Last car to Elysian Fields

By James Lee Burke

Subjects: Police, Dave Robicheaux (Fictitious character), Large type books, Refuse and refuse disposal, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Traffic accidents, Robicheaux, Dave (Fictitious character), Robicheaux, dave (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, Clergy, Detective & mystery, Detective and mystery stories

Description: For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him. So to return there—as he does in Last Car to Elysian Fields—means visiting old ghosts, exposing old wounds, opening himself up to new, yet familiar, dangers. When Robicheaux, now a police officer based in the somewhat quieter Louisiana town of New Iberia, learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, a Catholic priest always at the center of controversy, has been the victim of a particularly brutal assault, he knows he has to return to New Orleans to investigate, if only unofficially. What he doesn’t realize is that in doing so he is inviting into his life—and into the lives of those around him—an ancestral evil that could destroy them all.