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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780380721214 ISBN: 038072121X Label: Avon Manufacturer: Avon Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: July 01, 1994 Publisher: Avon Release Date: July 01, 1994 Studio: Avon Editorial Review: Product Description: Hollywood has sent its emissaries to New Iberia Parish to film a Civil War epic in the steaming mists of the Louisiana bayou -- reawakening the ghosts of a past best left undisturbed. The restless specters wait in the shadows for cajun cop Dave Robicheaux -- as he hunts a serial butcher who is preying on the less-then-innocent young. For these spirits are the guardians of Robicheaux's darkest torments -- and they hold the key to his ultimate salvation...or a final, fatal downfall. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - An Early James Lee BurkeJames Lee Burke writes novels that are very atmospheric and rich in dialogue and characters. This is one of the early Dave Robicheaux crime novels. A movie ( financed by the mob) is being made around New Iberia. At the same time Dave is investigating a serial killer and the murder of a black man (over 30 years old). He is also having encounters with the spirit of a conferate general. Dave is investigating the serial killings with a female FBI agent who has her own demons.Somehow everything ... Read More Rating:  - Robicheaux, the Imperfect HeroI no longer believe James Lee Burke ever set out to write mystery novels, as his Dave Robicheaux series is characterized. Or if he did, that purpose was usurped some years ago. James Lee Burke is a precious, national treasure. He writes to me of sights and sounds and smells. His character invokes a longing and a quest for purpose and redemption midst the imperfections of the human spirit. James Lee Burke is a poet. In this book, Mr. Robicheaux is reconciling his past ... Read More Rating: - Electric MistThis book was highly enjoyable, and JLB is one of the finest writers you'll find today. He paints a picture that few writers can. Highly recommended! Rating: - GREAT FUN. WONDERFUL HOKUM. I loved it. Wonderful hokum. Exciting enough to keep me up till 4:00 a.m. but still pretty clean and very moral, with lots of believable details. The only crime writer I can read. His descriptions are beautiful, he moves the story well, he telegraphs his punches just enough, and the story doesn't seem formulaic. Masterful plotting, especially in the set-up with the hooker in the Buick. Great characters. At the ending, which is predictable but still great, I laughed out loud and cheered, almost at ... Read More Rating: - Haunting, modern, violent Louisiana Gothic.....Ex-cellent....If you know already know the writings of J.L.B., then I need say no more. If you don't, but have a decent vocabulary and think you might enjoy some action packed stories with a sense of melancholy, a violent (yet literary and well meaning) narrator, and tales of vicious crimes, punishment(and usually, revenge of some sort), set amidst the the jails and mean steets of New Orleans, and the bayous,rivers and small towns of South Lousiana, buy "The Neon Rain", and start at the beginning.The narrators ... Read More |
