Back of Beyond by C.J. Box Rebel Voice has reviewed a number of C.J. Box’s novels in the Joe Pickett series and found them all of a high standard. Back of Beyond is not of the same story-line nor level of writing. Detective Cody Hoyt is an alcoholic (is there any other type of cop?) […]
Rain Gods by James Lee Burke In his afterword to this book, James Lee Burke states, ‘I think this is my best novel…’ Strong words indeed from an author who has a back-catalogue that is the envy of writers everywhere. Published in 2009, Rain Gods centres upon the aged figure of Hackberry Holland, a sheriff […]
A Morning For Flamingos by James Lee Burke Burke’s back! The purveyor of tales from New Iberia, New Orleans and southern Louisiana has returned to the pages of Rebel Voice, complete with yet another Dave Robicheaux thriller. This is book 4 in the popular series and dates right back to 1992. I won’t tell you […]
A Game of Ghosts by John Connolly This is the latest (2017) in the popular Charlie Parker series, and continues Parker’s battles against the forces of darkness. Charlie Parker is a former cop turned private eye who lost both his wife and young daughter to a serial killer known as the Travelling Man. As Connolly […]
Light of the World by James Lee Burke This is book 20 in the Dave Robicheaux series, and the latest. The next Robicheaux novel is due for release on January 2nd, 2018, so fans don’t have too long to wait. The next edition is titled… Robicheaux (Burke is becoming no nonsense when it comes to […]
Pegasus Descending by James Lee Burke This is book 15 in the popular Dave Robicheaux series. In this installment, the bold detective from New Iberia in Louisiana, encounters the daughter of a friend of his who was gunned down many years before in Miami. Her appearance coincides with the emergence of some seriously bad hombres […]
Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben Rebel Voice has decided that, after the recent break-up with James Lee Burke, we should both see other people. Harlan Coben is an old flame. Whether it is advisable to return to such a relationship is questionable, but here goes. In this first installment of the Myron Bolitar series (1995), […]
Bitterroot by James Lee Burke Alas, the love affair that had blossomed between Rebel Voice and James Lee Burke has at last floundered upon the rocks of inconsistency. We’ve broken up. Bitterroot is not an episode in the Dave Robicheaux series. Instead, it is one in the Billy Bob Holland saga. I have to ask, […]
Cadillac Jukebox by James Lee Burke This is number 9 in the Detective Dave Robicheaux series and was first published way back in 1996 (some of you may not have been born then). It’s one more in Rebel Voice‘s ongoing Burke binge. In this installment, Robicheaux finds himself in a mess as Louisiana’s racist past […]
In The Electric Mist With The Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke This author should get a Nobel prize for literature on the basis of his book titles alone. Added to this one we have such notable names as Black Cherry Blues, A Stained White Radiance and Jolie Blon’s Bounce which has been reviewed by […]
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke Dave Robicheaux is back with a bang. This time he is tasked with helping in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina which has ravaged his native New Orleans. Although Dave is now a member of law enforcement in New Iberia, the authorities in The Big Easy are […]
Jolie Blon’s Bounce by James Lee Burke This novel, set in Louisiana, is yet another gem in the Dave Robicheaux series. In this story, we find Dave on the trail of the rapist/murderers of a young woman in New Iberia. The main suspect is defended by a sex-mad lawyer from a major plantation family […]
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