Sunset Limited [Paperback]

“One of the best novels of the year from one of the very best writers at work today.”—Rocky Mountain News

The townspeople of New Iberia, Louisiana, didn’t crucify Megan Flynn’s father. They just didn’t catch whoever pinned him to a barn wall with sixteen-penny nails.

Decades later, Megan, now a world-famous photojournalist, has come back to the bayou, looking for cop Dave Robicheaux. It was Dave who found the body of labor leader Jack Flynn. The sight changed the boy, shaped him as a man. And after forty years, Robicheaux is still haunted by the bizarre unsolved slaying.

Now Megan’s return has stirred up the ghosts of the long-buried past, igniting a storm of violence that will rip apart lives of blacks and whites in this bayou country. And for a good cop with bad memories, hard desire, and chilling nightmares, the time has come to uncover the truth.“Splendidly atmospheric...with dialogue so sharp you can shave with it.”—People

“One of the best novels of the year from one of the very best writers at work today.”—Rocky Mountain News

“Engrossing...a vivid, violent fable...James Lee Burke outshines himself inSunset Limited.”—Daily News(N.Y.)

“America's best novelist.”—The Denver Post

“Top-drawer work...James Lee Burke just keeps getting better...Burke writes of the bayous, their people and their violence with electrical luminescence. The dialogue crackles like heat lightning and the story races from conflict to conflict. Robicheaux, a modern-day tragic hero, continues to grow as one of crime fiction's major figures.”—San Antonio Express-News

“Burke’s dialogue sounds true as a tape recording; his writing about action is strong and economical. . . . Burke is a prose stylist to be reckol“Y