Author: James Lee Burke Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Detective
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ISBNs: 9780440224044 0440224047 |
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Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass onto the son. But what has his mother's legacy left him? Dead to him since youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Dave's mind. He's lived with the fact that he would never really know what happened to the woman who left him to the devices of his whiskey-driven father. But deep down, he still feels the loss of his mother and knows the infinite series of disappointments in her life could not have come to a good end.
While helping out an old friend, Dave is stunned when a pimp looks at him sideways and asks him if he is Mae Guillory's boy, the whore a bunch of cops murdered 30 years ago. The pimp goes on to insinuate that the cops who dumped her body in the bayou were on the take and continue to thrive in the New Orleans area.
Dave's search for his mother's killers leads him to the darker places in his past and solving this case teaches him what it means to be his mother's son. Purple Cane Road has the dimensions of a classic-passion, murder, and nearly heartbreaking poignancy-wrapped in a wonderfully executed plot that surprises from start to finish.
This book is part of the "Dave Robicheaux" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Light of the World" First published in 2013 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Glass Rainbow" First published in 2010 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Swan Peak" First published in 2008 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Pegasus Descending" First published in 2006 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Crusader's Cross" First published in 2005 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Jolie Blon's Bounce" First published in 2002 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Sunset Limited" First published in 1996 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Cadillac Jukebox" First published in 1996 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Burning Angel" First published in 1995 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Dixie City Jam" First published in 1994 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Black Cherry Blues" First published in 1989 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Heaven's Prisoners" First published in 1988 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Neon Rain" First published in 1987 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Creole Belle" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Robicheaux" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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