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In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (Mass Market Paperback)

by James Lee Burke (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Avon Books; Reprint edition (July 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 038072121X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0380721214
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,500,092 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A brilliantly stylish and atmospheric crime thriller featuring James Lee Burke'sCajun detective, Dave Robicheaux. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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James Lee Burke is the author of nineteen previous novels, including twelve featuring Detective Dave Robicheaux. He lives with his wife, Pearl, in Missoula, Montana and New Iberia, Louisiana. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Unsurpassed, 16 Jun 2003
This review is from: In Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (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.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite of the Robicheaux novels., 13 July 1999
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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.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great writer, great title, great book, 10 Aug 1999
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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 supernatural, reality and the surreal is quite superb. The evocation of the Bayou is even stronger in this book than the others, and the sense of history gives the story great depth. Allied to this is the detective work as well and neither Burke nor Robicheaux disappoint with Streak as tenacious as ever and the plot is very involved and complex. Read this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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
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"Dave Robicheaux, the southern Louisiana cop on a perennial comeback, is dried out, back on the force and remarried. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more
Published on 26 July 2007 by Mr. NJ LYLE

3.0 out of 5 stars ...
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

5.0 out of 5 stars best yet
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! Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite of Burke's novels featuring Dave Robicheaux.
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Of all Burke's novel featuring Dave Robicheaux, this is my favorite - a... Read more

Published on 11 July 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars 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
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