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The refreshing thing about James Lee Burke's new Dave Robicheaux thriller Last Car to Elysian Fields is that Dave, in many details of the case, is allowed to make a mess of things. We always get uneasy when a series detective is too perfect and the death of his wife and the departure of his daughter to college have robbed currently dry alcoholic Dave of his good angels. His bad angel on the other hand, his roughneck detective friend Clete, is still in rumbustious, corner-cutting violent business as he and Dave connect up the dots and find the links between an IRA hit man with a conscience, a long-dead blues singer, a priest crusading against illegal dumping and yet another of Dave's disturbed upper-crust exes. The atmosphere is always important here--the glamour, glitz and squalor of New Orleans and the fragile beauty of the Louisiana coastline and swamps. What is particularly significant here, though, is a sense of the characters having spiritual lives as well as a daily grind of coffee and pancakes and sniffing the fresh sea air; James Lee Burke writes thrillers with real heart. --Roz KaveneyRead More

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    'A lyrical and lovely novel that takes Burke back to the top of the crimewriting tree where he richly belongs' Independent On Sunday

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    It is a rainy late-summer's night in New Orleans. Detective Dave Robicheaux is about to confront the man who may have savagely assaulted his friend Father Jimmie Dolan a Catholic priest who's always at the centre of controversy. But things are never as they seem and soon Robicheaux is back in New Iberia probing a car crash that killed three teenage girls. A grief-crazed father and a maniacal complex assassin are just a few of the characters Robicheaux meets as he is drawn deeper into a web of sordid secrets and escalating violence. A masterful exploration of the troubled side of human nature and the dark corners of the heart peopled by familiar characters such as P.I. Clete Purcel and Robicheaux's old flame Theodosia LeJeune LAST CAR TO ELYSIAN FIELDS is vintage Burke - moody hard-hitting with his trademark blend of human drama and relentless noir suspense.

  • 0753817969
  • 9780753817964
  • James Lee Burke
  • 7 October 2004
  • Phoenix
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 320
  • New Ed
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