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In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead

In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead Hardcover - 1993

by James Lee Burke

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A masterwork of detective fiction--the most suspenseful, thematically dazzling accomplishment in the Robicheaux series. While Hollywood shoots a Civil War movie in the New Iberia parish, Robicheaux tries to contain local dissension about the way the movie company's money is making its way into the community--and gets busy with the real business of murder.

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Hyperion Press, 1993. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead
  • Author James Lee Burke
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hyperion Press, New York
  • Date 1993
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G1562828827I3N00
  • ISBN 9781562828820 / 1562828827
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.29 x 6.46 x 1.03 in (23.60 x 16.41 x 2.62 cm)
  • Ages 18 to 17 years
  • Grade levels 13 - 12
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: Mid-South
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
  • Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, Robicheaux, Dave (Fictitious character) -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92026615
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the rear cover

From one of America's most widely acclaimed writers comes a masterwork of detective fiction, the most suspenseful, thematically complex, and dazzling accomplishment in the series featuring Dave Robicheaux. 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. It is only when Dave 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.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 03/01/1993, Page 1116
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/25/1993, Page 0

About the author

James Lee Burke is the New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award-winning author of twenty-four novels, including eighteen starring the Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux. Burke grew up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast, where he now lives with his wife Pearl. They also spend several months a year in Montana.