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Dave Robicheaux, now a police officer in the quieter town of New Iberia, is drawn back to New Orleans when an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, a contentious Catholic priest, is violently assaulted. Robicheaux, unwillingly a witness to the investigation, must navigate the city’s shadows and his own troubled past. The return forces him to face old memories and new threats, creating a tense mystery that pulls him deeper into the city’s underbelly.
First publish date: 2003
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: James Lee Burke
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