A suspenseful story. Keep you rivetted.
Sometimes the grief & guilt sweep over Robicheaux the way a hot rainstorm will exhale across the Louisiana bayou. Long after he washed the bloodstains off the walls in Annie's bedroom, he could still see them there, still picture her impotent, soundless terror in the dead of night when they took her away from him forever.
If it hadn't been for his little girl, Alafair Robicheaux knew he would have slipped back into the bittersweet relationship every alcoholic shares with the bottle. He couldn't do that now. Too much at stake. So he moved, minute-by-minute through each day, easing himself back into the here-and-now with sult ry afternoons at the pier, his memories hanging dark and languid in his mind, like the Spanish moss on the trees in his front yard.
But when an old friend turns up on his doorstep one morning. Robicheaux is plunged against his will into a world of professional killers and violent retributions from the past.
