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  • Another almost gothic detective novel by James Lee Burke

  • I picked this up in an airport shop. It seemed particularly fitting reading for a trip to New Orleans. The protagonist, Dave Robicheaux and his unique friends continue to grow on me with each additional novel in this series.

    

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For detective Dave Robicheaux, memories -- including those of a strange and violent summer from his youth -- are best left alone. But a dying man's confession forces Robicheaux to resurrect a decades-old mystery with a missing woman at its heart. Her name may or may not have been Ida Durbin, and Robicheaux's half brother, Jimmie, paid a brutal price for entering her world. Now the truth will plunge Robicheaux into the manipulations of New Orleans' wealthiest family, into a complex love affair of his own, and into hot pursuit of a killer expanding his territory beyond the Big Easy at a frightening pace.