Purple Cane Road
Author(s): James Lee Burke
Since his youth, New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux has regulated his missing mother, Mae Guillory, to the deepest recesses of his memory. Dave is then asked by a pimp if he's Mae Guillory's son, who tells him she was murdered by cops 35 years before. Now Dave crosses lines of colors and class, going to any length to bring her killers to justice.
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"America's best novelist."
-- "The Denver Post"
"A thoroughly absorbing mystery packed with the colorful characters and moral dilemmas that have turned Dave Robicheaux into one of the more vivid literary creations of the last 20 years."
-- "Daily News" (New York)
"Nobody writes about the bad old days down South like James Lee Burke."
-- "The New York Times"
"No other living writer has been more influential on the contemporary crime novel than James Lee Burke.... This one is his best."
-- Michael Connelly, author of Void Moon
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Available from Dell
General Fields
- :
- : dell1
- : dell1
- : 0.204
- : 30 April 2001
- : 182mm X 101mm X 27mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 400
- : Paperback / softback
- : James Lee Burke
