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Journal Entry
on December 27, 2017
Published by Simon & Schuster on January 2, 2018
Dave Robicheaux falls off the wagon, has a blackout, and finds himself accused of murdering T.J. Dartez, the man who was responsible for his wife’s death. That’s a fairly standard thriller plot but James Lee Burke is not a standard thri ...
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Journal Entry
on August 10, 2020
Published by Simon & Schuster on August 11, 2020
Like many Robicheaux novels, A Private Cathedral is a meditation on the nature of evil. Crime writers have a tendency to conceptualize evil as a force, sometimes one that has supernatural origins. James Lee Burke did that in Light of the World . He ...
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Journal Entry
on January 7, 2019
Published by Simon & Schuster on January 8, 2019
“There are moments when you realize that our greatest vanity lies in the belief that we have control of our lives and that reason holds sway in human affairs.” Dave Robicheaux is prone to moments of darkness, an understandable reaction ...
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Journal Entry
on July 24, 2013
Published by Simon & Schuster on July 23, 2013
As the opening paragraphs of the twentieth Dave Robicheaux novel expressly state, Light of the World is an exploration of evil, a familiar theme in James Lee Burke's books. It is Robicheaux's tale of how "one of the most wicked creatures on earth mad ...