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Original Title:	Purple Cane Road
ISBN:	0440224047 (ISBN13: 9780440224044)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Dave Robicheaux #11
Setting:	United States of America

Purple Cane Road (Dave Robicheaux #11)

James Lee Burke

Paperback | Pages: 387 pages

Rating: 4.15 | 6892 Users | 293 Reviews

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Title	:	Purple Cane Road (Dave Robicheaux #11)
Author	:	James Lee Burke
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 387 pages
Published	:	May 8th 2001 by Dell (first published August 1st 2000)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime

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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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In James Lee Burke's Purple Cane Road, the 11th installment in the Dave Robicheaux serial mystery series, this dark mystery will leave you chilled from start to finish. For Dave Robicheaux, all his life he wondered about what happened to his mother when she mysteriously died years ago. When a pimp had came to him and asked him if he was Mae Guillory's boy, he revealed a bombshell to Dave on what he knew about her strange death. And that had brought him back to the past when he revisited memories

If you want to spend a little time in another place, another world, few writers can take you there like James Lee Burke. But probably his greatest asset is his lyrical, poetic language. This book, set in southern Louisiana simply drips with atmosphere. It's dark, moody and complicated, like all JLB's books. The story that drives the narrative is perhaps good, rather than great. But what sets him apart from other crime writers is the humanity in his deeply flawed characters. There are no happy

I am a long time James Lee Burke fan, especially of the Dave Robicheaux series. That makes it hard for me to say that Purple Cane Road js not one of his best. To begin with, it was way too long. About halfway through I had lost interest in the plot and only wanted Robicheaux to get it over with. The main plot is his attempt to find and deal with the men who killed his mother long ago. He finds out they were cops and long before he knows for sure, the rest of us are patiently waiting for Dave to

Purple Cane RoadOh wow.........this is the best book ever. Out of all the books in the Dave Robicheaux series this is my favorite one yet. James Lee Burke is an absolute genius and the best writer that I have ever had the pleasure to read. Amazing!

You know Dave Robicheaux is having a bad day when Clete Purcell asks Dave "Tell me, Streak, if I quit the juice and start going to meetings, can I enjoy the kind of serenity you do?".Fans of Dave Robicheaux know that he is a complex character and that he has had his share of problems in life. His father died when he was young, his mother had abandoned him and his father, he is a Vietnam veteran who has bouts of PTSD, and he is a recovering alcoholic. In past novels we knew little about his

As I think about this book, the words "too much" come to mind. Too much plot. Too much description of people and places. Too much disconnect between the story and the emotions. And way too much gratuitous violence.Here's an example of an overdone description of minor characters ... >> In the shade his skin had the bloodless discoloration that an albinos might if he bathed in blue ink. He wore steel picks on the fingers of his right hand and the sawed-off, machine-buffed neck of a glass

Purple Cane road was written in 2000 and was then called James Burke's finest novel. I loved it It's a very good book certainly in his top three, wait I've only read four. This story begins with a look into the past at Dave before he began the twelve step program. New Iberia resident, Vachael Caramouche did the states work and was referred too as the electrician never as the executioner. In those days the chair traveled from temporary housing at Angola. Visiting parish prisons with the chair on