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Clete

by James Lee Burke · Dave Robicheaux series

Clete Purcel, Robicheaux's volatile partner and oldest friend, takes center stage in Burke's bayou noir. A case pulls Clete back into his own damaged past while navigating the moral swamp of Louisiana crime, loyalty, and the long reach of old sins—written with Burke's characteristic attention to landscape, violence, and the weight of memory.

Dave Robicheaux in reading order

• 1. The Neon Rain — James Lee Burke
• 2. Heaven's Prisoners — James Lee Burke
• 3. Black Cherry Blues — James Lee Burke
• 4. A Morning for Flamingos — James Lee Burke
• 5. A Stained White Radiance — James Lee Burke
• 6. In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead — James Lee Burke
• 8. Burning Angel — James Lee Burke
• 9. Cadillac Jukebox — James Lee Burke
• 10. Sunset Limited — James Lee Burke / Freddy Michalski
• 11. Purple Cane Road — James Lee Burke
• 12. Jolie Blon's Bounce — James Lee Burke
• 13. Last Car to Elysian Fields — James Lee Burke
• 14. Crusader's Cross — James Lee Burke
• 15. Pegasus Descending — James Lee Burke
• 16. The Tin Roof Blowdown — James Lee Burke / Will Patton
• 17. Swan Peak — James Lee Burke
• 18. The Glass Rainbow — James Lee Burke
• 19. Creole belle — James Lee Burke
• 20. Light Of The World — James Lee Burke
• 22. The New Iberia Blues — James Lee Burke
• 23. A Private Cathedral — James Lee Burke
• 26. Clete — James Lee Burke

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