Black Cherry BluesPersonal tragedy has left Dave Robicheaux close to the edge. Battling against his old addiction to alcohol and haunted nightly by vivid dreams and visitations, Dave finds his only tranquillity at home with his young ward Alafair. But even this fragile peace is shattered by the arrival of Dixie Lee Pugh who brings with him a brutal trail of murder and violence. Robicheaux reluctantly agrees to help out his old friend but becomes more involved than he

the daughter of King Leopold II of the Belgians

Charlie Parker Is Their Only Hope

featuring dragons

from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America

wealthy aristocrat of great local renown

'A classic crime story seen through a uniquely Icelandic lens

'I loved that behind this disturbing and clever plot there's a genuinely heartrending story

forged new techniques in battle

found at long last

the meals memorialized in this diary are a prism through which he reflects on the ways his life

In this title

She knows she’s in the tenth percentile for likability