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Rene Shade Series

3 primary works • 4 total works
Rene Shade is a police detective in the bayou town of St. Bruno, Louisiana.

Book 1

Under the Bright Lights
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3.54 · 898 Ratings · 115 Reviews · published 1986 · 2 editions
When a city councilman is gunned down, Rene Shade …

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    Book 2

    Muscle for the Wing
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    3.69     · 624 Ratings · 60 Reviews · published 1988 · 1 edition
    A darkly comic crime novel finds detective Rene Sh…

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    Book 3

    The Ones You Do
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    3.88     · 548 Ratings · 53 Reviews · published 1988 · 14 editions
    When his drunken father, a onetime pool hustler st…

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    Book 1-3

    The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do
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    3.76     · 1867 Ratings · 212 Reviews · published 2011 · 17 editions
    A hard-hitting, critically acclaimed trilogy of cr…

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