Helpful Score: 2
I came to James Lee Burke and Dave Robicheaux by accident and now I am hooked!!! I started with Sunset Limited, not knowing there was 9 earlier novels in the series. I am quickly making my way through them and enjoying them immensely. It is not enough to describe them as "mystery" or "thrillers". Burke has introduced me to a whole new world so completely different to the place I live. Dave is a thoroughly believable creation, and might I add one of the sexiest men in fiction! This is my favourite in the series so far, but I still have 6 to read, and then Burke's other novels! I feel like I have not only been entertained by a good story but I have been educated about a place and people that I had no knowledge of.
Deborah C. (bamboochik) reviewed A Stained White Radiance (Dave Robicheaux, Bk 5) on + 54 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
A page turner! Here is an author you will never tire of. Tantalizing descriptions of south Louisiana go along with mystical occurrances and plain old evil culprits that need to be found out and punished one way or the other.
Priscilla B. (Skeeter1942) reviewed A Stained White Radiance (Dave Robicheaux, Bk 5) on + 131 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Great writing, great descriptions, and just about one of the greatest writers of our day
Ruth K. (Stargazer) reviewed A Stained White Radiance (Dave Robicheaux, Bk 5) on + 49 more book reviews
very good book
James S. (oldsarge) reviewed A Stained White Radiance (Dave Robicheaux, Bk 5) on + 85 more book reviews
He keeps you interested and a good book to red on a rainy day while enjoying a cup of coffee on the front porch.
Further adventures of Cajun policeman Dave Robicheaux. Very good story
Sharon S. (SharonS312) reviewed A Stained White Radiance (Dave Robicheaux, Bk 5) on + 475 more book reviews
Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux knows the Sonnier family of New Iberia--their connections to the CIA, the mob, and to a former Klansman now running for state office. And he knows their past, as dark and murky as a night on the Louisiana bayou.
An assassination attempt and the death of a cop draw Robicheaux into the Sonniers' dangerous web of madness, murder and incest.
But Robicheaux has devils of his own. And they've come out of hiding to destroy the tormented investigator--and the two people he holds most dear.
An assassination attempt and the death of a cop draw Robicheaux into the Sonniers' dangerous web of madness, murder and incest.
But Robicheaux has devils of his own. And they've come out of hiding to destroy the tormented investigator--and the two people he holds most dear.
Tom S. (SutterTom) reviewed A Stained White Radiance (Dave Robicheaux, Bk 5) on + 191 more book reviews
A fast paced crime thriller with a continually twisting plot about a Louisiana detective who takes on a powerful & decadent local family, with connections to the CIA, the Mob & the Klan, as he investigates an assassination attempt that resulted in the death of a fellow cop.
Katie F. (katiez) - , reviewed A Stained White Radiance (Dave Robicheaux, Bk 5) on + 17 more book reviews
I've read everything James Lee Burke has ever written, and now I'm reading books written by his real-life daughter, Alafair (who is a character in so many of his books - you can almost watch her grow up if you read his books in chronological order). He sets most of his stories in South Louisiana, and no one gets it right like JLB. The descriptions of the Louisiana landscape, with its dreamy, slow-moving bayous and dreamy, slow-moving way of life, the New Orleans he loves, the dialogue that is right on, even the history and culture of the Acadian, or 'Cajun' people (and in New Orleans, the Creoles - and the Mob)...he gets it all right, and you can tell he loves the place he lives and writes about. (Can you tell I'm a Louisiana lady?) :-)
Since the story is well-described, I won't attempt another description. But I will say that I believe anyone who enjoys a good mystery with in-depth characterizations and plenty of twists and turns, should truly enjoy the incomparable James Lee Burke.
Since the story is well-described, I won't attempt another description. But I will say that I believe anyone who enjoys a good mystery with in-depth characterizations and plenty of twists and turns, should truly enjoy the incomparable James Lee Burke.
The first book I read of this series was Swan Peak (I'm a little behind)! I really enjoyed Swan Peak so I thought I would read some of the others. This one was good, but my least favorite of the four I have now read.
Barbara C. (auntb2) reviewed A Stained White Radiance (Dave Robicheaux, Bk 5) on + 3 more book reviews
this is a typical james lee burke. will pass the time away,but his books are pretty much the same theme over and over.ok,but not great.
thanks, barbara
thanks, barbara
Typical Burke Dave Rovicheaux novel, he puts you right there.
A good solid Dave Robicheaux mystery done with Burke's keen eye for description, setting, and local vernacular.
TJ J. (CraftyTJ) reviewed A Stained White Radiance (Dave Robicheaux, Bk 5) on + 381 more book reviews
Sadistic villains and interior demons plague Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux as the murder of a local cop draws him into the painful conflicts of the Sonnier family, with whom he grew up near the bayous. Weldon Sonnier, an oil speculator perhaps involved with organized crime in New Orleans, is married to the sister of racist Louisiana politician Bobby Earl; Lyle Sonnier is a televangelist with a widely publicized gift of healing that antagonizes the detective, whose wife has lupus; Weldon and Lyle's sister, Drew, whom Robicheaux loved as a teenager, is New Iberia's liberal eccentric. Harshly abused as children, the Sonniers exert a strong pull on Robicheaux, whose desire to help pits him and his former New Orleans police department partner Cletus Purcel against southern Louisiana's fierce Mafia leader and his hired thugs, one of whom, Robicheaux observes, has a face with the "moral depth and complexity of freshly poured cement." While attending AA meetings, trying to cope with both his response to his wife's illness and his moral rage at Earl's politicking, Robicheaux pursues killers through biker bars and unearths long-buried secrets in the Sonnier past. Burke ( A Morning for Flamingos ) resolves the complex case in a satisfying climax as Robicheaux comes to terms with social ills, the evil of individuals and his own helplessness to overcome them.
ANDRE' E. J. (Expeditious) - , reviewed A Stained White Radiance (Dave Robicheaux, Bk 5) on + 504 more book reviews
I have read nearly all of J L Burke's books. Learned something new everytime about his locations. Enjoyed his continuing life-saga of his main character also.
Mary M. (leakey387) reviewed A Stained White Radiance (Dave Robicheaux, Bk 5) on + 132 more book reviews
This book was very enjoyable it kept my interest all the way through.
This is not a hard back but it is larger then a paperback
This is not a hard back but it is larger then a paperback
