Jolie Blon's Bounce (Hardcover)

Bestselling author James Lee Burke's most popular character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this suspenseful and enthralling story of two brutal murders in New Iberia, Louisiana.

When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, the victim of a particularly savage crime, New Iberia police detective Dave Robicheaux immediately senses that the most likely suspect, Tee Bobby Hulin, is not the real murderer. Though a drug addict and general ne'er-do-well, Hulin just doesn't fit the profile for this kind of crime. But when another murder occurs -- this victim a drugged-out prostitute who happens to be the daughter of the local Mafia bigwig -- the clues again point to Hulin. And this time the victim's father is prepared to mete out his own justice.

Before Dave Robicheaux can solve these crimes, he must battle his own inner demons, including a painkiller addiction brought on by a vicious beating at the hands of the mysterious and diabolical Legion Guidrey. On the good guy side of the balance sheet, there's Clete Purcel, Dave's long-time buddy. Clete comes to New Iberia for a visit, and is quickly drawn into the struggle between the various forces of evil in the town, including Jimmy Dean Styles, a man intent on maintaining his empire of corruption; Joe Zeroski, a trailer-park Mafioso; and of course the malevolent Legion Guidrey.

Gothic, dense, brutal, touching, and always compelling, Jolie Blon's Bounce is classic storytelling from a writer dubbed "the Faulkner of crime fiction."