When two women are brutally murdered in New Iberia, Louisiana, drug addicted blues singer Tee Bobby Hulin is suspected. But police detective David Robicheaux senses Hulin is innocent, and uncovers secrets reaching back to the days of slavery.

New Iberia, Louisiana, is reeling from a one-two punch of brutal rape-homicides, and drug-addicted blues singer Tee Bobby Hulin has been tagged as the prime suspect. No stranger to bucking popular opinion, police detective Dave Robicheaux senses it's not Hulin behind the atrocities. But while placating a town on fire for swift revenge, Robicheaux must face his own demons — an ultimate reckoning with Legion Guidry, a diabolical figure whose hardcore brand of violence left Robicheaux humiliated and addicted to painkillers. With his longtime friend, the boozing and womanizing Clete Purcel, Robicheaux treads among land mines of injustice, mob payoffs, and deadly secrets, all the while guessing: whom can he trust — and whom should he fear?

James Lee Burke brings back his acclaimed hero Dave Robicheaux in this powerful “New York Times” bestseller packed with suspense and menace.

James Lee Burke, a rare winner of two Edgar Awards, and named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, ?is the author of?thirty previous novels and?two collections of short stories, including such “New York Times” bestsellers as?“The Glass Rainbow”, ?“Swan Peak”, “The Tin Roof Blowdown”, “Last Car to Elysian Fields” and “Rain Gods”.? He lives in Missoula, Montana.