Robicheaux: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Adam Lee Burke’s most beloved personality, Dave Robicheaux, profits in this NY Times bestselling secret occur the towns and backwoods of Louisiana: an “enthralling yet grim book that…can captivate, start to finish” (Web publishers Weekly).

Dave Robicheaux is normally a haunted man. Through the acts he dedicated in Vietnam, to his battles with alcoholism, towards the sudden loss of his dearest wife, Molly, his thoughts drift in one irreconcilable memory space to another. Images of spirits pepper his reality..Read More about Robicheaux: A Novel Robicheaux’s only beacon remains serving like a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana.

It’s for the reason that capacity that Robicheaux crosses paths with powerful mob manager, Tony Nemo. Tony includes a Civil Battle sword he’d like to share with Levon Broussard, a favorite local writer whose books have already been adapted into major Hollywood films. Then there’s Jimmy Nightengale, the young poster son of New Orleans wealth and glamour. Jimmy’s keen on Levon’s work, and even fonder of his beautiful, enigmatic wife, Rowena. Tony feels Jimmy could be a US Senator someday, and gets the assets and clout to make it happen. There’s something off about the partnership among these three guys, and after a vicious assault, it’s up to Robicheaux to uncover the truth “in the barn-burner of a climax” (Booklist, starred review).

Complicating matters is the unexpected death of the brand new Iberian local in charge of Molly’s death; namely that Robicheaux’s colleague thinks Robicheaux got something to do with it. As Robicheaux works to very clear his name and make sense of the murder, a harrowing research of America emerges: this nation’s abiding turmoil between a feeling of previous grandeur and a legacy of pity, its easy seduction by demagogues and prosperity, and its predilection for violence and revenge. “It’s been nearly five years since James Lee Burke’s last Dave Robicheaux book, and it had been absolutely worth the wait around” (Associated Press).