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Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass onto the son. But what has his mother's legacy left him? Dead to him since youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Dave's mind. He's lived with the fact that he would never really know what happened to the woman who left him to the devices of his whiskey-driven father. But deep down, he still feels the loss of his mother and knows the infinite series of disappointments in her life could not have come to a good end. While helping out an old friend, Dave is stunned when a pimp looks at him sideways and asks him if he is Mae Guillory's boy, the whore a bunch of cops murdered 30 years ago. The pimp goes on to insinuate that the cops who dumped her body in the bayou were on the take and continue to thrive in the New Orleans area. Dave's search for his mother's killers leads him to the darker places in his past and solving this case teaches him what it means to be his mother's son. PURPLE CANE ROAD has the dimensions of a classic-passion, murder, and nearly heartbreaking poignancy-wrapped in a wonderfully executed plot that surpises from start to finish.

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Publisher
Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0385488440
ISBN-13
9780385488440
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1629190

Product Key Features

Book Title
Purple Cane Road
Author
James Lee Burke
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Thrillers / Suspense
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
22.2 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3552.U723p87 2000
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"America's best novelist." --The Denver Post "A thoroughly absorbing mystery packed with the colorful characters and moral dilemmas that have turned Dave Robicheaux into one of the more vivid literary creations of the last 20 years." --Daily News(New York) "Nobody writes about the bad old days down South like James Lee Burke." --The New York Times "No other living writer has been more influential on the contemporary crime novel than James Lee Burke.... This one is his best." -- Michael Connelly, author ofVoid Moon Don't miss James Lee Burke's sensational bestsellers: Heartwood "A heartfelt, passionate book ... powerfully bittersweet." --The Seattle Times Sunset Limited "Splendidly atmospheric ... with dialogue so sharp you can shave with it." --People Available from Dell From the Paperback edition., "America's best novelist." -- The Denver Post "A thoroughly absorbing mystery packed with the colorful characters and moral dilemmas that have turned Dave Robicheaux into one of the more vivid literary creations of the last 20 years." -- Daily News (New York) "Nobody writes about the bad old days down South like James Lee Burke." -- The New York Times "No other living writer has been more influential on the contemporary crime novel than James Lee Burke.... This one is his best." -- Michael Connelly, author of Void Moon Don't miss James Lee Burke's sensational bestsellers: Heartwood "A heartfelt, passionate book ... powerfully bittersweet." -- The Seattle Times Sunset Limited "Splendidly atmospheric ... with dialogue so sharp you can shave with it." -- People Available from Dell, "America's best novelist." --The Denver Post "A thoroughly absorbing mystery packed with the colorful characters and moral dilemmas that have turned Dave Robicheaux into one of the more vivid literary creations of the last 20 years." --Daily News(New York) "Nobody writes about the bad old days down South like James Lee Burke." --The New York Times "No other living writer has been more influential on the contemporary crime novel than James Lee Burke.... This one is his best." -- Michael Connelly, author ofVoid Moon Don't miss James Lee Burke's sensational bestsellers: Heartwood "A heartfelt, passionate book ... powerfully bittersweet." --The Seattle Times Sunset Limited "Splendidly atmospheric ... with dialogue so sharp you can shave with it." --People Available from Dell
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
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Lccn
99-054080
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Series
Dave Robicheaux Ser.
Dewey Edition
22

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3 out of 5 stars
by nunonna05Dec 09, 2008
purple cane road
PURPLE CANE ROAD is the best Robicheaux tale to date and that is saying a lot since author James Lee Burke has two Edgars to his credit. The story line is crisp and exciting as expected from the novels in this series. However, this time the plot turns personal which allows the audience to see much of the inner sanctum of Dave's soul. One of the great, perhaps the greatest mystery writer of the past decade, Mr. Burke scores on all cylinders with this taut thriller
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by mamasbooks.903Jul 12, 2021
One of the best by Burke
Burke has written many novels, but this was one of his best. In the book, Robichaeux remembers his childhood in the bayou and his rough, Cajun father. The writing is amazing, the plotting is perfect, and the atmosphere of south Louisiana shines through.
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