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1) Swan Peak
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Detective Robicheaux, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcell are at an old friend's ranch in Montana, enjoying their distance from the harsh, gritty landscape of Louisiana post-Katrina. But the serenity is shattered when two college students are found brutally murdered in the hills behind the ranch. They find themselves involved in a twisted and dangerous mystery. At the center of the storm is Clete, who cannot shake the feeling that he is being haunted...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 12
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"When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, the victim of a particularly savage rape, New Iberia, Louisiana, police detective Dave Robicheaux senses from the very start of the investigation that the most likely suspect, Tee Bobby Hulin, is not the actual killer. Though a drug addict and general ne'er-do-well, Hulin just doesn't fit the profile for this kind of brutal crime." "But when another murder occurs -- this victim a drugged-out prostitute who...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 7
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Somewhere off the coast of Louisiana, an old Nazi submarine lies buried in the sands, hidden by thick seaweed and salty waters. Dave Robicheaux is the only person who has ever discovered it, and now Hippo Bimstine, New Orleans' largest mover and shaker, wants him to find it again.
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 11
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Robicheaux first hears it from a pimp eager to trade information for his life: Mae Guillory was murdered outside a New Orleans nightclub by two cops. Dave Robicheaux was just a boy when his mother ran out on him and his whiskey-driven father. Now Robicheaux is a man, still haunted by her desertion and her death. More than thirty-five years after Mae Guillory died, her son will go to any length to bring her killers to justice. And as he moves closer...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 18
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Seven young women in Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. Whille the crimes have all the telltale signs of a serial killer, the death of Bernadette Latiolais, a high school honor student, doesn;t fit: she is not the kind of marginalized victim psychopaths usually prey upon. Dave Robicheaux and his best friend, Clete Purcel, confront Herman Stanga, a notorious pimp and crack dealer whom both men despise. When Stanga turns up dead shortly...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 2
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The first of the Robicheaux series. In this story, Dave rescues a girl named Alafair from a plane crash and is dragged into a world of murder and deception
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 6
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Dave Robicheaux is dried out, back on the force and remarried. When the ghost of a long-dead Confederate general begins to haunt his latest murder case, Dave's new found peace is threatened with mayhem and madness.
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 9
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[1996]
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A Louisiana farmer is jailed for the murder, 30 years earlier of a black civil rights leader. The farmer claims he is innocent and asks Dave Robicheaux to help him prove it. Not easy, as it suits a lot of people to have the case closed
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 5
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A bullet through a windowpane brings Robicheaux back in contact with the Sonnier family, childhood friends whose morality is scarred by a history of abuse. Welton, once a pilot for the CIA-backed Air America; Lyle, a television evangelist; and Drew, a girl-woman with a bitter past, form an extraordinarily close-knit family whose guarded secrets make it impossible for Robicheaux to protect them.
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 4
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c1990
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Dave Robicheaux tracks the convict who escaped after shooting him.
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"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 gripping mystery. Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood...
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