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James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke
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James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke, a rare winner of two Edgar Awards, and named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, is the author of thirty-one previous novels and two collections of short stories, including such New York Times bestsellers as The Glass Rainbow, Swan Peak, The Tin Roof Blowdown, Last Car to Elysian Fields, and Rain Gods. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

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Light of the World will be released on July 23, 2013 in Audio Download
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Light of the World will be released on July 23, 2013 in Hardcover, eBook Reflowable, Compact Disk, eBook
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Creole Belle will be released on August 27, 2013 in Mass Market Paperback
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Feast Day of Fools will be released on July 16, 2013 in Compact Disk
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White Doves at Morning will be released on April 20, 2013 in Trade Paperback
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White Doves at Morning is now available in Trade Paperback
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To the Bright and Shining Sun will be released on April 02, 2013 in Audio Download
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To the Bright and Shining Sun is now available in Audio Download
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In the Moon of Red Ponies will be released on February 09, 2013 in Trade Paperback
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In the Moon of Red Ponies is now available in Trade Paperback
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Two for Texas
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Edmund Evening Sun, May 16, 2013
...m researching for a book. I like World War Two-based fiction, “The Book Thief,” crime novels, anything by James Lee Burke, and Oklahoma writers LeAnne Howe, Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday. I enjoy travels to rivers and mountains, especially the...
GoMemphis.com, May 16, 2013
...one. The movie seems to have been adapted from a novel that doesn’t exist — something by James Lee Burke, perhaps, or Cormac McCarthy, or some other specialist in frequently violent tales about the challenges to masculinity and the forging of new...
TCPalm, May 12, 2013
...force and its often obnoxious tourists, has been the setting for a couple of outstanding crime novels, including James Lee Burke’s “The Tin Roof Blowdown” and Sara Gran’s quirky “Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead.” Loehfelm’s “The...
Library Journal, May 3, 2013
...At the Mystery Writers of America’s  67th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner, held Thursday evening at Manhattan’s Grand Hyatt Hotel, Dennis Lehane’s historical crime novel Live By Nigh t won the Edgar for Best Novel. Surprisingly it was a first...
Capital Times, April 30, 2013
...force and its often obnoxious tourists, has been the setting for a couple of outstanding crime novels, including James Lee Burke's "The Tin Roof Blowdown" and Sara Gran's quirky "Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead." Loehfelm's "The Devil in Her Way"...
AL.com, April 10, 2013
...job of recreating the South Carolina Low Country. Steve Knutson, circulation library specialist, particularly likes the work of James Lee Burke. Over the years, Burke worked as a landman for Sinclair Oil Company, pipe liner, land surveyor, newspaper...
Irish Times, April 6, 2013
...whether in misty black and white such as on Phil Rickman’s The Secrets of Pain or on James Lee Burke’s Feast Day of Fools , all brooding browns and golds with a trio of crosses in silhouette. You might expect a bit of Bible-bashing from...
The Australian, May 24, 2013
...work owes as much to recent American hardboiled fiction such as that of Robert Crais, Michael Connelly and James Lee Burke. "The black novel is mankind driven to madness in a bar or in the dark; it describes men and women whom circumstances have pushed...
Globe and Mail, May 17, 2013
...a place and time: Raymond Chandler’s Marlowe in L.A., Robert B. Parker’s Spenser in Boston, James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux in rural Louisiana and New Orleans. From the very first line of his first novel, Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins series set...
Edmund Evening Sun, May 16, 2013
...m researching for a book. I like World War Two-based fiction, “The Book Thief,” crime novels, anything by James Lee Burke, and Oklahoma writers LeAnne Howe, Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday. I enjoy travels to rivers and mountains, especially the...
GoMemphis.com, May 16, 2013
...one. The movie seems to have been adapted from a novel that doesn’t exist — something by James Lee Burke, perhaps, or Cormac McCarthy, or some other specialist in frequently violent tales about the challenges to masculinity and the forging of new...
TCPalm, May 12, 2013
...force and its often obnoxious tourists, has been the setting for a couple of outstanding crime novels, including James Lee Burke’s “The Tin Roof Blowdown” and Sara Gran’s quirky “Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead.” Loehfelm’s “The...
Charlotte Observer, May 10, 2013
...When we first met Maureen Coughlin in 2011?s ?The Devil She Knows,? the petite cocktail waitress was drifting through life, fearful that she lacked the gumption to ever become anything more. But by the end of that noir crime novel, Bill Loehfelm?s...
Malta Independent Daily, May 10, 2013
...force and its often obnoxious tourists, has been the setting for a couple of outstanding crime novels, including James Lee Burke's "The Tin Roof Blowdown" and Sara Gran's quirky "Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead." Loehfelm's "The Devil in Her Way"...