Cimarron Rose (A Holland Family Novel)
Cimarron Rose (A Holland Family Novel) book cover

Cimarron Rose (A Holland Family Novel)

Mass Market Paperback – September 30, 2014

Price
$25.47
Publisher
Pocket Books
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1476782560
Dimensions
4.13 x 0.9 x 7.5 inches
Weight
8.8 ounces

Description

About the Author James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Cimarron Rose

Features & Highlights

  • Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland must confront the past in order to save his illegitimate son from a murder conviction in this brilliant, fast-paced thriller from beloved
  • New York Times
  • bestselling author James Lee Burke.
  • Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer, former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland, is convinced of Lucas’s innocence—but proving it means unearthing the truth from the seething mass of deceit and corruption that spreads like wildfire in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else’s business. Billy Bob’s relationship with Lucas’s family is not an easy one. Years back he was a close friend of Mrs. Smothers—too close, according to her husband. But when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighboring cell in the local lock-up, he himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death, and Billy Bob incurs enemies far more dangerous than any he faced as a Ranger. With the same electric language and hard-edged style that brought James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux novels to the forefront of American crime fiction,
  • Cimarron Rose
  • explodes with a harsh, evocative setting and unforgettable characters.

Customer Reviews

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Obviously not written by a woman

Didn't care for it. Gave it away.
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Quite good

Very well written. I feel like I lived that story after reading it, even if it was tough. He reminds me of Cormac Mcarthy. After he sucks you in you can’t let go.
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Great plot, riveting story line

Great characterizations as usual. No one does it as well. JLB could have been a great poet, but luckily for his fans he chose prose. Somehow this book slipped under my radar, but now I've read all 37. I hope he has a few more stories in him.
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A winner

A great writer!
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Five Stars

Love Burke's excellent writing and the books pull you in from start to finish.
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Best author ever!

Best author ever!! Wish it had been hardcover, but...great story.
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Four Stars

Interesting.
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Five Stars

great book love his writting
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Five Stars

Really a change from Burke's detective stories.
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