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    Burning Angel
    Burning Angel
    Burning Angel
    Audiobook (abridged)3 hours

    Burning Angel

    Written by James Lee Burke

    Narrated by Will Patton

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    From the New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes another brilliant Dave Robicheaux novel—now available in ebook—featuring the Louisiana detective in a race to solve a murder before more blood is shed.

    The Fontenot family has lived as sharecroppers on Bertrand land for as long as anyone can remember. So why are they now being forced from their homes? And what does the murder of Della Landry—the girlfriend of New Orleans fixer Sonny Boy Marsallus—have to do with it?

    Marsallus’s secrets seem tied to those of the Fontenots. But can Detective Dave Robicheaux make sense of it all before more bodies drop? In James Lee Burke’s intense and powerful crime novel, Robicheaux digs deep into the bad blood and dirty secrets of Louisiana’s past—while confronting a ragtag alliance of local mobsters and a hired assassin.

    In the suspenseful series that continues to be both a critical and popular success, Burning Angel will keep you glued to the pages until the ­­­breathtaking finale.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 1995
    ISBN9780743567916
    Author

    James Lee Burke

    James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

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    • 4/5
      The Fontenot family has lived as sharecroppers on Bertrand land for as long as anyone in New Iberia, Louisiana, can remember. So why are they now being forced from their homes? And what does the murder of Della Landry--the girlfriend of New Orleans fixer Sonny Boy Marsallus--have to do with it?Marsallus's secrets seem tied to those of the Fontenots. But can Detective Dave Robicheaux make sense of it all before there is more bloodshed? In James Lee Burke's intense and powerful new bestseller, Robicheux digs deep into the bad blood and dirty secrets of Louisiana's past--while having to confront a rag-tag alliance of local mobsters and hired assassin.
    • 3/5
      It might be just me, but this one seemed to have a lot of moving parts, and I'm not sure Burke was able to successfully keep them all in the air.

      One element I do need to point out that I'm getting a touch tired with is...is Robicheaux a cop, or is he not a cop? He's been in and out of the job an awful lot over the course of the eight books I've read so far.

    • 2/5
      Just didn't do it for me. I found his writing to be disjointed, unfocused and hard to follow. I didn't give a damn about any of the characters. I just couldn't get into it.
    • 4/5
      When Sonny Boy Marsallus resurfaces in New Orleans, Detective Dave Robicheaux of the Iberia Parish sheriff's office couldn't be more surprised-that is, not until Sonny passes him a mysterious notebook for safekeeping that seems to contain dark secrets about his activities in Latin America. Robicheaux must wrestle with secrets closer to home as well when his help is enlisted by the Fontenot family, descendants of sharecroppers, whose claim to land they've lived on for almost one hundred years is jeopardized. and what of the longtime, clandestine affair between Moleen Bertrand, lord of the mannor, and Ruthie Jean Fontenot, now reputed to be a local madam. As Dave determines to find out who's honing in on the Bertrand spread, he puts himself in increasing peril at the hands of local mobsters and a hired assassin with a shady past that intersects with that of Sonny Boy.
    • 5/5
      The theme can be stated without spoiling the book. i.e.,, WE MUST BE CAREFUL HOW E TREAT PEOPLE, FOR THERE MAY BE ANGELS AMONG US. Burke is wonderful at characterization and hooking us into his world with awesome paintings (that are not always beautiful). Here paints a question mark around Sonny Boy. Look for this in other novels as well. It is part of his signature.
    • 5/5
      Beautifully written. And the subject matter is fearsome: Dave Robicheaux's way of treating with his world here clashes, even in dream, with a whole lot of forces, mores, and assumptions that pervade the world he lives in. 'Even inside the dream I know I'm experiencing what a psychologist once told me is a world destruction fantasy. But my knowledge that it is only a dream does no good; I cannot extricate myself from it.' He lives in a beautiful and deadly world, in which the great chain of being operates on the principle of 'eat or be eaten'. But in the waking world at least Dave has to find a way to go on living in it. So he begins to make his choices, essays small interventions. He quickly finds himself in more than one another country, where nothing is as it seems and he must risk everything he loves to right imbalances, until his whole world makes sense to him again. And meanwhile, everything he is and loves remains at risk. At every turn he must decide what to let go of, what he needs to keep. 'It was all that quick, as though a loud train had gone past me, slamming across switches, baking the track with its own heat, creating a tunnel of sound and energy so intense that the rails seem to reshape like bronze licorice under the wheels; then silence that's like hands clapped across the eardrums, a field of weeds that smell of dust and creosote, a lighted club car disappearing across the prairie.' A little masterpiece, this one, and maybe the only pure magic realism novel in the whole series too..
    • 4/5
      One of the best Dave Robicheaux novels I've read. Quick paced and full of the descriptive power that gives these novels such a sense of place. Though I figured the assassin with a third of the book to go the way the final scene was played out was the mystery that kept me reading. Along with all the odd violent southern characters that populate his novels as well.