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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,590
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Celebrated crime master and two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke returns with a gorgeously crafted, brutally resonant chronicle of violence along the Texas-Mexico border. Sheriff Hackberry Holland patrols a small Southwest Texas border town, meting out punishment and delivering justice in his small square of this magnificent but lawless land. When an alcoholic ex-boxer named Danny Boy Lorca begs to be locked up after witnessing a man tortured to death by a group of bandits, Hack and his deputy, Pam Tibbs, slowly extract the Indian man’s gruesome tale.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding story with remarkable delivery.
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The Glass Rainbow
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,262
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,808
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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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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God help me if I outlive James Lee Burke
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 15,917
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2 out of 5 stars
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Grisham wrote this?
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Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant DC law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, in an instant, it all comes undone. A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm's plush offices. When it is all over, the man's blood is splattered on Michael's face - and suddenly Michael is willing to do the unthinkable. Rediscovering a conscience he lost long ago, Michael is leaving the big time for the streets where his attacker once lived.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Life Changing Moment
- By R. Pontiflet on 03-14-14
By: John Grisham
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Wayfaring Stranger
- By: James Lee Burke
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,189
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,898
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,891
It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when 16-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends as Weldon puts a bullet through the rear window of Clyde’s stolen automobile. Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland and his sergeant, Hershel Pine, escape certain death in the Battle of the Bulge and encounter a beautiful young woman named Rosita Lowenstein hiding in a deserted extermination camp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding Addition to the Holland/Texas Saga
- By Chip Atkinson on 07-22-14
By: James Lee Burke
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Heartwood
- A Billy Bob Holland Novel, Book 2
- By: James Lee Burke
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 205
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 183
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Story4 out of 5 stars 180
Heartwood is a kind of tree that grows in layers. And as Billy Bob's grandfather once told him, you do well in life by keeping the roots in a clear stream and not letting anyone taint the water for you. But in Holland's dusty little hometown of Deaf Smith, in the hill country north of Austin, local kingpin Earl Deitrich has made a fortune running roughshod and tainting anyone who stands in his way. Billy Bob has problems with Deitrich and his shamelessly callous demeanor, but can't shake the legacy of his passion for Deitrich's "heartbreak-beautiful" wife, Peggy Jean.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not JLB's best, narrator needs coaching
- By Ed on 06-25-13
By: James Lee Burke
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The Neon Rain
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- By: James Lee Burke
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,892
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,446
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,431
New York Times best-selling author James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels began with this first hard-hitting entry in the series. In The Neon Rain, Detective Robicheaux fishes a prostitute's corpse from a New Orleans bayou and finds that no one, not even the law, cares about a dead hooker.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The perfect combination of author and narrator
- By S. Sand on 09-23-09
By: James Lee Burke
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Cimarron Rose
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- By: James Lee Burke
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 406
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 353
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Story4 out of 5 stars 348
Texas attorney and former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland has many secrets. Among them is Vernon Smother's son, Lucas, a now-teenaged boy about whom few know the truth - Lucas is really Billy Bob's illegitimate son. When Lucas is arrested for murder, Billy Bob must confront the past and serve as the boy's criminal attorney. Billy Bob knows the propensity of the town, Deaf Smith, Texas, to make scapegoats out of the innocent and to exploit and sexually use the powerless.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Burke delivers withanother great mystery/hero!
- By Chip Atkinson on 08-10-12
By: James Lee Burke
Publisher's Summary
The collection no crime fiction fan should be without – the essential short stories of James Lee Burke
"America's best novelist" (The Denver Post), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals of the Deep South – the people, the crime, the hope and despair infused in the bayou landscape. This stunning anthology takes us back to where Burke's heart and soul beat -- the steamy, seamy Gulf Coast -- in complex and fascinating tales that crackle with violence and menace, meshing his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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- cindylovesbill
- 04-07-18
liked this
well read and masterfully written.i enjoy James Lee Burke's style of writing. I enjoy his books.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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Story1 out of 5 stars
- Dundas I. Flaherty
- 10-01-12
Didn't finish
Found this to be earlier work, not readable compared with Burke's mature work.Stopped reading after trying three stories and switched to Going After Cacciato, which is terrific. Liked a couple of Burke's more recent works, but can't read them too closely together or I fine a sameness in them.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story1 out of 5 stars
- Sue
- 09-18-12
Boring
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
No sense of a real story, just a collections of thoughts, to make this a 4 or 5 star it would need to be rewritten.
Has The Convict and Other Stories turned you off from other books in this genre?
I love James Burke but this was really bad. I will still buy his books but not if they are not part of a series.
Did the narration match the pace of the story?
The narration was fine, not great, but not bad.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
Not that I could fine, I tried listening to most of the stories but found it hard to get through any of them. I kept hoping the next story would be better but did not find this to be the case.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story1 out of 5 stars
- Toni R.
- 09-15-12
Haven't read a a Jee Burke I didn't like
reconized a few things shortly used in other books, but this man can tell a story and take me to New Orleans just by opening his book. Where ever he describes that is where I am at. Can't waiit for next book.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-02-12
I like the full novels better.
What did you like best about The Convict and Other Stories? What did you like least?
I like the full JLB novels better. The short stories were harder to follow. My bookmark was not working well on this audio and kept jumping around.
EXCEPTION: the story "Hack" made me cry. My 94 year old dad recently passed.