Purple cane road: a novel
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 11.
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Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass on to the son. But what was his mother's legacy? Dead to him since his youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Robicheaux's mind. He's lived with the fact that he would never really know what happened to the woman who left him to the devices of a whiskey-driven father. But deep down, Dave still feels the loss of his mother and knows that the infinite series of disappointments in her life could not have come to a good end.While helping out an old friend, Dave is stunned when a pimp looks at him sideways and asks if he is the son of Mae Guillory, the whore a bunch of cops murdered thirty years ago. Her body was dumped in the bayou bordering Purple Cane Road, and the cops who left her there are still on the job.Dave's search for his mother's killers leads him to the darker places in his past, and solving this case teaches him what it means to be his mother's son.
Subjects
Subjects
Death
Detective and mystery stories
Fiction
Mothers
Mothers -- Death -- Fiction
Mothers -- Death -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction
Mystery
New Iberia (La.) -- Fiction
Private investigators
Private investigators -- Louisiana -- New Iberia -- Fiction
Psychological aspects
Robicheaux, Dave (Fictitious character)
Suspense
Thriller
Detective and mystery stories
Fiction
Mothers
Mothers -- Death -- Fiction
Mothers -- Death -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction
Mystery
New Iberia (La.) -- Fiction
Private investigators
Private investigators -- Louisiana -- New Iberia -- Fiction
Psychological aspects
Robicheaux, Dave (Fictitious character)
Suspense
Thriller
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9780385488440
9780307807465
9780743548281
9780307807465
9780743548281
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display_description | Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass onto the son. But what has his mother's legacy left him? Dead to him since youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Dave's mind. He's lived with the fact that he would never really know what happened to the woman who left him to the devices of his whiskey-driven father. But deep down, he still feels the loss of his mother and knows the infinite series of disappointments in her life could not have come to a good end. While helping out an old friend, Dave is stunned when a pimp looks at him sideways and asks him if he is Mae Guillory's boy, the whore a bunch of cops murdered 30 years ago. The pimp goes on to insinuate that the cops who dumped her body in the bayou were on the take and continue to thrive in the New Orleans area. Dave's search for his mother's killers leads him to the darker places in his past and solving this case teaches him what it means to be his mother's son. Purple Cane Road has the dimensions of a classic-passion, murder, and nearly heartbreaking poignancy-wrapped in a wonderfully executed plot that surprises from start to finish. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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series | Dave Robicheaux novels | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
series_with_volume | Dave Robicheaux novels|11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
subject_facet | Detective and mystery stories Mothers -- Death -- Fiction Mothers -- Death -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction New Iberia (La.) -- Fiction Private investigators -- Louisiana -- New Iberia -- Fiction Robicheaux, Dave (Fictitious character) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Purple cane road : a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Purple Cane Road Purple cane road : a novel / by James Lee Burke Purple cane road [electronic resource] / James Lee Burke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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title_sub | a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Death Detective and mystery stories Fiction Mothers Mystery Private investigators Psychological aspects Robicheaux, Dave (Fictitious character) Suspense Thriller |