1987 - Introducing the New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux, this novel begins with the murder of a prostitute, which no one wants him to investigate. Involvement with a drug dealing Mafia

1990 - Personal tragedy has left Dave Robicheaux close to the edge. Battling against his old addiction to alcohol and haunted nightly by vivid dreams and visitations, Dave finds tranquility at home

1993 - Overshadowing the manoeuvres of Gouza's gang is the spectre of racial politics and it is former Klansman Bobby Earl who will prove to be Dave Robicheaux's most elusive enemy

1994 - A local businessman is offering Detective Dave Robicheaux big money to bring the wreck to the surface, but he is not the only one after the submarine and its mysterious cargo

1996 - The call from ex-Klansman Aaron Crown was unexpected. Sentenced to 40 years for the decades-old shooting of a civil rights activist, Crown should have been out of Iberia Parish for good

2000 - Robicheaux is here plunged into his most painful and personal odyssey yet. He learns that his mother, Mae, was a prostitute who ended up drowned in a mud puddle by cops in the pay of the Mob

2003 - Find the links between an IRA hit man with a conscience, a long-dead blues singer, a priest crusading against illegal dumping and yet another of Dave's disturbed upper-crust exes

2006 - Dave’s friend, a gambling addict, had died in an armed robbery that he had been forced into. After many years, events in Dave's life have brought him close the individuals responsible

2008 - 'powerful short stories, quietly and passionately told' (Matthew Lewin THE GUARDIAN )