightened by the stories...It's out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast--a buried Nazi submarine. Detective Dave Robicheaux of the New Ibera Sheriff's office has known if its existence since childhood, when he was terrified by nightmares of the evil Nazi sailors just offshore. Then, as a teenager, he stumbled upon the sunken sub while scuba diving--but for years he kept the secret of its watery grave.... And now he must face the terrible reality.But decades later, when a powerful Jewish activist wants the sub raised, Robicheaux's knowledge puts him at the center of a terrifying struggle of conflicting desires. A neo-Nazi psychopath named Will Buchalter, who insists that the Holocaust was a hoax, wants to find the submarine first--and he'll stop at nothing to get Robicheaux to talk.James Lee Burke looks long and hard into the human heart of darkness in his most electrifying novel yet, a story of terror and courage in a Southern Louisiana where the horrific and the beautiful rise from the same fertile soil.

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    4,1

  9. Cadillac Jukebox

    • 464pages
    • 17 heures de lecture

    When a man imprisoned for killing a black civil rights leader protests his innocence before Dave Robicheaux, the Louisiana detective finds himself pressured by the state's new governor and his seductive wife to stay away from the case. Reprint."

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    4,1

  10. Sunset Limited

    “One of the best novels of the year from one of the very best writers at work today.”—Rocky Mountain News The townspeople of New Iberia, Louisiana, didn’t crucify Megan Flynn’s father. They just didn’t catch whoever pinned him to a barn wall with sixteen-penny nails. Decades later, Megan, now a world-famous photojournalist, has come back to the bayou, looking for cop Dave Robicheaux. It was Dave who found the body of labor leader Jack Flynn. The sight changed the boy, shaped him as a man. And after forty years, Robicheaux is still haunted by the bizarre unsolved slaying. Now Megan’s return has stirred up the ghosts of the long-buried past, igniting a storm of violence that will rip apart lives of blacks and whites in this bayou country. And for a good cop with bad memories, hard desire, and chilling nightmares, the time has come to uncover the truth.

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    3,8

  12. Jolie Blon's Bounce

    America's most acclaimed crime writer and winner of the 1998 CWA/Macallan Gold Dagger returns to Louisiana with his great detective, Dave Robicheaux schovat popis

    Jolie Blon's Bounce12
    4,1

  13. A Dave Robicheaux Novel: Last Car to Elysian Fields

    • 465pages
    • 17 heures de lecture

    For Dave Robicheaux, returning to New Orleans means confronting old ghosts and familiar dangers. Now a police officer in New Iberia, he learns that his friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, has been brutally assaulted, prompting him to investigate unofficially in the city that haunts him. Unbeknownst to Robicheaux, this decision invites an ancestral evil that threatens his life and those around him. Assisted by his friend, P.I. Clete Purcel, Robicheaux confronts Gunner Ardoin, the suspected assailant, but the situation escalates, leading to Clete's arrest and a warning for Robicheaux to stay away from New Orleans. Back in New Iberia, tragedy strikes as three teenage girls die in a drunk-driving accident involving the daughter of a prominent physician. Robicheaux traces the alcohol's source to a local daiquiri window, but when its owner is murdered, he suspects the grieving father. His theory is challenged when the murder weapon is linked to someone else. Meanwhile, Father Dolan asks for help investigating a toxic landfill in New Orleans, which leads to the mystery of a missing blues musician. Tying these threads together is Max Coll, a relentless hitman targeting Father Dolan. As violence escalates, Robicheaux finds himself drawn deeper into a web of secrets, forcing him to confront his unresolved past. This tale masterfully explores the darker sides of human nature, filled with unforgettable characters and the atmospheric tension tha

    A Dave Robicheaux Novel: Last Car to Elysian Fields13
    4,0

  14. L'Emblème du croisé

    " J'effaçai presque Ida Durbin de ma mémoire. Mais souvent le péché d'oubli, si c'est bien de cela qu'il s'agissait, est comme le fer rouillé d'une hache enfouie dans le coeur d'un arbre... il se retrouve un jour ou l'autre, lorsque les dents de la tronçonneuse finissent par mordre dedans. " La confession d'un ancien condisciple d'université, sur son lit de mort, ravive chez Robicheaux le souvenir d'une jeune femme qui a marqué sa jeunesse. Dans les années cinquante, époque d'une innocence à jamais enfuie, Dave Robicheaux et son frère Jimmie avaient rencontré Ida Durbin sur une plage de Galveston au Texas. Elle était ravissante et Jimmie, ignorant qu'elle travaillait dans un bordel lié à la mafia, en était tombé follement amoureux. Puis elle avait brusquement disparu, sans laisser de traces. Des décennies ont passé et Robicheaux se met à enquêter sur Ida Durbin, ayant la conviction qu'elle a été assassinée. Mais deux policiers au comportement menaçant lui font comprendre qu'il est dangereux de poser des questions sur cette affaire. Entre la série de meurtres horribles qui frappent La Nouvelle-Orléans et l'irruption du puissant Val Chalons et de sa soeur Honoria, Robicheaux doit, une fois encore, mener un combat contre des forces qui le dépassent, les forces du mal incarnées par les grandes familles de Louisiane depuis des générations.

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    4,2

  15. Pegasus Descending

    WHEN A NICE YOUNG WOMAN named Trish Klein blows into Louisiana passing hundred-dollar bills in local casinos, Detective Dave Robicheaux senses a storm bearing down on his new life of contentment. Twenty-five years ago, lost in a drunken haze in Florida, Robicheaux was too far gone to save his friend and fellow ’Nam vet Dallas Klein, murdered in cold blood for gambling debts. Now, the arrival of Dallas’s daughter opens a door locked long ago, and extracting her motives points Robicheaux to the suicide of a local "good girl" pulled into a vortex of power, sex, and death. It’s Robicheaux’s most personally painful case—a roller coaster of passion, surprise, and regret—and it may be his deadliest.

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    3,9

  16. Dave Robicheaux: The Tin Roof Blowdown

    A Dave Robicheaux Novel

    • 384pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    This is James Lee Burke's latest mystery featuring Dave Robicheaux. It is also much more than that. The story begins with the shooting of two would-be looters in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and then follows a motley group of characters - from street thugs to a big-time mob boss, from a junkie priest to a sadistic psychopath - as their stories converge on a cache of stolen diamonds, while the storm turns the Big Easy into a lawless wasteland of apocalyptic proportions. The nightmarish landscape created by Katrina seems the perfect setting for Burke's almost Biblical visions of good and evil - it is as if he had to wait for this disaster to find the occasion to match his emotionally supercharged prose. You can feel the undercurrents of rage and pain beneath the narrative, making this not only his most personal and deeply felt book for some time, but quite possibly his best novel to date. This is not just a superb crime novel, it is potentially THE fictional chronicle of a disaster whose human dimensions America is still struggling to process.

    Dave Robicheaux: The Tin Roof Blowdown16
    4,2

  17. Swan Peak

    A Dave Robicheaux Novel

    • 592pages
    • 21 heures de lecture

    The latest tale featuring the popular and flawed detective Dave Robicheaux takes him from the bayous of Louisiana's New Iberia Parish to the wild mountains of Montana.

    Swan Peak17
    3,9

  18. The Glass Rainbow

    • 528pages
    • 19 heures de lecture

    In this gripping new novel, Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to New Iberia, Louisiana, facing the most harrowing case of his career as seven young women are brutally murdered in neighboring Jefferson Davis Parish. While the killings suggest a serial killer, the death of high school honor student Bernadette Latiolais stands out, as she doesn't fit the profile of typical victims. Robicheaux and his friend Clete Purcel confront Herman Stanga, a despised pimp and crack dealer, but when Stanga is found dead after a violent encounter with Purcel, the investigation spirals into chaos, jeopardizing Clete's life and career. Compounding Robicheaux's troubles is his daughter Alafair, who is on leave from Stanford Law to finish her novel. Her relationship with Kermit Abelard, a celebrated novelist from a declining Louisiana family, raises alarms for Robicheaux, especially given Abelard's ties to Robert Weingart, a manipulative ex-convict author. As Alafair seems to drift away, Robicheaux grapples with his own paranoia, only to discover that his instincts about the dangers surrounding her are all too accurate. Set against a backdrop of beauty threatened by dark forces, this novel promises to be a standout in the Robicheaux series.

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    4,0

  19. Creole Belle

    A Dave Robicheaux Novel

    • 624pages
    • 22 heures de lecture

    “America’s best novelist” James Lee Burke returns with another New York Times bestselling entry in the Dave Robicheaux thriller series (The Denver Post). Set against the events of the Gulf Coast oil spill, rife with “the menaces of greed and violence and man-made horror” (The Christian Science Monitor), Creole Belle finds Dave Robicheaux languishing in a New Orleans recovery unit since surviving a bayou shoot-out. The detective’s body is healing; it’s his morphine-addled mind that conjures spectral visions of Tee Jolie Melton, a young woman who in reality has gone missing. An iPod with an old blues song left by his bedside turns Robicheaux into a man obsessed…And as oil companies assign blame after an epic disaster threatens the Gulf’s very existence, Robicheaux unearths connections between tragedies both global and personal—and faces down forces that can corrupt and destroy the best of men.

    Creole Belle19
    4,0

  20. Light of the World

    • 560pages
    • 20 heures de lecture

    James Lee Burke's legendary detective Dave Robicheaux returns to try to save his daughter from a sadistic killer.

    Light of the World20
    4,0

  21. Robicheaux

    • 560pages
    • 20 heures de lecture

    Dave Robicheaux est un homme hanté, aux prises avec des souvenirs du Vietnam, des luttes contre l'alcoolisme et la perte de sa femme, Molly. Son seul réconfort vient de son rôle de détective à New Iberia, en Louisiane. Dans ce cadre, il croise le chemin du parrain de la mafia Tony Nemo, qui possède une épée de la guerre de Sécession destinée à l'auteur local Levon Broussard. Bien que Tony prétende que l'épée appartient aux ancêtres de Levon, son véritable objectif est de tirer profit des adaptations cinématographiques lucratives de Levon. La situation se complique avec Jimmy Nightengale, un jeune homme de l'élite de la Nouvelle-Orléans, qui admire le travail de Levon et est épris de la femme de Levon, Rowena. Alors que les tensions montent entre ces trois hommes, une agression brutale se produit, incitant Robicheaux à enquêter. La situation s'intensifie avec la mort mystérieuse de T.J. Dartez, liée au décès de Molly, amenant le collègue de Robicheaux, Spade Labiche, à le soupçonner. Déterminé à prouver son innocence, Robicheaux est aidé par sa fille, Alafair, et son ami, Clete Purcel, alors qu'ils plongent plus profondément dans l'affaire, découvrant des vérités choquantes en cours de route.

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  22. The New Iberia Blues

    • 464pages
    • 17 heures de lecture

    The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana in this gripping mystery from modern master (Publishers Weekly) James Lee Burke.

    The New Iberia Blues22
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  • Three Great Novels

    DIXIE CITY JAM When a Nazi submarine is discovered lying in sixty feet of water off the Louisiana coast, some troubled ghosts are ready to be released. A local businessman is offering Detective Dave Robicheaux big money to bring the wreck to the surface, but he is not the only one after the submarine and its cargo. A new spirit of hatred is abroad, and its embodiment is stalking Robicheaux's wife...BURNING ANGEL When Sonny Marsallas entrusts a mysterious notebook to Dave Robicheaux, a series of violent events is set in train. What did Sonny's girlfriend know that resulted in her murder? What are Sonny's connections with the Mob that finally lead them to send a hitman after Dave? BURNING ANGEL outstrips its crime thriller label to produce a rich, sardonic and terrifying portrayal of contemporary America. PURPLE CANE ROAD Detective Dave Robicheaux embarks on a painful journey to a murky past, when he his told that his mother, Mae, was a hooker and ended her life drowned in a puddle by two cops working for the Mob. Dave learns to confront and accept his mistakes as he tries to track down his mother's killers and bring them to justice.

    Three Great Novels
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