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New Iberia, Louisiana, is reeling from the one-two punch of brutal rape-homicides, and drug-addicted blues singer Tee Bobby Hulin hasbeen tagged whilst the prime suspect. No stranger to bucking popular viewpoint, police detective Dave Robicheaux senses it isn't Hulin behind the atrocities. But while placating a city burning for quick vengeance, Robicheaux must confront their own demons -- a final reckoning with Legion Guidry, a figure whose hardcore make of assault remaining Robicheaux embarrassed and addicted to painkillers. Together with his long-time buddy, the boozing and womanizing Clete Purcel, Robicheaux treads among land-mines of mafia payoffs, injustice, and lethal strategies, even while speculating: whom could he trust -- and whom should he worry?