Dave Robicheaux has spent his existence confronting the age-old adage how the sins of the daddy pass on towards the son. But that which was his mother’s legacy? Deceased to him since his youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Robicheaux’s brain. He’s resided with the actual fact that he’d never really know very well what occurred to the girl who left him towards the devices of the whiskey-driven dad. But deep down, Dave still feels the increased loss of his mom and knows that the infinite group of about Crimson Cane Street disappointments in her life could not have come to a good end.

While supporting out a vintage friend, Dave is stunned whenever a pimp looks at him sideways and asks if he’s the son of Mae Guillory, the whore a couple of cops murdered thirty years ago. Her body was dumped in the bayou bordering Crimson Cane Road, and the cops who remaining her there are still on the job.

Dave’s search for his mother’s killers potential clients him towards the darker places in his recent, and solving this case shows him what it means to become his mother’s boy. Purple Cane Road has the dimensions of a common — enthusiasm, murder, and almost heartbreaking poignancy — covered within a wonderfully executed story that surprises from begin to finish.