Billy Bob Holland novels
Author
Author
Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
James Lee Burke, best-selling author of the Louisiana-based Dave Robicheaux crime fiction series, now begins a new series with a new landscape. In Cimarron Rose, Burke brings his talent for lyrical writing and hard-edged suspense to the American West. Billy Bob Holland is a lawyer for the people of sunbaked Deaf Smith, in southern Texas. Although occasionally he is haunted by memories of a violent past, his life is serene-until a local guitarist,...
2) Heartwood
Author
Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Few writers in America today combine James Lee Burke's lush prose, cracking story lines, and tremendous sense of history and landscape. In Cimarron Rose, longtime fans of the Dave Robicheaux series found that the struggles of Texas defense attorney Billy Bob Holland show Burke at his best in exploring classic American themes -- the sometimes subtle, often violent strains between the haves and the have-nots; the collision of past and present; the inequities...
3) Bitterroot
Author
Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Formats
Description
Billy Bob Holland, an enigmatic former Texas Ranger turned lawyer, is on vacation in Montana. Billy Bob is faced with an enemy from his past, Wyatt Dixon, who has sworn to kill him.
Author
Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In James Lee Burke's last novel featuring Billy Bob Holland, Bitterroot, the former Texas Ranger left his home state to help a friend threatened by the most dangerous sociopath Billy Bob had ever faced. After vanquishing a truly iniquitous collection of violent individuals, Billy moved his family to west Montana and hung out a shingle for his law practice. But in In the Moon of Red Ponies, he discovers that jail cells have revolving doors and that...