Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age old adage that the sins of the father pass onto the son But what has his mother s legacy left him Dead to him since youth Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Dave s mind He s lived with the fact that he would never really know what happened to the woman who left him to the devices of his whiskey driven father But deep down he still feels the loss of his mother and knows the infinite series of disappointments in her life could not have come to a good end While helping out an old friend Dave is stunned when a pimp looks at him sideways and asks him if he is Mae Guillory s boy the whore a bunch of cops murdered 30 years ago The pimp goes on to insinuate that the cops who dumped her body in the bayou were on the take and continue to thrive in the New Orleans area Dave s search for his mother s killers leads him to the darker places in his past and solving this case teaches him what it means to be his mother s son Purple Cane Road has the dimensions of a classic passion murder and nearly heartbreaking poignancy wrapped in a wonderfully executed plot that surprises from start to finish From Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke comes this emotional powerhouse of a novel in which everyman hero Dave Robicheaux confronts the secrets of his long forgotten past in a shattering tale of revenge murder and a mother s haunting legacy Robicheaux first hears it from a pimp eager to trade information for his life Mae Guillory was murdered outside a New Orleans nightclub by two cops Dave Robicheaux was just a boy when his mother ran out on him and his whiskey driven father Now Robicheaux is a man still haunted by her desertion and her death More than thirty five years after Mae Guillory died her son will go to any length to bring her killers to justice And as he moves closer to what happened that long ago night the Louisiana cop crosses lines of color and class to find the p - from Amzon