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Burke, James Lee, 1936-

A private cathedral / James Lee Burke. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - New York : Simon and Schuster, 2020. - 370 pages ; 25 cm. - Dave Robicheaux 23 . - A Dave novel ; [23] . - Burke, James Lee, 1936- Dave Robicheaux novel ; 23. .

"On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenaged Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooming young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny and Isolde are in love. And like Romeo and Juliet, Johnny and Isolde are being kept apart by their families. In fact, Isolde tells Robicheaux, her parents have given her to the Shondell patriarch to be used as a sex slave. Seeking to uncover why, Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde's mother and her father's mistress. As retribution, the elder Balangie orders a mysterious assassin to go after Robicheaux and his longtime partner, Clete Purcell. Yet this is unlike any hitman Robicheaux has ever faced: he has the ability induce hallucinations and might be a time-traveling reptilian."--

ISBN: 9781982151683 1982151684

LCCN: 2019058582

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Robicheaux, Dave (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Police--Louisiana--New Orleans--Fiction.
Time travel--Fiction.
Assassins--Fiction.
Vendetta--Fiction.
Mafia--Fiction.
Organized crime--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New Iberia (La.)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Thrillers (Fiction).
Detective and mystery fiction.
Mystery fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3552.U723 / P75 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54