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TangognaT (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
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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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Review: Swan Peak by James Lee Burke This confirms his position as one of the finest American writers
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4&20 blackbirds (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
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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Notes from Underdog. (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
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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Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
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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Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
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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PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
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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DB's Medical Rants (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
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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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
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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Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
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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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
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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full and free download (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
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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New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
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.”
