The New Iberia Blues
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 boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood director.
Robicheaux
"Burke is what fellow writers call a wordsmith. He can make your eyes water with a lyrical description."—New York Times Book Review
The Jealous Kind
"This book, with its larger-than-life characters, is a grand adventure, a sweeping love story and a tale of youth recollected in relative tranquility—its noirish reality tinged with a rosy glow, part of which comes from spilled blood."—The Wall Street Journal
Wayfaring Stranger
Publishers Weekly ★ 05/19/2014 Early in this epic American saga from MWA Grand Master Burke, Weldon Holland, the grandson of lawman and series character Hackberry Holland, has a chance run-in with Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in Texas, shortly before the notorious bank robbers are gunned down in Louisiana. Weldon has another, more significant coming-of-age […]
The Glass Rainbow : a Dave Robicheaux Novel
Library Journal: It takes an incredible writer to keep fresh an 18th novel featuring a character that refuses to change, but Burke does so with what may be one of the best in his Robicheaux series. . . . Burke also continues to set the gold standard when it comes to setting, making his readers […]