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Readers who mourn the late John D. MacDonald may have reason to take heart...The latest book featuring Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has elements common to the best of McGee: boats, brawls, drug dealers, murder and the singular language of the South. - Detroit Free Press

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A Morning for Flamingos is a classic Dave Robicheaux Louisiana mystery by New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.

Desperately holding together the pieces of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New Iberia police force. While transporting two death-row prisoners, Dave is wounded, his partner is killed. Now he´s trailing a killer into the heart of the Big Easy´s underworld.

Embroiled in a world of drug dealers, prostitutes, and double-crosses, Robicheaux is forced to confront his most dangerous enemy: himself.

Absorbing and masterfully executed, A Morning for Flamingos is one of Edgar Award-winning author James Lee Burke´s most enduring southern crime novels.

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"No one writes better detective novels. . .A creator of muscular, violent, headlong stories that honor and at the same time expand conventions of the form. . .Truly astonishing." Washington Post Book World

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James Lee Burke is the author of nineteen novels, including eleven starring the Detective Dave Robicheaux. Burke grew up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast, where he now lives with his wife, Pearl, and spends several months of the year in Montana.

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