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Published Jul 2005
336 pages
Genre: Thrillers
Publication Information
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
haunting memories of the past. 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 forget.
"Surprise lurking in the crevices of a recurring pattern: that's nature at its most beautiful, and Burke at his most eloquent." -
Booklist.
Starred Review. "Burke masterfully combines landscape and memory in a violent,
complex story peopled by sharply defined characters who inhabit a
lush, sensual, almost mythological world." - PW
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James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, 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.
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