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The fifth gripping novel in the highly acclaimed Dave Robicheaux series.

Winner of the Edgar award for best novelEvil crept into Dave Robicheaux's bayou world one night and destroyed the woman he loved. Now it's threatening the life of his innocent child.Framed for murder, the Cajun ex-cop is traveling far from his Louisiana home to clear his name, to help a friend, to save what remains of his family?seeking justice and revenge in the Big Sky Country of Montana.

After finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana's oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin.The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld and show each other no mercy. Yet their youngest heirs, Johnny Shondell and Isolde Balangie, rock and roll-musician teenagers with magical voices, have fallen in love and run away after Isolde was given as a sex slave to Johnny's uncle. As he seeks to uncover why, Detective Dave Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde's mother and the mistress of her father, a venomous New Orleans mafioso whose jealousy has no bounds. In retribution, he hires a mysterious assassin to go after Robicheaux and his longtime partner, Clete Purcel. This hitman is unlike any the ';Bobbsey Twins from Homicide' have ever faced. He has the ability to induce horrifying hallucinations and travels on a menacing ghost ship that materializes without warning. In order to defeat him and rescue Johnny and Isolde, Robicheaux will have to overcome the demons that have tormented him throughout his adult lifealcoholism, specters from combat in Vietnam, and painful memories of women to whom he opened his heart only to see killed. A Private Cathedral, James Lee Burke's fortieth book, is his most powerful tale, one that will captivate readersmixing crime, romance, mythology, horror, and science fiction to produce a thrilling story about the all-consuming, all-conquering power of love.

The third highly acclaimed novel in the Dave Robicheaux series, and winner of the Edgar award.

The 7th Dave Robicheaux novel from Sunday Times bestselling author James Lee Burke

New edition of award-winner James Lee Burke's powerful crime novel set against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina and its devastating effects on New Orleans.

A mesmerising Dave Robicheaux novel from one of American crime fiction's greats.

America's most acclaimed crime writer returns to Louisiana and one of the best-loved detectives in fiction, Dave Robicheaux.

The sixth Dave Robicheaux novel from SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author James Lee Burke.

The second Dave Robicheaux novel from the award-winning crime writer.

The 8th Dave Robicheaux novel from SUNDAY TIMES bestselling and award-winning author James Lee Burke.

A novel in the Dave Robicheaux series, acclaimed as 'one of the wonders of American crime fiction' (MAIL ON SUNDAY)

The 11th Dave Robicheaux novel from bestseller James Lee Burke.

James Lee Burke's legendary detective Dave Robicheaux returns to try to save his daughter from a sadistic killer.

The tenth Robicheaux mystery, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award.

America's most acclaimed crime writer and winner of the 1998 CWA/Macallan Gold Dagger returns to Louisiana with his great detective, Dave Robicheaux

The outstanding first book in the ever-popular Dave Robicheaux series.

'No argument: James Lee Burke is among the finest of all contemporary American novelists' DAILY MAIL

A superb Dave Robicheaux mystery from the multi award-winning crime writer.

One of the greatest American detectives is back! Detective Dave Robicheaux is facing his toughest case yet.

The 9th Dave Robicheaux novel from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling, award-winning author of THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN.

Dave Robicheaux is on the trail of a serial killer, while trying to protect his daughter from a boyfriend with a dark side, in the eighteenth novel in James Lee Burke's classic series.

'A lyrical and lovely novel that takes Burke back to the top of the crimewriting tree where he richly belongs' Independent On Sunday