The Glass Rainbow (Dave Robicheaux) - Hardcover

Burke, James Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1439128294 ISBN 13: 9781439128299

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2010

Synopsis

James Lee Burke’s eagerly awaited new novel finds Detective Dave Robicheaux back in New Iberia, Louisiana, and embroiled in the most harrowing and dangerous case of his career. Seven young women in neighboring Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. While 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 hapless and marginalized victim psychopaths usually prey upon. 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 after a fierce beating by Purcel, in front of numerous witnesses, the case takes a nasty turn, and Clete’s career and life are hanging by threads over the abyss.

Adding to Robicheaux’s troubles is the matter of his daughter, Alafair, on leave from Stanford Law to put the finishing touches on her novel. Her literary pursuit has led her into the arms of Kermit Abelard, celebrated novelist and scion of a once prominent Louisiana family whose fortunes are slowly sinking into the corruption of Louisiana’s subculture. Abelard’s association with bestselling ex-convict author Robert Weingart, a man who uses and discards people like Kleenex, causes Robicheaux to fear that Alafair might be destroyed by the man she loves. As his daughter seems to drift away from him, he wonders if he has become a victim of his own paranoia. But as usual, Robicheaux’s instincts are proven correct and he finds himself dealing with a level of evil that is greater than any enemy he has confronted in the past.

Set against the backdrop of an Edenic paradise threatened by pernicious forces, James Lee Burke’s The Glass Rainbow is already being hailed as perhaps the best novel in the Robicheaux series.

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Review:

One of the best thriller writers. --Independent

The Glass Rainbow is tense, atmospheric and emotionally engaging. --Time Out

James Lee Burke continues to astonish... I cannot think of another writer of crime fiction who has sustained such a level of excellence over so many novels. --The Times

Book Description:

Dave Robicheaux is on the trail of a serial killer, while trying to protect his daughter from a boyfriend with a dark side, in a riveting instalment of James Lee Burke's classic series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1439128294
• ISBN 13: 9781439128299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 433