James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

All Books By James Lee Burke

A Morning for Flamingos
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A Morning for Flamingos
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: James Lee Burke
  • Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: April 25, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (5234 ratings)
(5234 ratings)
Dave Robicheaux felt the bone-grinding pain rip through his body as the .45 did its damage. Through the agonizing haze that enveloped him, he heard an almost inhuman laugh-the hideous, victorious cackling of Jimmie Lee Boggs-a sound he would never... Read more
A Private Cathedral
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A Private Cathedral
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2020
  • Language: English
  • (3646 ratings)
(3646 ratings)
After finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana’s oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin.The Shondell and... Read more
A Season of Regret
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A Season of Regret
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Ron McLarty
  • Length: 45 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (7 ratings)
(7 ratings)
A short story from one of the country‚Äôs most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke’s story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.
A Stained White Radiance
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A Stained White Radiance
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 1996
  • Language: English
  • (6662 ratings)
(6662 ratings)
Detective Dave Robicheaux travels to the mountains of Montana to help his best friend and unearths a larger plot that threatens them both.Oil speculator Weldon Sonnier is the patriarch of a troubled family intimately bound to the CIA, the Mob, and... Read more
A Stained White Radiance
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A Stained White Radiance
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Mark Hammer
  • Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (6662 ratings)
(6662 ratings)
Detective Dave Robicheaux travels to the mountains of Montana to help his best friend and unearths a larger plot that threatens them both.Oil speculator Weldon Sonnier is the patriarch of a troubled family intimately bound to the CIA, the Mob, and... Read more
Another Kind of Eden
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Another Kind of Eden
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2021
  • Language: English
  • (1686 ratings)
(1686 ratings)
New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields,... Read more
Bitterroot
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Bitterroot
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2001
  • Language: English
  • (2852 ratings)
(2852 ratings)
Following his acclaimed bestseller Purple Cane Road, James Lee Burke returns with a triumphant tour de force.Set in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life, as well as to xenophobes... Read more
Bitterroot
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Bitterroot
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Tom Stechschulte
  • Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (2852 ratings)
(2852 ratings)
Following his acclaimed bestseller Purple Cane Road, James Lee Burke returns with a triumphant tour de force.Set in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life, as well as to xenophobes... Read more
Black Cherry Blues
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Black Cherry Blues
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: James Lee Burke
  • Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: May 23, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (12597 ratings)
(12597 ratings)
Dave Robicheaux had begun to put the pieces of his broken life together again when an old friend turned up on his doorstep, dredging up old memories and new threats.
Burning Angel
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Burning Angel
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 1995
  • Language: English
  • (102 ratings)
(102 ratings)
A BRUTAL LEGACY OF CRUELTY AND HATE IS AWAKENED IN THE BAYOUWhen Sonny Boy Marsallus returns to New Iberia after fleeingfor Central America to avoid the wrath of the powerful Giacanafamily, his old troubles soon follow. Meanwhile DaveRobicheaux... Read more
Burning Angel
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Burning Angel
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Mark Hammer
  • Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (4896 ratings)
(4896 ratings)
A BRUTAL LEGACY OF CRUELTY AND HATE IS AWAKENED IN THE BAYOUWhen Sonny Boy Marsallus returns to New Iberia after fleeingfor Central America to avoid the wrath of the powerful Giacanafamily, his old troubles soon follow. Meanwhile DaveRobicheaux... Read more
Burning Angel “International Edition”
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Burning Angel “International Edition”
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Length: 14 hours 12 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: June 07, 2022
  • Language: English
Sweet Pea Chaisson has parked his pink Cadillac convertible full of hookers in the parking lot of a convenience store in Spanish Lake, Louisiana. He’s causing a commotion, but not because of the car or the women–his mother’s coffin... Read more
Cadillac Jukebox
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Cadillac Jukebox
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Mark Hammer
  • Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 1996
  • Language: English
  • (102 ratings)
(102 ratings)
James Lee Burke has been hailed as a “national treasure” (Tampa Bay Times), and in his ninth Dave Robicheaux thriller, it’s easy to see why. This taut, twisted tale of corruption in the Louisiana bayou truly brands Burke as... Read more
Cadillac Jukebox “International Edition”
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Cadillac Jukebox “International Edition”
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Length: 12 hours 1 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: May 31, 2022
  • Language: English
Bestselling author James Lee Burke returns to delight audiobook listeners who crave fast-paced crime fiction with Cadillac Jukebox. This thunderous and introspective audiobook–the ninth book of the award-winning series–pits the earthy... Read more
Cimarron Rose
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Cimarron Rose
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Tom Stechschulte
  • Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (248 ratings)
(248 ratings)
Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland must confront the past in order to save his illegitimate son from a murder conviction in this brilliant, fast-paced thriller from beloved New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.Lucas Smothers, nineteen and... Read more
Cimarron Rose
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Cimarron Rose
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 1997
  • Language: English
  • (248 ratings)
(248 ratings)
Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland must confront the past in order to save his illegitimate son from a murder conviction in this brilliant, fast-paced thriller from beloved New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.Lucas Smothers, nineteen and... Read more
Cimarron Rose “International Edition”
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Cimarron Rose “International Edition”
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: June 07, 2022
  • Language: English
James Lee Burke, bestselling author of the Louisiana-based Dave Robicheaux crime fiction series, now begins a new series with a new landscape. In Cimarron Rose, Burke brings his talent for lyrical writing and hard-edged suspense to the American... Read more
Creole Belle
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Creole Belle
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (5858 ratings)
(5858 ratings)
“America’s best novelist” James Lee Burke returns with another New York Times bestselling entry in the Dave Robicheaux thriller series (The Denver Post).Set against the events of the Gulf Coast oil spill, rife with “the... Read more
Creole Belle
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Creole Belle
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 18 hours 6 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (5858 ratings)
(5858 ratings)
“America’s best novelist” James Lee Burke returns with another New York Times bestselling entry in the Dave Robicheaux thriller series (The Denver Post).Set against the events of the Gulf Coast oil spill, rife with “the... Read more
Crusader’s Cross
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Crusader’s Cross
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2005
  • Language: English
  • (6187 ratings)
(6187 ratings)
Critically acclaimed and bestselling crime writer James Lee Burke returns to Louisiana where his ever-popular hero, Dave Robicheaux, sleuths his way through a hotbed of sin and uncertainty.For Dave Robicheaux, life in Louisiana is filled with... Read more
Crusader’s Cross
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Crusader’s Cross
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2005
  • Language: English
  • (6187 ratings)
(6187 ratings)
Critically acclaimed and bestselling crime writer James Lee Burke returns to Louisiana where his ever-popular hero, Dave Robicheaux, sleuths his way through a hotbed of sin and uncertainty.For Dave Robicheaux, life in Louisiana is filled with... Read more
Dixie City Jam
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Dixie City Jam
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 1994
  • Language: English
  • (5688 ratings)
(5688 ratings)
A FORGOTTEN NAZI SUB BRINGS OLD HATREDS TO THE SURFACEThey’re out there, under the salt — the bodies of German seamen who used to lie in wait at the mouth of the Mississippi for unescorted American tankers sailing from the oil refineries... Read more
Dixie City Jam
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Dixie City Jam
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Mark Hammer
  • Length: 14 hours 46 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (5688 ratings)
(5688 ratings)
A FORGOTTEN NAZI SUB BRINGS OLD HATREDS TO THE SURFACEThey’re out there, under the salt — the bodies of German seamen who used to lie in wait at the mouth of the Mississippi for unescorted American tankers sailing from the oil refineries... Read more
Every Cloak Rolled in Blood
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Every Cloak Rolled in Blood
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2022
  • Language: English
  • (1013 ratings)
(1013 ratings)
In his most autobiographical novel to date, James Lee Burke continues the epic Holland family saga with a writer grieving the death of his daughter while battling earthly and supernatural outlaws.Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when... Read more
Feast Day of Fools
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Feast Day of Fools
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 16 hours 11 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (3741 ratings)
(3741 ratings)
Winner of the 2012 Audie Award for MysteryThe critically acclaimed thirtieth entry from New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke, featuring Texas Sheriff Hackberry Holland in an epic tale that is equal parts thriller, Western, and literary... Read more
Feast Day of Fools
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Feast Day of Fools
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (3741 ratings)
(3741 ratings)
Winner of the 2012 Audie Award for MysteryThe critically acclaimed thirtieth entry from New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke, featuring Texas Sheriff Hackberry Holland in an epic tale that is equal parts thriller, Western, and literary... Read more
Half of Paradise
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Half of Paradise
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Mark Zeisler
  • Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2013
  • Language: English
  • (669 ratings)
(669 ratings)
Discover James Lee Burke’s debut novel–before the creation of his now-famous Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux–as he follows the lives of three very different young Louisiana men, each of whom finds himself in desperate... Read more
Heartwood
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Heartwood
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Alan Sklar
  • Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (2267 ratings)
(2267 ratings)
Few writers in America today combine James Lee Burke’s lush prose, cracking story lines, and tremendous sense of history and landscape. In Cimarron Rose, longtime fans of the Dave Robicheaux series found that the struggles of Texas defense... Read more
Heartwood
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Heartwood
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 1999
  • Language: English
  • (2267 ratings)
(2267 ratings)
Few writers in America today combine James Lee Burke’s lush prose, cracking story lines, and tremendous sense of history and landscape. In Cimarron Rose, longtime fans of the Dave Robicheaux series found that the struggles of Texas defense... Read more
Heaven’s Prisoners
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Heaven’s Prisoners
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 3 hours 15 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 1996
  • Language: English
  • (7349 ratings)
(7349 ratings)
James Lee Burke’s second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou as he seeks a quieter life.Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective’s badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has... Read more
House of the Rising Sun
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House of the Rising Sun
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2015
  • Language: English
  • (2415 ratings)
(2415 ratings)
Bestselling author James Lee Burke’s “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) masterpiece is the story of a father and son separated by war, circumstance, and a race for the Holy Grail–a thrilling entry in the Holland... Read more
House of The Rising Sun
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House of The Rising Sun
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 14 hours 59 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2015
  • Language: English
  • (2415 ratings)
(2415 ratings)
Bestselling author James Lee Burke’s “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) masterpiece is the story of a father and son separated by war, circumstance, and a race for the Holy Grail–a thrilling entry in the Holland... Read more
In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead
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In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 1993
  • Language: English
  • (7650 ratings)
(7650 ratings)
The sixth in the New York Times bestselling Dave Robicheaux series delivers a heart-pounding bayou manhunt—and features “one of the coolest, earthiest heroes in thrillerdom” (Entertainment Weekly ). When Hollywood invades New... Read more
In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead
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In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Mark Hammer
  • Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (7650 ratings)
(7650 ratings)
The sixth in the New York Times bestselling Dave Robicheaux series delivers a heart-pounding bayou manhunt–and features “one of the coolest, earthiest heroes in thrillerdom” (Entertainment Weekly ). When Hollywood invades New... Read more
In the Moon of Red Ponies
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In the Moon of Red Ponies
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Tom Stechschulte
  • Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2004
  • Language: English
  • (2291 ratings)
(2291 ratings)
Haunting suspense and captivating villains, the hallmark of James Lee Burke’s bestselling novels of evil and redemption, are brilliantly evoked in his new Billy Bob Holland opus, the follow-up to the popular and critically acclaimed... Read more
In the Moon of Red Ponies
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In the Moon of Red Ponies
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2004
  • Language: English
  • (2291 ratings)
(2291 ratings)
Haunting suspense and captivating villains, the hallmark of James Lee Burke’s bestselling novels of evil and redemption, are brilliantly evoked in his new Billy Bob Holland opus, the follow-up to the popular and critically acclaimed... Read more
Jesus Out to Sea
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Jesus Out to Sea
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Ron McLarty
  • Length: 26 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (880 ratings)
(880 ratings)
INCLUDES THE STORY “WINTER LIGHT,” THE BASIS FOR THE FILM GOD’S COUNTRY STARRING THANDIWE NEWTON​ One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered around the... Read more
Jesus Out To Sea Collection
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Jesus Out To Sea Collection
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Ron McLarty
  • Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast proves to... Read more
Jolie Blon’s Bounce
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Jolie Blon’s Bounce
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2002
  • Language: English
  • (6400 ratings)
(6400 ratings)
Dave Robicheaux is back in this powerful New York Times bestseller that takes him into the underbelly of New Iberia’s mafia to solve the brutal murder of two teenage girls.When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, New Iberia police detective... Read more
Jolie Blon’s Bounce
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Jolie Blon’s Bounce
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Mark Hammer
  • Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2002
  • Language: English
  • (6400 ratings)
(6400 ratings)
Dave Robicheaux is back in this powerful New York Times bestseller that takes him into the underbelly of New Iberia’s mafia to solve the brutal murder of two teenage girls.When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, New Iberia police detective... Read more
Last Car to Elysian Fields
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Last Car to Elysian Fields
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2003
  • Language: English
  • (4319 ratings)
(4319 ratings)
Sheriff Dave Robicheaux returns to New Orleans to investigate the beating of a controversial Catholic priest and murder of three teenage girls in this intense, atmospheric entry in the New York Times bestselling series.For Dave Robicheaux, there is... Read more
Last Car to Elysian Fields
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Last Car to Elysian Fields
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Mark Hammer
  • Length: 14 hours 20 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2003
  • Language: English
  • (4319 ratings)
(4319 ratings)
Sheriff Dave Robicheaux returns to New Orleans to investigate the beating of a controversial Catholic priest and murder of three teenage girls in this intense, atmospheric entry in the New York Times bestselling series.For Dave Robicheaux, there is... Read more
Lay Down My Sword and Shield
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Lay Down My Sword and Shield
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2010
  • Language: English
  • (1874 ratings)
(1874 ratings)
Vintage James Lee Burke: The first novel introducing the memorable Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland, coming of age against the backdrop of the civil rights era in a sultry border town.In hot and sultry Texas, Hack, an attorney and Korean War POW, is... Read more
Light Of the World
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Light Of the World
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2013
  • Language: English
  • (4613 ratings)
(4613 ratings)
New York Times bestselling author and “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post) James Lee Burke is back with the twentieth mystery in the masterful Dave Robicheaux series.Sadist and serial killer Asa Surrette narrowly escaped the... Read more
Light Of the World
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Light Of the World
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 19 hours 3 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2013
  • Language: English
  • (4613 ratings)
(4613 ratings)
New York Times bestselling author and “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post) James Lee Burke is back with the twentieth mystery in the masterful Dave Robicheaux series.Sadist and serial killer Asa Surrette narrowly escaped the... Read more
Mist
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Mist
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Ron McLarty
  • Length: 36 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (7650 ratings)
(7650 ratings)
A short story from one of the country‚Äôs most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke’s story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.
Pegasus Descending
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Pegasus Descending
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2006
  • Language: English
  • (5725 ratings)
(5725 ratings)
Dave Robicheaux is back in a dangerous mystery that involves stolen money, gritty casinos, and a beautiful girl with connections to his past.When a nice young woman named Trish Klein blows into Louisiana, passing hundred-dollar bills in local... Read more
Pegasus Descending
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Pegasus Descending
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 12 hours 0 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2006
  • Language: English
  • (5725 ratings)
(5725 ratings)
Dave Robicheaux is back in a dangerous mystery that involves stolen money, gritty casinos, and a beautiful girl with connections to his past.When a nice young woman named Trish Klein blows into Louisiana, passing hundred-dollar bills in local... Read more
Purple Cane Road
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Purple Cane Road
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 5 hours 18 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2000
  • Language: English
  • (6003 ratings)
(6003 ratings)
Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass on to the son. But what was his mother’s legacy? Dead to him since his youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of... Read more
Purple Cane Road
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Purple Cane Road
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Nick Sullivan
  • Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (6003 ratings)
(6003 ratings)
Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass on to the son. But what was his mother’s legacy? Dead to him since his youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of... Read more
Rain Gods
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Rain Gods
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
  • (4234 ratings)
(4234 ratings)
“America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post) brings back one of his most fascinating characters—Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland, cousin to lawman Billy Bob Holland—in this heart-pounding bestseller.In a heat-cracked... Read more
Rain Gods
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Rain Gods
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 15 hours 46 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
  • (4234 ratings)
(4234 ratings)
“America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post) brings back one of his most fascinating characters—Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland, cousin to lawman Billy Bob Holland—in this heart-pounding bestseller.In a heat-cracked... Read more
Robicheaux
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Robicheaux
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 13 hours 57 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2018
  • Language: English
  • (20322 ratings)
(20322 ratings)
James Lee Burke’s most beloved character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this New York Times bestselling mystery set in the towns and backwoods of Louisiana: an “enthralling yet grim novel that…will captivate, start to finish”... Read more
Sunset Limited
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Sunset Limited
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Mark Hammer
  • Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (4587 ratings)
(4587 ratings)
Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to center stage in an incendiary new novel by James Lee Burke. A gripping tale of racial violence, class warfare, and the sometimes cruel legacy of Southern history, Sunset Limited is a stunning achievement,... Read more
Sunset Limited
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Sunset Limited
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 1998
  • Language: English
  • (4587 ratings)
(4587 ratings)
Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to center stage in an incendiary new novel by James Lee Burke. A gripping tale of racial violence, class warfare, and the sometimes cruel legacy of Southern history, Sunset Limited is a stunning achievement,... Read more
Swan Peak
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Swan Peak
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (6684 ratings)
(6684 ratings)
2009 Audie Award Finalist for MysteryBeloved Louisiana lawman Dave Robicheaux returns—this time, traveling from New Iberia Parish to the wilds of Montana.Dave Robicheaux, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcell have retreated to an old... Read more
Swan Peak
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Swan Peak
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 13 hours 58 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (6684 ratings)
(6684 ratings)
2009 Audie Award Finalist for MysteryBeloved Louisiana lawman Dave Robicheaux returns—this time, traveling from New Iberia Parish to the wilds of Montana.Dave Robicheaux, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcell have retreated to an old... Read more
Texas City, 1947
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Texas City, 1947
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Ron McLarty
  • Length: 54 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (36 ratings)
(36 ratings)
A short story from one of the country‚Äôs most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke’s story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.
The Burning of the Flag
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The Burning of the Flag
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Ron McLarty
  • Length: 34 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (46 ratings)
(46 ratings)
A short story from one of the country‚Äôs most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke’s story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.
The Convict and Other Stories
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The Convict and Other Stories
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Steven Boyer
  • Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (457 ratings)
(457 ratings)
One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of a dozen short stories set in James Lee Burke’s most beloved milieu, the Deep South.“America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), two-time... Read more
The Glass Rainbow
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The Glass Rainbow
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 15 hours 8 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2010
  • Language: English
  • (8975 ratings)
(8975 ratings)
From New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke, Detective Dave Robicheaux becomes entangled in a mystery that connects a series of grisly murders with an ex-convict turned bestselling author, a notorious local pimp, and the man currently... Read more
The Glass Rainbow
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The Glass Rainbow
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2010
  • Language: English
  • (8975 ratings)
(8975 ratings)
From New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke, Detective Dave Robicheaux becomes entangled in a mystery that connects a series of grisly murders with an ex-convict turned bestselling author, a notorious local pimp, and the man currently... Read more
The Jealous Kind
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The Jealous Kind
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (3320 ratings)
(3320 ratings)
New York Times bestselling author and “the reigning champ of nostalgia noir” (The New York Times Book Review) James Lee Burke returns with a powerful novel in the Holland Family series set in 1950s Texas, as the specter of the Korean War... Read more
The Lost Get-Back Boogie
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The Lost Get-Back Boogie
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: James Lee Burke
  • Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: December 04, 2009
  • Language: English
  • (2080 ratings)
(2080 ratings)
Called “America’s best novelist” by the Denver Post, James Lee Burke is well known for his award-winning Dave Robicheaux series. In this enthralling departure, Burke weaves the tale of Iry Paret. Released from prison after two... Read more
The Molester
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The Molester
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Ron McLarty
  • Length: 33 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (9 ratings)
(9 ratings)
A short story from one of the country‚Äôs most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke’s story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.
The Neon Rain
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The Neon Rain
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: James Lee Burke
  • Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: May 29, 2009
  • Language: English
  • (20322 ratings)
(20322 ratings)
New York Times best-selling author James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux novels began with this first hard-hitting entry in the series. In The Neon Rain, Detective Robicheaux fishes a prostitute’s corpse from a New Orleans bayou and finds... Read more
The New Iberia Blues
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The New Iberia Blues
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 15 hours 3 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (3925 ratings)
(3925 ratings)
A 2020 Audie Award FinalistNamed one of the best crime novels of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review. The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of... Read more
The Night Johnny Ace Died
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The Night Johnny Ace Died
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Ron McLarty
  • Length: 46 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (14 ratings)
(14 ratings)
A short story from one of the country‚Äôs most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke’s story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.
The Tin Roof Blowdown
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The Tin Roof Blowdown
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 13 hours 4 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (12471 ratings)
(12471 ratings)
Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for MysteryDave Robicheaux returns in an adventure as timely as real life: the fight against crime, and the fight for life in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.In the waning days of summer 2005, a storm... Read more
The Tin Roof Blowdown
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The Tin Roof Blowdown
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (12471 ratings)
(12471 ratings)
Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for MysteryDave Robicheaux returns in an adventure as timely as real life: the fight against crime, and the fight for life in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.In the waning days of summer 2005, a storm... Read more
The Village
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The Village
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Ron McLarty
  • Length: 6 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (14 ratings)
(14 ratings)
A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke’s story collection, Jesus Out to Sea.
To the Bright and Shining Sun
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To the Bright and Shining Sun
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Tom Stechschulte
  • Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2013
  • Language: English
  • (660 ratings)
(660 ratings)
This early novel from bestselling author James Lee Burke is a gritty coming-of-age story about a young Kentucky miner growing up in the Appalachian mountains who’s torn between his family life and the lure of the city.James Lee Burke, a writer... Read more
Two for Texas
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Two for Texas
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2013
  • Language: English
  • (911 ratings)
(911 ratings)
This James Lee Burke classic features Son Holland, the great-grandfather of beloved hero Billy Bob Holland, as he flees a Louisiana prison camp with a Native American woman and a fellow prisoner in tow.James Lee Burke steps back three generations to... Read more
Water People
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Water People
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Ron McLarty
  • Length: 25 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (16 ratings)
(16 ratings)
A short story from one of the country‚Äôs most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke’s story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.
Wayfaring Stranger
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Wayfaring Stranger
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 13 hours 6 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2014
  • Language: English
  • (4531 ratings)
(4531 ratings)
2015 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/SuspenseIn his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man’s unforgettable life.In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens... Read more
Wayfaring Stranger
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Wayfaring Stranger
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2014
  • Language: English
  • (4531 ratings)
(4531 ratings)
2015 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/SuspenseIn his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man’s unforgettable life.In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens... Read more
White Doves at Morning
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White Doves at Morning
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Ed Sala
  • Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (1996 ratings)
(1996 ratings)
A riveting evocation of the Civil War, drawn from the true family history of “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), JAMES LEE BURKE 1861. Two young Southerners, friends despite their differing political views and... Read more
White Doves at Morning
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White Doves at Morning
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Will Patton
  • Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2002
  • Language: English
  • (1996 ratings)
(1996 ratings)
A riveting evocation of the Civil War, drawn from the true family history of “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), JAMES LEE BURKE 1861. Two young Southerners, friends despite their differing political views and... Read more
Why Bugsy Siegel Was a Friend of Mine
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Why Bugsy Siegel Was a Friend of Mine
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Ron McLarty
  • Length: 33 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (15 ratings)
(15 ratings)
A short story from one of the country‚Äôs most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke’s story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA.
Winter Light
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Winter Light
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Ron McLarty
  • Length: 39 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (20 ratings)
(20 ratings)
In the isolated hills of Montana, an aging college professor clashes with trespassing hunters and reckons with his mortality. The basis for the feature film God’s Country starring Thandiwe Newton and directed by Julian Higgins.A short story... Read more

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