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Dave Robicheaux #4-6
Robcheaux: Tales from New Iberia
Includes: A Morning for Flamingos / A Stained White Radiance / In the Electric Mist with Confederate Death.
Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
About the author
James Lee Burke
120 books4,293 followersJames Lee Burke is an American author best known for his mysteries, particularly the Dave Robicheaux series. He has twice received the Edgar Award for Best Novel, for
Black Cherry Blues
in 1990 and
Cimarron Rose
in 1998.
Burke was born in Houston, Texas, but grew up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. He attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the University of Missouri, receiving a BA and MA from the latter. He has worked at a wide variety of jobs over the years, including working in the oil industry, as a reporter, and as a social worker. He was Writer in Residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, succeeding his good friend and posthumous Pulitzer Prize winner John Kennedy Toole, and preceding Ernest Gaines in the position. Shortly before his move to Montana, he taught for several years in the Creative Writing program at Wichita State University in the 1980s.
Burke and his wife, Pearl, split their time between Lolo, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana. Their daughter, Alafair Burke, is also a mystery novelist.
The book that has influenced his life the most is the 1929 family tragedy "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner.
Burke was born in Houston, Texas, but grew up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. He attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the University of Missouri, receiving a BA and MA from the latter. He has worked at a wide variety of jobs over the years, including working in the oil industry, as a reporter, and as a social worker. He was Writer in Residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, succeeding his good friend and posthumous Pulitzer Prize winner John Kennedy Toole, and preceding Ernest Gaines in the position. Shortly before his move to Montana, he taught for several years in the Creative Writing program at Wichita State University in the 1980s.
Burke and his wife, Pearl, split their time between Lolo, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana. Their daughter, Alafair Burke, is also a mystery novelist.
The book that has influenced his life the most is the 1929 family tragedy "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner.
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August 20, 2014
Saw the film of the 3rd book in this volume, with Tommy Lee Jones as Robicheaux; intrigued, I got this set of 3 books out - and loved them. Loved the style of writing, and the characterization.
August 11, 2026
Die Handlung und Szenerie erinnert mich stark and die erste Staffel der Serie True Detective.
Zunächst fand ich die Handlung und vor allem die geschilderten Morde und Tatorte spannend. Das Ende hielt dieser Spannung jedoch nicht Stand. Auch die irgendwann monoton erscheinenden Tätigkeiten und Schilderungen der Figuren erzeugten für mich in der Gesamtsicht einen eher langweiligen Roman.
Zunächst fand ich die Handlung und vor allem die geschilderten Morde und Tatorte spannend. Das Ende hielt dieser Spannung jedoch nicht Stand. Auch die irgendwann monoton erscheinenden Tätigkeiten und Schilderungen der Figuren erzeugten für mich in der Gesamtsicht einen eher langweiligen Roman.
August 13, 2023
Love James Lee Burke novels. The best descriptive writing. He is able to bring flawed characters into a soft focus where we see the person but still are invested in their story.
June 2, 2014
I'm not a lazy reader, neither am I the most disciplined, but I'm shocked at the number of people who don't love James Lee Burke. So many individuals write that it's almost drudgery reading about Dave Robichaux. I'm shocked. For the last two years I have counted the days until the next novel came out.
March 20, 2009
Just started this one. It seems to bounce back and forth between cold hard action and attempts at character building.
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