num_pages: 400
description: Personal tragedy has left Dave Robicheaux close to the edge. Battling against his old addiction to alcohol and haunted nightly by vivid dreams and visitations, Dave finds his only tranquillity at home with his young ward Alafair. But even this fragile peace is shattered by the arrival of Dixie Lee Pugh who brings with him a brutal trail of murder and violence. Robicheaux reluctantly agrees to help out his old friend but becomes more involved than he bargained for when he finds himself suspect Number One in the series of bloody killings. Forced to leave his home, Robicheaux's precarious existence reaches breaking point when Alafair's life is threatened.
language: English
title: Black Cherry Blues
titlecomplete: Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)
characters: Sally Dio, Clete Purcel, Dave Robicheaux, Dixie Lee Pugh
genres: Hard Boiled, Noir, Mystery, Southern, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 15566
places: Missoula, Montana
series: Dave Robicheaux
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
category: Romans étrangers, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Orion Paperbacks