Adam Lee Burke’s most beloved personality, Dave Robicheaux, earnings in this NY Times bestselling mystery set in the towns and backwoods of Louisiana: an “enthralling yet grim book that…will captivate, begin to surface finish” (Publishers Weekly).

Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. From your acts he committed in Vietnam, to his battles with alcoholism, to the sudden lack of his much loved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift in one irreconcilable memory to the next. Images of ghosts pepper his actuality..Read More about Robicheaux: A Book Robicheaux’s only beacon remains serving being a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana.

It’s in that capacity that Robicheaux crosses pathways with powerful mob boss, Tony Nemo. Tony has a Civil War sword he’d prefer to give to Levon Broussard, a popular local writer whose books have been adapted into main Hollywood films. After that there’s Jimmy Nightengale, the youthful poster son of New Orleans wealth and glamour. Jimmy’s fond of Levon’s work, and even fonder of his gorgeous, enigmatic wife, Rowena. Tony thinks Jimmy could be a US Senator someday, and has the assets and clout to create it happen. There’s something off about the relationship among these three males, and after a vicious assault, it’s up to Robicheaux to discover the truth “in the barn-burner of a climax” (Booklist, starred review).

Complicating matters is the sudden death of the brand new Iberian local responsible for Molly’s death; namely that Robicheaux’s colleague feels Robicheaux had something regarding it. As Robicheaux functions to clear his name and make sense from the murder, a harrowing study of America emerges: this nation’s abiding turmoil between a feeling of past grandeur and a legacy of pity, its easy seduction by demagogues and wealth, and its predilection for assault and revenge. “It has been nearly five years since Wayne Lee Burke’s last Dave Robicheaux novel, and it was absolutely worthy of the wait around” (Associated Press).