Purple Cane Road

  • Author: James Lee Burke
  • Narrator: Nick Sullivan
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 10:23:25
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Synopsis

Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass on to the son. But what was his mother's legacy? Dead to him since his youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Robicheaux'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 a whiskey-driven father. But deep down, Dave still feels the loss of his mother and knows that 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 if he is the son of Mae Guillory, the whore a bunch of cops murdered thirty years ago. Her body was dumped in the bayou bordering Purple Cane Road, and the cops who left her there are still on the job.

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.

Chapters

  • PurpleCaneRoad 01 Chapter1

    Duration: 14min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 02 Chapter2

    Duration: 17min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 03 Chapter3

    Duration: 23min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 04 Chapter4

    Duration: 23min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 05 Chapter5

    Duration: 09min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 06 Chapter6

    Duration: 18min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 07 Chapter7

    Duration: 16min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 08 Chapter8

    Duration: 25min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 09 Chapter9

    Duration: 18min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 10 Chapter10

    Duration: 20min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 11 Chapter11

    Duration: 16min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 12 Chapter12

    Duration: 17min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 13 Chapter13

    Duration: 18min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 14 Chapter14

    Duration: 26min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 15 Chapter15a

    Duration: 16min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 16 Chapter15b

    Duration: 16min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 17 Chapter16

    Duration: 13min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 18 Chapter17

    Duration: 15min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 19 Chapter18

    Duration: 18min
  • PurpleCaneRoad 20 Chapter19

    Duration: 17min
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