The Neon Rain
Dave Robicheaux: Book #1
- By: James Lee Burke
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
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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 that no one, not even the law, cares about a dead hooker. "One of Burke's best."-New York Times Book Review
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Dave Robicheaux Series
The Neon Rain
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
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 that no one, not even the law, cares about a dead hooker. "One of Burke's best."-New York Times Book Review Read more »
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Black Cherry Blues
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Mark Hammer
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
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. Read more »
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A Morning for Flamingos
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Mark Hammer
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
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 forget. It had started out as an ordinary prisoner transfer, then turned into a blood bath when the... Read more »
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Purple Cane Road
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Homicide investigator Dave Robicheaux is trying to help Letty Labinche, a New Liberia girl who is on death row for killing the man who molested her children. Through his investigations he happens upon Zipper Clum, a pimp who recognises Robicheaux through a 30-year haze. As his memories chrystalise, he chooses to reveal some shocking revelations... Read more »
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Jolie Blon's Bounce
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Mark Hammer
Length: 14 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
When Amanda Boudreau is raped and murdered, it's small-time black hustler Tee Bobby Hulins prints that are found at the crime scene. Tee Bobby pleads innocence, but then attempts suicide in his holding cell. Why? Lawyer Perry LaSalles takes on the defence, but his motives are fuelled with guilt. James Lee Burke is one of America's best-selling... Read more »
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Last Car to Elysian Fields
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Mark Hammer
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
It is a rainy late-summer's night in New Orleans. Detective Dave Robicheaux is about to confront the man who may have savagely assaulted his friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, a Catholic priest who's always at the centre of controversy. But things are never as they seem and soon Robicheaux is back in New Iberia, probing a car crash that killed three... Read more »
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Crusader's Cross
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
For Dave Robicheaux, life in Louisiana is filled with haunting memories of the past - images from Vietnam, the violent streets of New Orleans, and his own troubled youth. In Crusader's Cross, a deathbed confession from an old schoolmate resurrects a story of injustice, the murder of a young woman, and a time in Robicheaux's life he has tried to... Read more »
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Pegasus Descending
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Dave Robicheaux left his drinking days behind him many years ago, but he still feels guilt over a tragic event he wasn't sober enough to prevent. Dallas Klein, a gambling addict and bar buddy of Dave's when Dave was posted to Miami PD, was killed in an armed robbery he'd been forced to engineer. Two decades later, several incidents in Dave's... Read more »
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The Tin Roof Blowdown
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The Tin Roof Blowdown begins with the shooting of two would-be looters in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and then follows a motley group of characters - from street thugs to a big-time mob boss, from a junkie priest to a sadistic psychopath. As their stories converge on a cache of stolen diamonds, the storm turns the Big Easy into a... Read more »
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Swan Peak
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Dave Robicheaux and his ex-partner head to Montana for a break. But they are soon dragged in to an investigation into the deaths of a couple of hikers, which suggests that a serial killer may be at work, while an escaped jailbird and his former tormentor are locked in a battle that is connected to a terrible family secret. Read more »
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The Glass Rainbow
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 15 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
When Dave Robicheaux gets the call saying his ex-partner Clete Purcel is in jail for felony assault and resisting arrest, bailing him out is instinctive. After all, Clete is the man who saved Dave's life. But Clete's latest escapade isn't just worrying because it shows his demons are gaining the upper hand; it also brings some of those demons... Read more »
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A Private Cathedral
By: James Lee Burke
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
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 Balangie families are longtime enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld and show each other no mercy.... Read more »
The New Iberia Blues
By: James Lee Burke
Length: 15 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A 2020 Audie Award Finalist
Named 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 Louisiana in this New York Times bestselling mystery from “modern master” (Publishers Weekly) James Lee... Read more »