Black Cherry Blues

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 26 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Mark Hammer

Dave Robicheaux had begun to put the pieces of his broken life together again when an old friend turned up on his doorstep, dredging up old memories and new threats.

A Morning for Flamingoes: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 10 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Mark Hammer

Dave Robicheaux felt the bone-grinding pain rip through his body as the .45 did its damage. Through the agonizing haze that enveloped him, he heard an almost inhuman laugh - the hideous, victorious cackling of Jimmie Lee Boggs - a sound he would never forget. It had started out as an ordinary prisoner transfer, then turned into a blood bath when the convicted murderer got hold of a gun.

A Stained White Radiance: A Dave Robicheaux Novel, Book 5

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 11 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Mark Hammer

Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux knows the Sonnier family of New Iberia - their connections to the CIA, the mob, and to a former Klansman now running for state office. And he knows their past - as dark and murky as a night on the Louisiana bayou. An assassination attempt and the death of a cop draw Robicheaux into the Sonniers' dangerous web of madness, murder and incest. But Robicheaux has devils of his own. And they've come out of hiding to destroy the tormented investigator - and the people he holds most dear.

In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead: A Dave Robicheaux Novel, Book 6

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 5 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Mark Hammer

The image of the dead girl's body lingered in detective Dave Robicheaux's mind as he drove home. After seeing the young victim's corpse, the last thing he needed to come across was a drunk driver. But when he saw the Cadillac fishtail across the road, Robicheaux knew the driver was in trouble. What Dave didn't realize, was that by pulling the car over, he was opening his murder case wider than he could imagine. The driver, Elrod Sykes, in New Iberia to star in a movie, leads Dave to the remains of a black man that had washed up in the Atchafalaya swamp.

Dixie City Jam: A Dave Roubicheaux Novel, Book 7

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 46 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Mark Hammer

They're out there, under the salt - the bodies of German seamen who used to lie in wait at the mouth of the Mississippi for unescorted American tankers sailing from the oil refineries of Baton Rouge out into the Gulf of Mexico. As a child, Dave Robicheaux had been haunted by the sailors' images. Years later, Robicheaux, a detective with the New Iberia sheriff's office, finds himself and his family at serious risk, stalked for his knowledge of a watery burial ground by a mysterious man named Will Buchalter - a man who believes that the Holocaust was one big hoax.

Burning Angel: A Dave Robicheaux Novel, Book 8

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 9 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Mark Hammer

Detective Dave Robicheaux becomes entangled in the affairs of the Fontenot family, descendants of sharecroppers whose matriarch helped raise Dave as a child. They are in danger of losing the land they've lived on for more than a century. As Dave tries to discover who wants the land so badly, he finds himself in increasing peril from a lethal, rag tag alliance of local mobsters and a hired assassin with a shady past.

Cadillac Jukebox: A Dave Robicheaux Novel, Book 9

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 3 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Mark Hammer

When former Klansman and piney-woods outcast Aaron Crown is finally imprisoned for a decades-old murder, it is to Detective Dave Robicheaux that he proclaims his innocence loudest. Crown seems to be a lightning rod for every kind of trouble that the state of Louisiana can unearth. A documentary film writer seeking to prove Crown's innocence is found murdered; a button man for the New Orleans mob accuses Robicheaux of taking a pay-off to ignore Crown.

But it is when Buford LaRose -- scion of an old Southern family and author of a book on the Crown case -- is elected governor that Dave Robicheaux's involvement with Aaron Crown deepens to a level he can barely fathom. And it is Buford's social-climbing wife, Karyn, with whom Robicheaux had an affair years before, who proves to be his most poisonous adversary.

Filled with thrilling adventure, lightning-paced action, and street smart realism, Cadillac Jukebox is a brilliant addition to Burke's standout Dave Robicheaux series.

Sunset Limited: A Dave Robicheaux Novel, Book 10

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 28 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Mark Hammer
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The 40-year-old crucifixion of a prominent labor leader named Jack Flynn remains an unsolved atrocity that has never been forgotten in New Iberia, Louisiana. When Flynn's daughter, Megan, returns to the site of her father's murder, it quickly becomes clear that her family's blood-stained past will not stay buried. Megan gives her old friend Dave Robicheaux a tip about a small-time criminal named Cool Breeze Broussard, scarcely suspecting that the seemingly innocuous case will lead Robicheaux and his partner into the midst of a deadly conspiracy.

Purple Cane Road: A Dave Robicheaux Novel, Book 11

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 27 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Nick Sullivan
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

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. 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 30 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.

Jolie Blon's Bounce

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 23 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Mark Hammer
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Return to James Lee Burke's "timeless, parallel universe" with detective Dave Robicheaux, as he investigates the murders of two women, tries to prove one man's innocence, and faces an enemy unlike any he has ever known. Gothic, dense, brutal, touching, and always compelling, Jolie Blon's Bounce is classic storytelling from a writer who has been dubbed "the Faulkner of crime fiction."

Last Car to Elysian Fields

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 11 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Mark Hammer
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

When Dave Robicheaux, learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan has been the victim of a particularly brutal assault, he returns to New Orleans to investigate, if only unofficially.

Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 44 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Will Patton
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Critically acclaimed and best-selling crime writer James Lee Burke returns to Louisiana where his ever-popular hero, Dave Robicheaux, sleuths his way through a hotbed of sin and uncertainty.

Pegasus Descending: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 56 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Will Patton

Dave's inability to let things alone gets him involved with two very powerful criminals, both wanting to protect their sons from the trouble they court, and both with the attitude of the privileged and white. When a young black drug dealer gets on the wrong side of the boys, tensions run high and there are more needless deaths - causing Dave to come to blows with the FBI, the DA's office and a thug who has little regard for any life but his own.

The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 2 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Will Patton

The Tin Roof Blowdown begins with the shooting of two would-be looters in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and then follows a motley group of characters - from street thugs to a big-time mob boss, from a junkie priest to a sadistic psychopath. As their stories converge on a cache of stolen diamonds, the storm turns the Big Easy into a lawless wasteland of apocalyptic proportions.

Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 51 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Will Patton

Dave Robicheaux and his ex-partner head to Montana for a break. But they are soon dragged in to an investigation into the deaths of a couple of hikers, which suggests that a serial killer may be at work, while an escaped jailbird and his former tormentor are locked in a battle that is connected to a terrible family secret.

The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 7 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Will Patton

Why we think it’s a great listen: When it comes to author/narrator pairings, nobody tops James Lee Burke and Will Patton in the Robicheaux thrillers. Beloved Burke hero Detective Dave Robicheaux here returns to New Iberia to solve a series of grisly murders. Seven young women in neighboring Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. While the crimes have all the telltale signs of a serial killer, the death of Bernadette Latiolais, a high-school honor student, doesn’t fit.

Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel, Book 19

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 11 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Will Patton
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Creole Belle begins where the last book in the Dave Robicheaux series, The Glass Rainbow, ended. Dave is in a recovery unit in New Orleans, where a Creole girl named Tee Jolie Melton visits him and leaves him an iPod with the country blues song “Creole Belle” on it. Then she disappears. Dave becomes obsessed with the song and the memory of Tee Jolie and goes in search of her sister, who later turns up inside a block of ice floating in the Gulf.

Light of the World: A Dave Robicheaux Novel, Book 20

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Will Patton

In Light of the World, sadist and serial killer Asa Surrette narrowly escaped the death penalty for the string of heinous murders he committed while capital punishment was outlawed in Kansas. But following a series of damning articles written by Dave Robicheaux’s daughter Alafair about possible other crimes committed by Surette, the killer escapes from a prison transport van and heads to Montana - where an unsuspecting Dave happens to have gone to take in the sweet summer air, accompanied by Alafair, his wife Molly, faithful partner Clete, and Clete’s newfound daughter, Gretchen Horowitz.