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James Lee Burke

The New York Times

Artikler om James Lee Burke fra nytimes.com. Senest opdateret 16. oktober 2011

  • CRIME; Blood in the Sand

    James Lee Burke presses onward with his singular mission to rewrite the American western in FEAST DAY OF FOOLS (Simon & Schuster, $26.99). The southwest Texas landscape is familiar genre territory, and the stand-up protagonist, Sheriff Hackberry Holland, is the latest in a long line of principled lawmen. But the good guys don't ride horses anymore,...

  • CRIME; The Old Neighborhood

    Tana French's mysteries are like big old trees: the deeper their roots, the more luxurious the foliage they wave in your face. Like her two previous mysteries, both set in Dublin, FAITHFUL PLACE (Viking, $25.95) is sunk in local history, drawing on a tangle of family ties and generational feuds for its thick plot about the impact on a...

  • CRIME; Death in the Dust Bowl

    If James Lee Burke has the deepest regional voice in the genre -- and I do believe that's so -- it's because he understands those feelings that keep people connected to the places where they have, or once had, roots. When Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans, it swept all kinds of people, criminals among them, out of their natural element...