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Violence
A lot
Criminal violence; some graphic scenes; the supernatural operates alongside the criminal
Language
A lot
Very strong language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild sexual content
Substance Use
A lot
Heavy drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The mythology of the South — the deal at the crossroads, the debt that comes due — rendered as psychological and sometimes literal reality
What this book is about
A doctor is killed in a hit-and-run. An elderly man claims to be a blues musician who made a deal with the devil at the crossroads decades ago. Two young women are missing. Dave Robicheaux investigates in New Iberia, where the past and the present are, as always, barely distinguishable. James Lee Burke's thirteenth Robicheaux novel is one of his most explicitly mythological — the blues tradition, the Catholic supernatural, and the Louisiana landscape all operate on the same level of reality — and one of his most elegiac. Dave is getting older; the things he fights are getting more abstract.
Notes for sensitive readers
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very strong language
thirteenth of the Robicheaux series
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