Cadillac Jukebox - (Dave Robicheaux) by James Lee Burke (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Everyone knew that Aaron Crown shot Louisiana's most famous civil rights attorney 28 years ago; it just took that long to assemble a jury that would convict him. But Detective Dave Robicheaux--the character popularized by Burke in eight previous novels including the bestsellers "Dixie City Jam" and "Burning Angel"--knows that, somehow, he must find out the truth about Aaron Crown: a truth that too many people want hidden.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>No one was surprised when Aaron Crown was arrested for the decades-old murder of the most famous black civil rights leader in Louisiana. After all, his family were shiftless timber people who brought their ways into the Cajun wetlands--trailing rumors of ties to the Ku Klux Klan. Only Dave Robicheaux, to whom Crown proclaims his innocence, worries that Crown had been made a scapegoat for the collective guilt of a generation. <p/>But when Buford LaRose, scion of an old Southern family and author of a book that sent Crown to prison, is elected governor, strange things start to happen. Dave is offered a job as head of the state police; a documentary filmmaker seeking to prove Crown's innocence is killed; and the governor's wife--a former flame--once again turns her seductive powers on Dave. It's clear that Dave must find out the dark truth about Aaron Crown, a truth that too many people want to remain hidden.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Cadillac Jukebox</i> is pure Burke--equal parts hardboiled action, lush descriptions of the natural world, and dialogue that leaps from the page.--<i><b>People Magazine</b></i><br><br>If you haven't read Burke, get going.--<i><b>Playboy</b></i><br><br>Terrific reading. Few writers in America can evoke a region as well as Burke.--<i><b>Philadelphia Inquirer</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>James Lee Burke was born in Houston, Texas, in 1936 and grew up on the Texas-Louisiana gulf coast. He attended Southwestern Louisiana Institute and later received a B. A. Degree in English and an M. A. from the University of Missouri in 1958 and 1960 respectively. Over the years he worked as a landman for Sinclair Oil Company, pipeliner, land surveyor, newspaper reporter, college English professor, social worker on Skid Row in Los Angeles, clerk for the Louisiana Employment Service, and instructor in the U. S. Job Corps. <p/>He and his wife Pearl met in graduate school and have been married 48 years, they have four children: Jim Jr., an assistant U.S. Attorney; Andree, a school psychologist; Pamala, a T. V. ad producer; and Alafair, a law professor and novelist who has 4 novels out with Henry Holt publishing. <p/>Burke's work has been awarded an Edgar twice for Best Crime Novel of the Year. He has also been a recipient of a Breadloaf and Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant. Two of his novels, Heaven's Prisoners and Two For Texas, have been made into motion pictures. His short stories have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, New Stories from the South, Best American Short Stories, Antioch Review, Southern Review, and The Kenyon Review. His novel The Lost Get-Back Boogie was rejected 111 times over a period of nine years, and upon publication by Louisiana State University press was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. <p/>Today he and his wife live in Missoula, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana.
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