Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: James Lee Burke
• Title: Cimarron Rose ( A Holland Family Novel)
• Publisher: ‎ Orion Books, Ltd.
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback – ‎312 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0752816101
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0752816104
• Item Weight: ‎ .75 lbs.
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.04 x 1.02 x 7.72 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Good

Synopsis:

Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland must confront the past in order to save his illegitimate son from a murder conviction in this brilliant, fast-paced thriller from beloved New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.

Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer, former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland, is convinced of Lucas’s innocence—but proving it means unearthing the truth from the seething mass of deceit and corruption that spreads like wildfire in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else’s business.

Billy Bob’s relationship with Lucas’s family is not an easy one. Years back he was a close friend of Mrs. Smothers—too close, according to her husband. But when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighboring cell in the local lock-up, he himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death, and Billy Bob incurs enemies far more dangerous than any he faced as a Ranger.

With the same electric language and hard-edged style that brought James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux novels to the forefront of American crime fiction, Cimarron Rose explodes with a harsh, evocative setting and unforgettable characters.

About the Author:

James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, one for Black Cherry Blues in 1989, and Cimarron Rose, Burke's first novel featuring Billy Bob Holland, won the 1997 Edgar Award. In 1998 Sunset Limited won the CWA Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction. Burke was also the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction.

He’s authored thirty-seven novels and two short story collections, including seventeen featuring Detective Dave Robicheaux. The Lost Get Back Boogie was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; Black Cherry Blues He lives with his wife, Pearl in Missoula, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana.

Visit his websites at www.jamesleeburke.com and jamesleeburkebooks.com.