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A superbly split novel of crime, personality, and location in the two-time Edgar Award winner, Gold Dagger Award winner, and Ny Times-Bestselling writer of  Sunset Limited.Few writers in The Usa today combine James Lee Burke's lush prose, crackling story-lines, and tremendous sense of history and landscape.  In Cimmaron Rose, longtime fans of the Dave Robicheaux series unearthed that the challenges of Arizona defense lawyer Billy Bob Holland display Burke at his best-in discovering traditional American styles--the sometimes delicate, frequently chaotic traces between your haves and the have-nots; the impact of past and current; the inequities in the criminal justice system.Heartwood is just a type of tree that grows in levels. And as Billy Bob's grandmother once told him, you prosper in life by maintaining the origins in a definite flow and not allowing anybody taint the water for you. However in Hollandis messy small neighborhood of Deaf Smith, in the hill country north of Austin, nearby kingpin Earl Deitrich has built a lot of money running tainting and roughshod anybody who stands in his way. Billy Bob has issues with Deitrich and his shamelessly questionable attitude, but can not move the heritage of his enthusiasm for Deitrich's "heartbreak-stunning" spouse, Peggy Jean.When Netherlands assumes the protection of Wilbur Pickett--a guy accused of robbing an antique and 3 hundred thousand dollars in securities from Deitrich's company--he finds herself facing not only Earl's energy and impact, but also a previous Billy Bob can not may away.  An incredibly realized book, full of Tx environment and lore, and a stunning face of the life-threatening effects of self-delusion, Heartwood might only have now been compiled by James Lee Burke, a writer in Specialist order of his craft.From the Hardcover version.