New York Instances bestselling author and “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post) Adam Lee Burke is back with the twentieth mystery in the masterful Dave Robicheaux series.

Sadist and serial killer Asa Surrette narrowly escaped the death charges for the string of heinous murders he committed even though capital consequence was outlawed in Kansas. But following a group of damning content articles compiled by Dave Robicheaux’s child Alafair, Surrette escapes from a jail transport van and heads to Montana, about Light From the Globe: A Dave Robicheaux Novel where an unsuspecting Dave-along with Alafair; Dave’s wife, Molly; Dave’s faithful partner Clete; and Clete’s newfound girl, Gretchen Horowitz-have arrive to take in the sweet summertime air.

Surrette may be even worse than Dave’s old foe Legion Guidry, a guy Dave suspected might very well end up being the devil incarnate. But before Dave can stop Surrette from harming those he enjoys most, he’ll have to do battle with Love Younger, an enigmatic petrochemical magnate seeking to build an oil pipeline from Alberta to Tx, and Wyatt Dixon, a rodeo clown using a dark previous whom Burke followers will remember from his Billy Bob Holland books.

Says The Basic Seller (Cleveland), “Currently designated a Grand Get better at by the Secret Writers of America, Burke should get another title, mention, for sustained literary brilliance in his Dave Robicheaux series.” Drawing on real events that took place in Wichita, Kansas, more than a twenty-year span, Light from the Globe is normally a harrowing book that examines the type of wicked and pits Dave Robicheaux against probably the most diabolical villain he offers ever faced.