{"product_id":"purple-cane-road-9780440224044","title":"Purple Cane Road","description":"Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass onto the son. But what has his mother's legacy left him? Dead to him since youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Dave's mind. He's lived with the fact that he would never really know what happened to the woman who left him to the devices of his whiskey-driven father. But deep down, he still feels the loss of his mother and knows the infinite series of disappointments in her life could not have come to a good end. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e While helping out an old friend, Dave is stunned when a pimp looks at him sideways and asks him if he is Mae Guillory's boy, the whore a bunch of cops murdered 30 years ago. The pimp goes on to insinuate that the cops who dumped her body in the bayou were on the take and continue to thrive in the New Orleans area. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dave's search for his mother's killers leads him to the darker places in his past and solving this case teaches him what it means to be his mother's son. \u003ci\u003ePurple Cane Road\u003c\/i\u003e has the dimensions of a classic-passion, murder, and nearly heartbreaking poignancy-wrapped in a wonderfully executed plot that surprises from start to finish.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Lee Burke is the author of nineteen books, including the bestsellers \u003cb\u003eHeartwood\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eSunset Limited\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eCimarron Rose\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eCadillac Jukebox\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eBurning Angel\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eDixie City Jam\u003c\/b\u003e. He lives with his wife in Missoula, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900634861842,"sku":"9780440224044","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9e68ee66-2b56-489f-a606-1be056658a0c.jpg?v=1738390052","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/purple-cane-road-9780440224044","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}