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När två unga morddömda män skall förflyttas lyckas de fly efter att ha dödat två män, varav en polis. En annan polis, Dave, överlever och tar upp jakten på mördarna, varav en är en psykopat som njuter av att döda. Jakten når sin kulmen när Dave lyckats nästla sig in i ett narkotikasyndikat.

Lovens lange arm er aldrig lang nok i den lille sydvestlige grænseby i Texas, hvor Hackberry Holland er sat til at sørge for lov og orden. USA og ikke mindst Texas synes at være på sammenbruddets rand. Det samme kan siges om Hackberry Holland, der stadig er i sorg over tabet af sin elskede hustru. Han har rodet sig ud i en farefuld romance med sin vicesheriff, Pam Tibbs. Hackberry Holland fungerer som ondskabens magnet i ørkenens grænseland, måske i forsøget på at holde sine egne dæmoner i skak.

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.

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.

Nach seinem Abschied von der Mordkommission in New Orleans hat sich Dave Robicheaux ins Delta des Mississippi zurückgezogen und einen Bootsverleih aufgemacht. Als er beim Krabbenfischen Augenzeuge eines Flugzeugabsturzes wird, holt das Verbrechen ihn wieder ein. Der Expolizist, der selbst ein kleines Mädchen aus dem Wrack rettet, wird stutzig, als die Behörden bei der Zahl der Opfer mogeln. Als er auf eigene Faust Nachforschungen anstellt, hagelt es Drohungen, und die Welt des Bayou versinkt in einen blutigen Alptraum.

"Everything You've Always Wanted" by Mick Garris: It was supposed to be the night of his life - a celebration of his one hit slasher flick. But the price of admission is higher than this has-been filmmaker ever could have imagined. "The Land of Sunshine" by Kealan Patrick Burke: Although she was mute long before the affair that nearly wrecked their marriage, her silence has tortured her husband ever since. Now he will seek out what he has lost or be driven mad by remorse.

Set in the rugged Bitterroot valley of Montana - home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life and xenophobes dedicated to establishing a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia - Bitterroot features Billy Bob Holland, former Texas Ranger and now a Texas-based lawyer, who has come to Big Sky country at the request of an old friend in trouble.

A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast.

Texas, 1934: Weldon Holland fristet in der Ödnis von Texas ein perspektivloses Dasein. Einzig das Gangsterpärchen Bonnie und Clyde, das nach einem Bankraub auf dem Grundstück campiert, durchbricht die Monotonie. Zehn Jahre später überlebt Weldon als Leutnant nur knapp die Ardennenoffensive und rettet die jüdische Kriegsgefangene Rosita Lowenstein.

"America's best novelist" ( The Denver Post), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals of the Deep South – the people, the crime, the hope and despair infused in the bayou landscape. This stunning anthology takes us back to where Burke's heart and soul beat -- the steamy, seamy Gulf Coast -- in complex and fascinating tales that crackle with violence and menace, meshing his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style.

Swan Peak finds Detective Robicheaux far from his New Iberia roots, attempting to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montana. He, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcell have retreated to stay at an old friend's ranch, hoping to spend their days fishing and enjoying their distance from the harsh, gritty landscape of Louisiana post-Katrina.

Celebrated crime master and two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke returns with a gorgeously crafted, brutally resonant chronicle of violence along the Texas-Mexico border. Sheriff Hackberry Holland patrols a small Southwest Texas border town, meting out punishment and delivering justice in his small square of this magnificent but lawless land. When an alcoholic ex-boxer named Danny Boy Lorca begs to be locked up after witnessing a man tortured to death by a group of bandits, Hack and his deputy, Pam Tibbs, slowly extract the Indian man’s gruesome tale.

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

In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast proves to be a versatile setting for Burke's stories, which cover the scope of the human experience, from love and sex to domestic abuse, to war and death and friendship.

Critically acclaimed and best-selling crime writer James Lee Burke returns to Louisiana where his ever-popular hero, Dave Robicheaux, sleuths his way through a hotbed of sin and uncertainty.

Danny Boy Lorca ist das Entsetzen ins Gesicht geschrieben, als er sich ins Büro von Sheri Hackberry Holland schleppt. In der Wüste nahe der texanisch-mexikanischen Grenze wurde er Zeuge eines brutalen Mordes. Von einem zweiten Gefangenen fehlt jede Spur. Hackberry Holland hat erneut alle Hände voll zu tun, um für Gerechtigkeit zu sorgen.

Detective Dave Robicheaux is facing the most painful and dangerous case of his career. A troubled young woman breezes into his hometown of New Iberia, Louisiana. She happens to be the daughter of Robicheaux's onetime best friend, a friend he witnessed gunned down in a bank robbery, a tragedy that forever changed Robicheaux's life.

In a startling departure, James Lee Burke has written an epic story of love, hate, and survival set against the tumultuous background of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Booklist calls White Doves "an epic filmed in tight focus, taking us from secession to Reconstruction at an intensely personal level."

Tsunamien Katrina har ramt det sydlige Louisiana og New Orleans med fuld hammer. Med større kraft end den bombe, der faldt over Hiroshima. Kriminalbetjent Dave Robicheaux holder normalt til i New Iberia, i omegnen af New Orleans, men de sidste sommerdage i 2005 bliver han rykket tilbage, hvor han kom fra, til New Orleans. Det er ikke nogen nostalgisk hjemkomst, der venter ham. Befolkningen har evakueret sig selv, myndighederne er sat skakmat eller er fraværende.

Creole Belle begins where the last book in the Dave Robicheaux series, The Glass Rainbow, ended. Dave is in a recovery unit in New Orleans, where a Creole girl named Tee Jolie Melton visits him and leaves him an iPod with the country blues song “Creole Belle” on it. Then she disappears. Dave becomes obsessed with the song and the memory of Tee Jolie and goes in search of her sister, who later turns up inside a block of ice floating in the Gulf.