Dave Robicheaux novels
Author
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dave Robicheaux, a New Orleans detective, discovers that someone wants him dead and becomes involved with drug dealers, Mafia chieftains, an ex-general with shady dealings in Central America, and a beautiful woman.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Robicheaux, a recovering alcoholic, has retired to bayou country when a small plane full of passengers -- and trouble -- drops out of the sky near his boat. But as he rescues the only survivor, a girl he names Alafair, the crash soon plunges him into a netherworld of murder and deception. Trapped by events he cannot control, the usually quiet and gentle Robicheaux protects himself and his loved ones the only way he knows how: with a fist and a gun....
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Evil crept into Dave Robicheaux's bayou world one night and destroyed the woman he loved. Now it's threatening the life of his innocent child. Framed for murder, the Cajun ex-cop is traveling far from his Louisiana home to clear his name, to help a friend, to save what remains of his family--seeking justice and revenge in the Big Sky Country of Montana.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 4
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A routine assignment transporting two death-row prisoners to their executions goes fatally wrong, leaving Dave Robicheaux brutally wounded and his partner dead. Obsessed with revenge, Dave is persuaded by the DEA to go undercover into the torrid sleepy depths of New Orleans, a volatile world of Mafia drug-running and Cajun voodoo magic. He becomes irrevocably snarled in the nightmarish web surrounding Mafia don Tony Cardo and must put himself against...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux knows the Sonnier family of New Iberia - their connections to the CIA, the mob, and to a former Klansman now running for state office. And he knows their past - as dark and murky as a night on the Louisiana bayou.
An assassination attempt and the death of a cop draw Robicheaux into the Sonniers' dangerous web of madness, murder and incest. But Robicheaux has devils of his own. And they've come out of hiding...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 6
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 7
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 8
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
10) Sunset limited
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
“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...
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...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass onto the son. But what has his mother’s legacy left him? Dead to him since youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Dave’s mind. He’s lived with the fact that he would never really know what happened to the woman who left him to the devices of his whiskey-driven father. But deep down, he still feels the loss...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 14
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 15
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 16
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the adventures of detective Dave Robicheaux, who struggles with alcoholism and rage while fighting to protect lives in Katrina-devastated New Orleans.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Dave Robicheaux returns in another adventure--only this time, he travels from New Iberia Parish to the wilds of Montana to solve the mysterious murder of a University of Montana coed and her boyfriend.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 18
Language
English
Description
"Seven young women in Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. While the crimes have all the tell tale signs of a serial killer, the death of Bernadette Latiolais, a high school honor student, doesn't fit: she is not the kind of marginalized victim psychopaths usually prey upon. Dave Robicheaux and his best friend, Clete Purcel, confront Herman Stanga, a notorious pimp and crack dealer whom both men despise. When Stanga turns up dead shortly...
19) Creole belle
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 19
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
While in a New Orleans recovery unit, detective Dave Robicheaux meets a Creole girl whose subsequent disappearance prompts his search for the girl's sister against a backdrop of a bayou-threatening oil well rupture in the Gulf of Mexico.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 20
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Light of the World, sadist and serial killer Asa Surrette narrowly escaped the death penalty for the string of heinous murders he committed while capital punishment was outlawed in Kansas. But following a series of damning articles written by Dave Robicheaux's daughter Alafair about possible other crimes committed by Surette, the killer escapes from a prison transport van and heads to Montana--where an unsuspecting Dave happens to have gone to...
21) Robicheaux
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 21
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. From the acts he committed in Vietnam, to his battles with alcoholism, to the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next. Images of ghosts pepper his reality. Robicheaux's only beacon remains serving as a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana. It's in that capacity that Robicheaux crosses paths with powerful mob boss, Tony Nemo. Tony has a Civil War sword he'd...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 22
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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. Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 23
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenaged Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooming young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny...
24) Clete
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 24
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave's partner and friend Clete Purcel to the forefront for the first time as Clete and Dave attempt to stop the ruthless smugglers of a dangerous new drug. Clete Purcel-privateinvestigator, former cop, and war veteran with a hard shell covering just a few soft spots-is Dave Robicheaux's longtime friend and partner in detective work. But he has a troubled past. When Clete...