• Last Car to Elysian Fields

  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrated by: Mark Hammer
  • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (859 ratings)

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Last Car to Elysian Fields

By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Mark Hammer
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Publisher's summary

For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him. To return there means visiting old ghosts and opening himself to new, yet familiar, dangers.

When Robicheaux, a police officer based in the somewhat quieter Louisiana town of New Iberia, 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.

Meanwhile, back in New Iberia, three local teenage girls are killed in a drunk driving accident. Robicheaux traces the source of the liquor to one of New Iberia's "daiquiri windows," places that sell mixed drinks through drive-by windows. When the owner of the drive-through operation is brutally murdered, Robicheaux immediately suspects the grief-crazed father of the dead teen driver. But his assumption is challenged when the murder weapon turns up belonging to someone else. Tying together these disparate threads is a maniacal killer named Max Coll, a deeply haunted hit man sent to New Orleans to finish the job of father Dolan.

©2003 James Lee Burke (P)2003 Simon & Schuster Inc. All Rights Reserved. AUDIOWORKS is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Critic reviews

"James Lee Burke is at the top of his game." (The New York Times)
"This is an outstanding entry in an excellent series" (Publishers Weekly)

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Arrgh...

I love anything by James Lee Burke. And I don't at all mind Mark Hammer's accent, or that fact that he reads slowly. He's a good reader as far as all that goes.

But what drives me absolutely crazy are all the "mouth clicking"sounds, swallowing, etc. that could have been avoided with better recording, or at least edited out!

The sounds are so irritating that I can't even finish listening to the book. What's so sad is that many of JLB's books with the wonderful recordings by Will Patton are abridged versions. Sigh.

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