James Lee Burke: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (USA 2018)

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The filming of a Civil War movie forces Dave Robicheaux to confront demons that stand in the way of his salvation.
When Hollywood invades New Iberia Parish to film a Civil War epic, restless specters waiting in the shadows for Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux are reawakened -- ghosts of a history best left undisturbed. Hunting a serial killer preying on the lawless young, Robicheaux comes up close and personal with the elusive guardians of his darkest torments -- who hold the key to his ultimate salvation... or a final, fatal downfall.

In this "entertaining, satisfying, thought-provoking" (The Baltimore Sun) Dave Robicheaux mystery, James Lee Burke explores new narrative territory with qualified success, leading his Cajun detective into a series of dreamlike encounters with a troop of Confederate soldiers under General John Bell Hood.

James Lee Burke: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead. A Dave Robicheaux Novel. Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 9781982100315 (November, 2018), 368 p., $16.00.

James Lee Burke: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (USA 2011)

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Back in print at last, James Lee Burke's suspense-packed sixth novel in his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series delivers a heart-pounding bayou manhunt -- and features "one of the colest, earthiest heroes in thrilerdom" (Entertainment Weekly).

When Hollywood invades New Iberia Parish to film a Civil War epic, restless specters waiting in the shadows for Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux are reawakened -- ghosts of a history best left undisturbed. Hunting a serial killer preying on the lawless young, Robicheaux comes face-to-face with the elusive guardians of his darkest torments -- who hold the key to his ultimate salvation... or a final, fatal downfall.

James Lee Burke: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead. A Dave Robicheaux Novel. Pocket Books, ISBN: 9781439167601 (October, 2011), 471 p., $9.99.

James Lee Burke: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (UK 2010)

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The sixth Dave Robicheaux novel from SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author James Lee Burke.
Hunting a sadistic killer who targets young prostitutes, Detective Dave Robicheaux has no mind to be sidetracked into persuading ex-schoolmate mobster Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni to leave town. And it turns out that Balboni is the money behind a Civil War movie that's bringing in good business.

But then the film crew stumble on a skeleton out in the bayou, and the links between a thirty-year-old lynching, a Civil War general, Balboni and the serial killer lead Dave into treacherous waters, with only a handful of unexpected allies to help him protect his own.

James Lee Burke: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead. Orion eBook, ISBN: 9781409124054 (June, 2010), 964 KB (ca. 388 p.), £6.99.

James Lee Burke: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (UK 1997)

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Hunting a sadistic killer who targets young prostitutes, Detective Dave Robicheaux has no mind to be sidetracked into persuading ex-schoolmate mobster Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni to leave town. And it turns out that Balboni is the money behind a Civil War movie that's bringing in good business.

But then the film crew stumble on a skeleton out in the bayou, and the links between a thirty-year-old lynching, a Civil War general, Balboni and the serial killer lead Dave into treacherous waters, with only a handful of unexpected allies to help him protect his own.

James Lee Burke: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead. Orion Books, ISBN: 0752810650 (June, 1997), 391 p., £5.99.

James Lee Burke: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (USA 1994)

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Hollywood has sent its emissaries to New Iberia Parish to film a Civil War epic in the steaming mists of the Louisiana bayou - reawakening the ghosts of a past best left undisturbed.

The restless specters wait in the shadows for cajun cop Dave Robicheaux - as he hunts a serial butcher who is preying on the less-then-innocent young. For these spirits are the guardians of Robicheaux's darkest torments - and they hold the key to his ultimate salvation...or a final, fatal downfall.

James Lee Burke: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead. Avon Books; ISBN: 038072121X (July, 1994), 384 p., $7.99.

James Lee Burke: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (UK 1993)

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A movie crew has come to New Iberia, Louisiana, to film a Civil War epic, and star Elrod Sykes just can't seem to keep his lavender Cadillac on the road. Under threat of a drunk-driving charge, he offers detective Dave Robicheaux information in exchange for leniency: he leads him to the skeletal remains of a black man whose murder Robicheaux witnessed in the summer of 1957 as a college freshman. The still unsolved crime haunts him as he grapples with a more pressing contemporary horror, the serial rape and murder of young prostitutes.

When the FBI arrives in the person of agent Rosie Gomez, Robicheaux must form a new partnership that challenges how he views himself and his local community, where officials have joined forces with such dubious 'talent' as Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni, an investor in the movie project that is generating much needed income for the region.

But it is only when Robicheaux makes the acquaintance of the legendary Confederate cavalry officer General John Bell Hood in the mist of the bayou that he begins to understand that "the war is never over", and that the battle rages on.

James Lee Burke's brilliant handling of a multilayered plot, entwined with a reverie on the death of the chivalric code in the South, makes for a stunning novel in a series that is redefining the genre.

James Lee Burke: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead. Orion Books, ISBN: 185797252X (October, 1993), 344 p., £15.99.