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“It’s difficult to think about the Louisiana bayou without conjuring up David Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux books” (Chicago Tribune), including this early masterwork that starts the Cajun police detective against among the New South’s many complicated and effective causes. Acrylic speculator Weldon Sonnier may be the patriarch of the struggling household thoroughly bound for the CIA, the Mafia, and the Klan. Today, the murder of a policeman and a weird killing test draw Robicheaux in to the Sonniers’ hellish world of chaos, murder, and incest. But Robicheaux has demons of his own— and they might simply ruin the investigator and both people he holds most dear.