A Private Cathedral
by James Lee Burke
A Private Cathedral is book 23 in James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux series, a police detective in New Iberia, Louisiana (a small town west of New Orleans)
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“quite late on in the series, we get to a book called A Private Cathedral, where James Lee Burke has clearly just said, ‘I’m going all in.’ Dave Robicheaux is hunted by an immortal assassin from hell, and the showdown is on a steamboat in the River Styx. It shouldn’t work. It should be ridiculous, because these are detective books. But you never question it. It’s just so well done: he creates this area of the Deep South where it does seem like the impossible isn’t really shocking, and that the magical is always there, even though you might not ever mention it. When he goes full in on it, you just think, ‘Yes, I’m here for that.'” Read more...
