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| SWAN PEAK
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July, 2008 (a Robicheaux novel)
Praise for James Lee Burke and SWAN PEAK:
Lyrical passages describing the Montana landscape contrast with the subtle but intense way Burke depicts the violence and perversity lurking in his characters' hearts. But despite all the nastiness, love and redemption retain the power to heal some very wounded souls in a surprising denouement.
--Publishers Weekly
In SWAN PEAK, the seventeenth novel in his New York Times best-selling Dave Robicheaux series, two-time Edgar winner James Lee Burke transplants his righteous, complex, and humanly flawed Louisiana lawman to the Bitterroot Mountains of western Montana. Against the bucolic Rocky Mountain backdrop, Burke plots a complicated tale of murder, retribution, power, and ghosts from the past, all marked by the trademark poetic storytelling of a master who can touch you in ways few writers can (The Washington Post).
From Entertainment Weekly:
SWAN PEAK
James Lee Burke
Trying to recover from the emotional devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Burke's much-loved Louisiana detective, Dave Robicheaux, seeks solace on a secluded Montana ranch with his onetime partner Clete Purcell. But their plans for a quiet fishing vacation are soon scuttled. Montana, it seems, is every bit as crime-ridden as New Orleans rife with dead bodies, mobsters, even an escaped prisoner.
Movie Pitch
Imagine a Cajun Dirty Harry.
Last Word
The bucolic setting affects the mystery not one whit Burke remains a master of the crime novel, and Robicheaux, despite his occasionally unsettling penchant for violence, is a man with heart and soul. A
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