Dave Robicheaux Series #18
Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
July 2010
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Featuring: Alafair Robicheaux; Dave Robicheaux; Clete Purcel
448 pages ISBN: 1439128294 EAN: 9781439128299 Hardcover Add to Wish List
James Lee Burke’s eagerly awaited new novel finds
Detective Dave Robicheaux back in New Iberia, Louisiana, and
embroiled in the most harrowing and dangerous case of his
career. Seven young women in neighboring Jefferson Davis
Parish have been brutally murdered. While the crimes have
all the telltale signs of a serial killer, the death of
Bernadette Latiolais, a high school honor student, doesn’t
fit: she is not the kind of hapless and marginalized victim
psychopaths usually prey upon. Robicheaux and his best
friend, Clete Purcel, confront Herman Stanga, a notorious
pimp and crack dealer whom both men despise. When Stanga
turns up dead shortly after a fierce beating by Purcel, in
front of numerous witnesses, the case takes a nasty turn,
and Clete’s career and life are hanging by threads over the
abyss.
Adding to Robicheaux’s troubles is the matter of
his daughter, Alafair, on leave from Stanford Law to put the
finishing touches on her novel. Her literary pursuit has led
her into the arms of Kermit Abelard, celebrated novelist and
scion of a once prominent Louisiana family whose fortunes
are slowly sinking into the corruption of Louisiana’s
subculture. Abelard’s association with bestselling
ex-convict author Robert Weingart, a man who uses and
discards people like Kleenex, causes Robicheaux to fear that
Alafair might be destroyed by the man she loves. As his
daughter seems to drift away from him, he wonders if he has
become a victim of his own paranoia. But as usual,
Robicheaux’s instincts are proven correct and he finds
himself dealing with a level of evil that is greater than
any enemy he has confronted in the past.
Set against the
backdrop of an Edenic paradise threatened by pernicious
forces, James Lee Burke’s The Glass Rainbow is
already being hailed as perhaps the best novel in the
Robicheaux series.
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