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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.
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
The New Iberia Blues is a crime and mystery novel by American author James Lee Burke. It is the twenty-second installment in the Dave Robicheaux series and is set in Louisiana. [1] [2] It was named one of the best crime novels of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review. [3]
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.
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.
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.
Jack Reacher, by Lee Child; Detective Danny Reagan, Blue Bloods; Detective Inspector John Rebus, by Ian Rankin; Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds; Arkady Renko, of the Moscow Militsya, by Martin Cruz Smith; Dave Robicheaux, by James Lee Burke; Detective Inspector Jack Robinson, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries; Jim Rockford, The Rockford Files
Dave Robicheaux – created by James Lee Burke; Inspector Simon Serrailler – created by Susan Hill; Detective Inspector Luke Thanet – created by Dorothy Simpson; Thomson and Thompson – from The Adventures of Tintin, created by Hergé; Dick Tracy – created by Chester Gould; Inspector Wallander – created by Henning Mankell