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The sixth Dave Robicheaux novel from SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author James Lee Burke.
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Hunting a sadistic killer who targets young prostitutes, Detective Dave Robicheaux has no mind to be sidetracked into persuading ex-schoolmate mobster Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni to leave town. And it turns out that Balboni is the money behind a Civil War movie that's bringing in good business.
But then the film crew stumble on a skeleton out in the bayou, and the links between a thirty-year-old lynching, a Civil War general, Balboni and the serial killer lead Dave into treacherous waters, with only a handful of unexpected allies to help him protect his own.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a strange but compelling book, and the first Dave Robicheaux novel that I read (DR being the New Orleans policeman who is the central character). This book has a fractured plot, jumping between the present day and the American Civil War, and Robicheaux's viewpoint is distorted by his recovery from alcoholism.
But the story has a freshness that is lost in later novels, which tend to portray the villains and victims as caricatures, while painting an increasingly humourless picture of Robicheaux.
Buy this book, and read it carefully - you will enjoy it. It's not a crime thriller pure and simple, and it's not Pullitzer material either (although I think it was nominated). It's something in between, and it firmly establishes James Lee Burke as one of the great popular crime fiction writers of the last decade.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
All the Dave Robicheaux novels are excellent, but this one sings. The hallucinatory prose is as thick and rich as the swamplands it describes. Dave talks to some curious characters here, some of whom may or may not be of this world. And that's the way it should be. This one will keep you guessing.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
It's like you are right there with Dave. R. sweating away in the humid heat. I sure would like to get ahold of some of that food they are always eating! I agree with everyone below. Highly recommended
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Brilliant - a great book
This is a brilliant book, very well written, full of atmosphere and a grim sense of humour. It just grips you and makes you want to read it all in one go. I strongly recommend it.
Published 10 months ago by Sophia
One of the best in the series
The flawed central charater of Dave Robicheaux, makes what might otherwise be a stretching plot premise to be all the more believeable. Read more
Published on 29 Oct 2009 by tontowilliams
From the back cover....
"Dave Robicheaux, the southern Louisiana cop on a perennial comeback, is dried out, back on the force and remarried. Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2008 by Angel Silver
Old Friends come to Visit
What can one say about James Lee Burke that hasn't been said before ? Another great read with characters coming out every other page and some of them not even alive. Read more
Published on 3 Dec 2007 by G. M. Buchanan
A book that's hard to put down!
This is the first encounter I have had with James Lee Burke and it won't be the last!
This is an exciting crime novel, the characters are larger than life and Burke's... Read more
This is an exciting crime novel, the characters are larger than life and Burke's... Read more
Published on 26 July 2007 by Mr. NJ LYLE
Great writer, great title, great book
Robicheaux always gives you something quite surprising, and Confederate Dead is no exception. The way in which Burke explores the fine line between the natural and the... Read more
Published on 10 Aug 1999
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Agreed that James Lee Burke writes like an angel. His flawed hero Robicheaux is believeable and engaging; the prose is at once elegiac and grounded. But the plots ! Read more
Published on 7 Aug 1999
Absolutely the best!
I don't know anyone who tops James Lee Burke for excellence in crime fiction; his characters, their development from book to book, the relationships, the dialogue, the humor, the... Read more
Published on 21 July 1999
My favorite of Burke's novels featuring Dave Robicheaux.
In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead James Lee Burke Hyperion Publishers Copyright 1993
Of all Burke's novel featuring Dave Robicheaux, this is my favorite - a... Read more
Published on 11 July 1999
good, but the scenes with the confederates are a bit much
Ever since I was required to read Black Cherry Blues for a writing class at the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop, I have been fan of James Lee Burke. Read more
Published on 6 April 1997
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