Cimarron Rose

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland must confront the past in order to save his illegitimate son from a murder conviction in this brilliant, fast-paced thriller from beloved New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.

Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer, former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland, is convinced of Lucas’s innocence—but proving it means unearthing the truth from the seething mass of deceit and corruption that spreads like wildfire in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else’s business.

Billy Bob’s relationship with Lucas’s family is not an easy one. Years back he was a close friend of Mrs. Smothers—too close, according to her husband. But when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighboring cell in the local lock-up, he himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death, and Billy Bob incurs enemies far more dangerous than any he faced as a Ranger.

With the same electric language and hard-edged style that brought James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux novels to the forefront of American crime fiction, Cimarron Rose explodes with a harsh, evocative setting and unforgettable characters.

Best Author

THE best American author. Past and present.

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a good voice

a well conceived plot taken care of and a surprise to two along the way

Great book..not such a great narrator

As always, James Lee Burke does a fine fine job with another Hackberry episode. But the reader read as if every character was a version of Forrest Gump. Has he spent any time speaking to real Texans? Or studied that's very special accent at all? Such a pity.

Well done!

Great story and Tom does the narrative like no other. I have heard him before and he never disappoints. James Lee Burke is a national treasure.

What a character !

One never knows what he is going to get into next. It seems like he can't stand to have a moment's peace.