Burke, James Lee

After a violent encounter leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland escapes the country with the legendary Holy Grail. He then embarks on a quest to reconcile with his estranged son Ishmael and return the Grail to its rightful place. In the meantime, however, a bloodthirsty arms dealer places Holland's son squarely in the middle of a dangerous plot to recapture the sacred artifact.

A rash of murders has unemployed sleuth Dave Robicheaux rejoining the New Orleans sheriff's department where he searches for a serial killer while investigating a clue to the disappearance of a young prostitute years earlier, trying to stay clear of the mob, and becoming romantically involved with an unconventional nun.

Son Holland and Hugh Allison have only one thing in common - they escaped from prison together.

A classic tale of a man haunted by memories of the Korean War, the ancestors he was named after, and the man he used to be.

Starting a new life as the sheriff of a dried-out, broken-down border town in south Texas, Hackberry Holland is drawn into a murder investigation when nine dead prostitutes are dug up in the desert, forcing him to focus on something other than his own demons.

Detective Dave Robicheaux is facing the most painful and dangerous case of his career. A troubled young woman breezes into his hometown of New Iberia, Louisiana. She happens to be the daughter of Robicheaux's onetime best friend--a friend he witnessed gunned down in a bank robbery, a tragedy that forever changed Robicheaux's life. The twists begin when Trish Klein--the only offspring of Robicheaux's Vietnam-era buddy--starts passing marked hundred-dollar bills in local casinos. Is she a good kid gone bad? A victim's child seeking revenge? A promiscuous beauty seducing everyone good within her grasp? And how does her behavior relate to the apparent suicide of another "good" girl, an ace student named Yvonne Darbonne, who apparently participated in a college frat orgy before her death?--From publisher description.

Attorney and former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland becomes entangled in a web of sex, drugs, and murder when he agrees to defend his unacknowledged son Lucas Smothers against trumped-up charges of manslaughter and rape.