'Evil, bigotry and doing the right thing. All are done as expertly as ever by a master writer' DAILY TELEGRAPH
Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer Billy Bob Holland is convinced of Lucas's innocence but proving it means unearthing the truth from a seething mass of deceit and corruption. A corruption endemic in the way it can be only in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else's business.  
Billy Bob's relationship with Lucas's family is not an easy one - years back he was a close friend of Mrs Smothers, too close according to her husband Vernon. And when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighbouring cell in the local lock-up, the waters are muddied even further and Lucas himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death.
Praise for one of the great American crime writers, James Lee Burke:
'James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed.' Michael Connelly
'A gorgeous prose stylist.' Stephen King
'Richly deserves to be described now as one of the finest crime writers America has ever produced.' Daily Mail
Fans of Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly and Don Winslow will love James Lee Burke: 
Billy Bob Holland Series
1. Cimarron Rose 
2. Heartwood 
3. Bitterroot 
4. In The Moon of Red Ponies 
Dave Robicheaux Series
1. The Neon Rain 
2. Heaven's Prisoners 
3. Black Cherry Blues 
4. A Morning for Flamingos 
5. A Stained White Radiance 
6. In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead 
7. Dixie City Jam 
8. Burning Angel 
9. Cadillac Jukebox 
10. Sunset Limited 
11. Purple Cane Road 
12. Jolie Blon's Bounce 
13. Last Car to Elysian Fields 
14. Crusader's Cross 
15. Pegasus Descending 
16. The Tin Roof Blowdown 
17. Swan Peak 
18. The Glass Rainbow 
19. Creole Belle 
20. Light of the World 
21. Robicheaux 
Hackberry Holland Series
1. Lay Down My Sword and Shield 
2. Rain Gods 
3. Feast Day of Fools 
4. House of the Rising Sun
* Each James Lee Burke novel can be read as a standalone or in series order *



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