In his suspenseful ninth Dave Robicheaux thriller, "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post), the perennial New York Times bestseller and two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke, delivers a nail-biting tale of greed and corruption in the Louisiana bayou.No one was surprised when Aaron Crown was arrested for the decades-old murder of the most famous black civil rights leader in Louisiana. After all, rumors of Ku Klux Klan ties trailed his shiftless family into the Cajun wetlands. Only Dave Robicheaux, "the haunted, all-too-human homicide detective" (The Washington Post Book World) to whom Crown proclaims his innocence, worries Crown is a scapegoat for the collective guilt of a generation. But when the scion of an old Southern family, who played a pivotal role in Crown's arrest, is elected governor, strange things start to happen. Dave is offered a job as head of the state police; a documentary filmmaker seeking to prove Crown's innocence is killed; and the governor's wife--a former flame--once again turns her seductive powers on Dave. It's clear that Dave must find out the dark truth about Aaron Crown, a truth that too many people want to remain hidden.
