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Dave Robicheaux (pronounced "ROW-bih-show") is a fictional character in a series of mystery novels by American crime writer James Lee Burke. He first appeared in The Neon Rain (1987). Biography
James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936) is an American author, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won Edgar Awards for his novels Black Cherry Blues (1990), Cimarron Rose (1998), and Flags on the Bayou (2024). [1] He has also been presented with the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
The narrative takes Robicheaux back into his own past, reconnecting him with Desmond Cormier, a figure he knew from Cormier's ambitious early days in New Orleans. As the story unfolds, the detective, aided by his friends Clete Purcel and his daughter Alafair, navigates a dangerous path that not only exposes external threats but also forces him ...
While fishing on a back country bayou, New Orleans Police Department officer Dave Robicheaux finds a body. Robicheaux, once a U.S. Army infantry lieutenant who fought in the Vietnam War, [1] becomes involved with drug dealers, mafia chieftains, and a former army general with shady arms dealings in Central America.
It is based on a Dave Robicheaux homonymous novel by James Lee Burke. Harley Peyton and Scott Frank wrote the screenplay. The film was followed by In the Electric Mist (2009), starring Tommy Lee Jones as Dave Robicheaux. In the sequel, Robicheaux still lives in Louisiana and has come out of retirement as an Iberia Parish sheriff's detective.
A Private Cathedral is a novel by American author James Lee Burke, published in 2020.It is part of the Dave Robicheaux series, featuring the character in a complex narrative that blends crime with elements of the supernatural.
In the Electric Mist (French title: Dans la brume électrique) is a 2009 French/American mystery drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier, and written by Jerzy Kromolowski and Mary Olson-Kromolowski based on the novel In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke; it stars Tommy Lee Jones in the lead role of Louisiana police detective Dave Robicheaux.
The fictional work follows Dave Robicheaux, a retired police officer and army lieutenant, who finds himself in a situation where he must protect his wife and a plane-crash survivor from a local drug kingpin. Heaven's Prisoners is the second novel by James Lee Burke featuring Dave Robicheaux, and was adapted into a film in 1996.