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Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com ReviewIn this winner of the 1990 Edgar Award for best mystery novel, Dave Robicheaux, a former New Orleans policeman, is pursued by a psychopath and flees his home on the Bayou Teche, in the heart of Louisiana, to find a new life in Montana. After settling near the Blackfoot River Canyon, Robicheaux finds himself smack dab in the middle of an illegal Mafia takeover of Indian lands. As he struggles to expose the truth, he must face some hard facts about himself, especially after the appearance of an old Cajun friend, Dixie Lee Pughe. From Publishers WeeklyBurke 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 Indian activists disappear, Robicheaux's dogged investigation not only sets him on a collision course with Mafia thugs and oil interests, but also leads him into a romance with Darlene American Horse, his ex-partner's girlfr

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
James Lee Burke
Publisher
Avon Books
Published
1990
Language
EN
ISBN
9780380712045
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Thriller, Mystery
Rating
4.17 / 5 (9,755 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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