Jolie Blon's Bounce (Standard format, CD)

"One of the best writers of our time" (The Denver Post), James Lee Burke returns with his popular character, Dave Robicheaux, in a novel rich with atmosphere, ripe with menace, and filled with crackling dialogue. First a beautiful teenage girl is brutally murdered. Then a prostitute--who happens to be the daughter of a local mobster--is similarly slain. This time the victim's father is prepared to mete out his own justice. All clues point to a local Cajun singer, drug addict and ne'er-do-well Tee Bobby Hulin. But police detective David Robicheaux--last seen in Purple Cane Road--doesn't think this is an open-and-shut case. Robicheaux looks to the past for clues and uncovers a history of secrets and long-seated enmity that goes to the core of this Louisiana community, reaching back to the days of slavery. At the center of this dark episode, he finds Legion, a man defined by evil and seemingly possessed with almost supernatural skills of survival. When Robicheaux challenges him, the resulting defeat forces him to face the demons he buried long ago. Gothic, complex, intense, touching, and always compelling, Jolie Blon's Bounce is classic storytelling from a writer dubbed "the Faulkner of crime fiction."