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Books Read, September 2008

Books Pegasus Descending by James Lee Burke Acheron by by Sherrilyn Kenyon Crown Duel By Sherwood Smith Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen Your Scandalous Ways and Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase Manga and Graphic Novels I thought I read more manga than this for the month, I’m guessing I forgot to log some volumes. Time Stranger Kyoko Forest of Gray City #1, 2 Mixed [...]

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Review: Swan Peak by James Lee Burke

Review: Swan Peak by James Lee Burke This confirms his position as one of the finest American writers

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RIP James Crumley

by Rebecca Schmitz A few years ago at the Montana Festival of the Book a friend and I attended a panel discussion about mystery writing. It featured C.J. Box, Neil McMahon, James Lee Burke and James Crumley. Near the end, the moderator announced the authors would be in the lobby of the Wilma after the session to sign books. [...]

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In the Electric Mist...

Why is no one talking about this upcoming film? James Lee Burke's mystery "In the Electric Mist With the Confederate Dead," which I read years ago when I was on a Burke kick (and I still think he's one of...

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Swan Peak -- James Lee Burke

When you read a novel by James Lee Burke, you can be sure that the writing will be eloquent, the plotting will be all over the map, and the narration will switch between first and third person. It switches a lot in Swan Peak , and I'll tell you why that bothers me. It makes me wonder who's telling the story. I have no problem accepting a novel narrated in first person, but when the switches some fast...

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Book Review: Swan peak by James Lee Burke

Two years after Katrina ripped apart New Orleans, Clete and Dave and his family are spending the summer in Montana. The “Bobbsey Twins from Homicide” are far older these days physically and mentally and both are in deep mourning. Not only in regards to their lives and the choices they have made or had forced [...]

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Gustav moves across Louisiana

This is a recent report from my sister. Gustav made landfall at Cocodrie in Terrebonne parish - http://www.cocodriela.com/ mapofarea.asp beautiful pictures on this site. The eye is over Morgan City http://www.cityofmc.com/ - should be over New Iberia (home of James Lee Burke, author of the great Dave Robichaux novels which feature a New Iberia detective http://www. iberiatravel.com/jame.php 2:00 and...

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James Lee Burke - Swan Peak

I am currently listening to this mystery novel. The narrator, Will Patton, is outstanding as always. James Lee Burke writes about violence, its reasons, and its outcomes. He includes this classic quote: "He closed his cell phone and flipped it over his shoulder onto the bed. If ever reincarnated, he vowed, he would live in a [...]

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New Orleans James Lee Burke's tips

Author James Lee Burke's offers his advice on where to go in New Orleans.

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James Lee Burke's New Orleans

Three years on from Hurricane Katrina Martin Jackson meets crime writer James Lee Burke in New Orleans.

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More for Your To-Be-Read Pile

There’s a particularly rich crop of other “forgotten book” choices sprouting up around the blogosphere today. Among the works chosen: A Morning for Flamingos, by James Lee Burke; Los Alamos, by Joseph Kanon; Balling the Jack, by Frank Baldwin; Stone Angel, by Marvin H. Albert; and Down in the Dumps, by H. Mel Malton. In addition, this week’s series coordinator, Brian Lindenmuth, hosts a number

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Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke - Review

In order to clear himself of a first-degree murder charge, Dave Robicheaux goes to Montana to investigate a mobster's take-over of tribal lands.

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Books: 'Swan Peak'

Poor old Clete Purcell. He can't even go fishing without running into trouble. In James Lee Burke's gripping new novel, "Swan Peak," that's just what happens to lawman Dave Robicheaux's more-than-half-crazy sidekick.

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Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke(audiobook)

Burke pits a land-hungry oil company against a Blackfeet Indian reservation in a stunning novel that takes detective fiction into new imaginative realms. His Cajun sleuth, Dave Robicheaux, an ex-New Orleans cop featured in two previous novels, attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, has recurrent nightmares about his murdered wife, and cares for an adopted El Salvadoran refugee girl. When two American...

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Crime: Missing Girl, Lost Boys

In Karin Fossum’s “Black Seconds,” the loss of a child implies something awful about the future of an entire village. Also reviewed: James Lee Burke’s “Swan Peak”; Jincy Willett’s “Writing Class”; and Will Thomas’s “Black Hand.”