Purple Cane Road James Lee Burke. Bantam Books, $24.95 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-385-48844-0. HAfter the relatively lightweight Sunset Limited (1998), Cajun cop Dave Robicheaux returns in a powerhouse of ...

Author James Lee Burke, whose new novel is the best-selling "Purple Cane Road," hears a whistle and fears it might be coming from inside his head. Someone nearby verifies that the whistle is from ...

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Five years ago, crime novelist James Lee Burke was everybody's favorite Cinderella story. We learned how Burke started writing literary fiction as a young man, how his drinking soon got in the way ...

Purple Cane Road By James Lee Burke Doubleday, $24.95 James Lee Burke's prose captures so perfectly the oppressively humid atmosphere of southern Louisiana that after finishing some particularly ...

Forget those other 18 books James Lee Burke has written — books which have earned him Edgar Awards, a Gold Dagger and a Pulitzer nomination. “Purple Cane Road,” he says, ...

BEST-SELLING author James Lee Burke is a bit of an enigma in the mystery/thriller genre. He can write some of the most violent, twisted scenes imaginable on one page, and on the next wax eloquent ...

James Lee Burke knows where his success is rooted, and it's firmly planted in Dave Robicheaux. Burke, Missoula's most successful writer, puts his emotionally savaged Louisiana police detective ...

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