"I've read all the Robicheaux novels, one of the finest series in American fiction; and after staying up half the night to finish Purple Cane Road, I'd say it's the best one yet."
--John Sandford

"Like Southern cooking, James Lee Burke's writing is unique, abundantly rich, and deeply satisfying. Indulge yourself."
--Sandra Brown, bestselling author of Fat Tuesday, The Alibi, and Unspeakable

"James Lee Burke gives us more irrefutable evidence that he is on a career-long winning streak. I envy his ability to make the world's hardest job seem so easy and so natural. In Purple Cane Road, he touches our hopes, grief, longing, and humor with characters that are perfectly drawn. My husband and I will always be loyal readers."
--Kaye Gibbons, author of A Virtuous Woman and Ellen Foster

"Purple Cane Road had all the unique atmosphere that we have come to expect from James Lee Burke, but with a new edge of very personal passion which lifts it above even his previous novels."
--Anne Perry, author of The Twisted Root and Bedford Square

"Purple Cane Road is a beautifully written, psychologically complex, stunningly atmospheric page-turner. James Lee Burke is the Faulkner of crime fiction."
--Jonathan Kellerman, author of Monster and Billy Straight

"No other living writer has been more influential on the contemporary crime novel than James Lee Burke. Using a painter's careful brush strokes of character and place, he has turned the form into a literary exploration of the moral ambiguities that lie in the darkness of our souls. His work has set the watermark so high that I don't think anybody else will ever reach it. With Purple Cane Road he has gone and moved it up yet one more notch. This one is his best."
--Michael Connelly, author of Blood Work, Angels Flight, and the forthcoming Void Moon

"James Lee Burke has written a novel forged from the very soul of the Louisiana swamp and its diverse peoples. Longing and bitterness, passion and hopelessness, redemption and sin-it's all here, ringing with the sweet fierceness of truth. Purple Cane Road, without a doubt, is James Lee Burke's finest novel yet."
--Connie May Fowler, author of Remembering Blue