Pegasus Descending - (Dave Robicheaux) by James Lee Burke (Paperback)

About the Book

In this haunting new novel, "New York Times" bestselling author Burke takes readers back to New Orleans, where detective Dave Robicheaux becomes engulfed in a dangerous mystery surrounding a beautiful girl and stolen money.

Book Synopsis

Dave Robicheaux is back in a dangerous mystery that involves stolen money, gritty casinos, and a beautiful girl with connections to his past.

When a nice young woman named Trish Klein blows into Louisiana, passing hundred-dollar bills in local casinos, detective Dave Robicheaux senses a storm bearing down on his new life of contentment. Twenty-five years ago, lost in a drunken haze in Florida, Robicheaux was too far gone to save his friend and fellow 'Nam vet Dallas Klein, murdered in cold blood for gambling debts. Now, the arrival of Dallas's daughter opens a door locked long ago, and extracting her motives points Robicheaux to the suicide of a local "good girl" pulled into a vortex of power, sex, and death. It's Robicheaux's most personally painful case--a roller coaster of passion, surprise, and regret--and it may be his deadliest.

Review Quotes

"America's best novelist."

-- The Denver Post

"Burke can touch you in ways few writers can."

-- The Washington Post

"America's best novelist."
-- The Denver Post

"Burke can touch you in ways few writers can."
-- The Washington Post

"America's best novelist."
-- "The Denver Post"

"Burke can touch you in ways few writers can."
-- "The Washington Post"

"America's best novelist."

-- "The Denver Post"

"America's best novelist."

-- "The Denver Post"

"Burke can touch you in ways few writers can."

-- "The Washington Post"

"America's best novelist."

-- "The Denver Post"

"Burke can touch you in ways few writers can."

-- "The Washington Post"

"Seductive....Burke keep[s] a reader's blood pumping."

-- "Los Angeles Times"

"America's best novelist." -- The Denver Post

"America's best novelist."

-- "The Denver Post"

About the Author

James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.