By James Lee Burke
Whilst a guy imprisoned for killing a black civil rights chief protests his innocence ahead of Dave Robicheaux, the Louisiana detective unearths himself stressed through the state's new governor and his seductive spouse to stick clear of the case. Reprint."
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He wore a dark blue suit, red tie, white shirt, and tinted glasses that made it hard to read his eyes. Probably on purpose. He had short hair, big hands, and no expression at all. Buckethead came in with a cork restaurant tray on which was a pitcher of water, two glasses, two napkins, and a dish of cookies. It was the cookies that weirded me out. You generally don’t get cookies in situations like this and it had to be some kind of mind trick. When Buckethead left, the guy in the suit said, “My name is Mr.
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