On May 26th, Detective Dave Robicheaux returns in A Private Cathedral, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke. For Robicheaux, who was last seen in New Iberia Blues (2019), this will be his twenty-third go-around, though Burke’s latest book will not take place in the present day.
Burke, who lives in Missoula, Montana, visits often for book signings. He is one of only two authors to have won two Edgar Awards. His novel The Lost Get Back Boogie was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
How old is Lee Burke?
84 yearsDecember 5, 1936
Who writes Dave Robicheaux?
James Lee Burke
Why is Dave Robicheaux called streak?
Married to Dave’s father, Aldous Robicheaux, she continued to look for the man of her dreams. She picked the wrong one when she left Dave’s father. Dave Robicheaux, known as « Streak » to his friend Clete Purcell, with whom he served as a policeman in the New Orleans police department, is a policeman in New Iberia, La.
Who is Dave Robicheaux?
Dave Robicheaux (pronounced « Row-bih-show ») is a fictional character in a series of mystery novels by American crime writer James Lee Burke.
What is the first Dave Robicheaux novel?
The Neon Rain
Where does James Lee Burke live?
Missoula, Montana
Who was Dave Robicheaux’s first wife?
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How did Dave Robicheaux’s wives died?
His third wife, Molly, is dead, killed in a car accident. Dave has recurring nightmares about his time in Vietnam, and he’s haunted by Civil War Confederate soldiers who fought and died near his home. . He falls off the wagon and, in a drunken blackout, he fears he may have murdered the man who killed his wife.
Where does Dave Robicheaux live?
New Iberia
How many wives has Robicheaux had?
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Did Dave Robicheaux die in the glass rainbow?
At the end of the last Robicheaux novel, The Glass Rainbow, Dave, a detective in the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Department, lay dying in his own yard, shot through the chest and about to surrender to a vision of a paddlewheel steamboat on the Teche bearing his smiling parents and other ghosts.
How many wives did Dave Robicheaux have?
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How old is Dave Robicheaux?
Robicheaux is described as 54 years old in the introduction to the Recorded Books CD edition of Black Cherry Blues (the third book in the series, published in 1989), but, in the third track of the audiobook, Robicheaux describes himself as 49 years old.
Where was in the Electric Mist filmed?
Scenes were shot in locations along the West Atchafalaya Basin levee from Catahoula, Louisiana to ten miles south of the Charenton Boat landing near Charenton, Louisiana. A few of the scenes were shot in New Orleans.
What is In the Electric Mist about?
A Louisiana detective tries to link the murder of a local prostitute to a New Orleans mobster who is co-producing a Civil War film. He embarks on a surreal investigation while looking for a serial killer.
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