Book description
The 8th Dave Robicheaux novel from SUNDAY TIMES bestselling and award-winning author James Lee Burke.
Sonny Boy Marsallas, a New Orleans street hustler, entrusts Detective Dave Robicheaux with a mysterious notebook, kicking off a series of violent incidents and raising questions that need answers, and fast...
What did Sonny's girlfriend…
Why read it?
1 author picked Burning Angel as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Great characters, storytelling, and the best prose in the genre drive a great read. The author pulled me into a story that I only later thought was implausible. The story thoroughly engrossed me.
Burke carries the reader into a mysterious world of noir at its finest. In every bayou, every parish, and every heart, there is some dark secret lurking, ever beckoning us to step a little further into his world. This is a brilliant example of hard-boiled mystery storytelling.
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The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.
The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.
Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…
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