Mystery Books
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The Black Angel: A Thriller (Charlie Parker Mysteries)
When a young woman disappears from the streets of New York City, ties of friendship and blood inevitably draw ingenious, tortured
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Death Angel: A Novel
In Linda Howard’s gifted hands, second chances, unexpected romance, and unrelenting action combine into a riveting new novel of
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The Ghostway
Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry l
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Pop Goes the Weasel (Alex Cross)
Detective Alex Cross is back-and he's in love. But his happiness is threatened by a series of chilling murders in Washington, D.C.
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The Survivor
It had been one of the worst crashes in airline history, with over 300 dead and only one survivor. Now the dead were bur
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Good Blood (A Gideon Oliver Mystery)
What was supposed to be an Italian vacation for forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver and his wife turns into a busman's holiday w
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Mystery Movies
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Flightplan (Widescreen Edition)
Academy Award(R) winner Jodie Foster (Best Actress, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, 1991) gives an outstanding performance in the heart-
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Primal Fear
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Event Horizon (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
The year is 2047. Years earlier, the pioneering research vessel Event Horizon vanished without a trace. Now a signal from it has
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The Butterfly Effect (Infinifilm Edition)
A young man struggling to access sublimated childhood memories finds a technique that allows him to travel back to the past. Occup
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12 Monkeys (Special Edition)
Inspired by Chris Marker's acclaimed short film La Jetée (which is included on the DVD Short 2: Dreams), 12 Monkeys combines int
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Mystery Authors
Book reviews - The Tin Roof Blowdown
The Tin Roof BlowdownAuthor: James Lee Burke In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana.
This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. The power grid of the city has been destroyed, New Orleans reduced to the level of a medieval society. There is no law, no order, no sanctuary for the infirm, the helpless, and the innocent. Bodies float in the streets and lie impaled on the branches of flooded trees. In the midst of an apocalyptical nightmare, Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be more dangerous than the criminals looting the city.
In a singular style that defies genre, James Lee Burke has created a hauntingly bleak picture of life in New Orleans after Katrina. Filled with complex characters and depictions of people at both their best and worst, The Tin Roof Blowdown is not only an action-packed crime thriller, but a poignant story of courage and sacrifice that critics are already calling Burke's best work. Tags:
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Mystery fiction
New Orleans (La.)
Police - Louisiana - New Orleans
Police
Robicheaux, Dave (Fictitious character)
Fiction
General
Mystery & Detective
Hard-Boiled
Police Procedural
Suspense
Political
US publication:
2007
Detective:
Dave Robicheaux
Genre:
novels
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