In a recovery unit on St. Charles Avenue‚ Dave Robicheaux is fighting an enemy more insidious than the one who put a bullet in his back a month earlier: morphine is playing tricks on his mind and luring him back into the addict mentality. Then Tee Jolie Melton‚ a young woman with a troubled past‚ visits and leaves an iPod that plays “My Creole Belle.” But Tee Jolie disappeared weeks ago‚ and no one believes she reappeared to comfort an...

"On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenaged Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooming young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny...

In post-Katrina New Orleans, there is no law, no order, no sanctuary for the helpless and the innocent. In the midst of this nightmare, Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a drug-addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be more dangerous that the criminals looting the city.

Trouble follows Dave Robicheaux. Swan Peak finds Detective Robicheaux far from his New Iberia roots, attempting to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montana. He, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcell have retreated to stay at an old friend's ranch, hoping to spend their days fishing and enjoying their distance from the harsh, gritty landscape of Louisiana post-Katrina. But the serenity is soon shattered when two college students are found...

Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood director. Twenty-five years later, when Robicheaux knocks on Cormier's door, it isn't to congratulate him on his Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Robicheaux has discovered...

A former cop living in a tranquil rural area stumbles into intrigue between the DEA and a ruthless drug ring.