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Named one of the better crime novels of 2019 by The New York Situations Book Review.

The shocking death of a young woman qualified prospects Detective Dave Robicheaux in to the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana with this gripping mystery from “modern grasp” (Publishers Weekly) Adam Lee Burke.

Detective Dave Robicheaux’s world isn’t filled with too many content stories, but Desmond Cormier’s rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of these. Robicheaux initial about THE BRAND NEW Iberia Blues: A Dave Robicheaux Novel met Cormier in the roads of New Orleans, when the youthful, undersized boy acquired foolish dreams to become a Hollywood movie 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 offers discovered the body of a young woman who’s been crucified, putting on only a small chain on her behalf ankle. She vanished near Cormier’s Cyrpemort Point estate, and Robicheaux, along with young deputy, Sean McClain, want for answers. Neither Cormier nor his enigmatic actor friend Antoine Butterworth are saying very much, but Robicheaux knows better.

As always, Clete Purcel and Dave’s girl, Alafair, have Robicheaux’s back again. Clete witnesses the get away of Texas inmate, Hugo Tillinger, who may hold the crucial to Robicheaux’s case. As they wade further into the analysis, they result in the crosshairs of the mob, the deranged Chester Wimple, and the dark ghosts Robicheaux continues to be running from for a long time. Eventually, it’s up to Robicheaux to stop them all, but he’ll need to summon a light he’s hardly ever seen or felt to save himself, and the ones he loves.

Stephen Ruler hailed New York Times bestselling writer Adam Lee Burke “as great as he ever was.” Today, with The New Iberia Blues, Burke proves that he “remains the heavyweight champ, an excellent American novelist whose function, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed” (Michael Connelly).