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The Bayou Trilogy

Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do

1-3 in series

by Daniel Woodrell
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A hard-hitting, critically acclaimed trilogy of crime novels from an author about whom New York magazine has written, "What people say about Cormac McCarthy . . . goes double for [Woodrell]. Possibly more."
In the parish of St. Bruno, sex is easy, corruption festers, and double-dealing is a way of life. Rene Shade is an uncompromising detective swimming in a sea of filth.
As Shade takes on hit men, porn kings, a gang of ex-cons, and the ghosts of his own checkered past, Woodrell's three seminal novels pit long-entrenched criminals against the hard line of the law, brother against brother, and two vastly different sons against a long-absent father.
The Bayou Trilogy highlights the origins of a one-of-a-kind author, a writer who for over two decades has created an indelible representation of the shadows of the rural American experience and has steadily built a devoted following among crime fiction aficionados and esteemed literary critics alike.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Rene Shade

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    April 28, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780316190558

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780316190558
      • File size: 1967 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from February 28, 2011
      Collected in a single volume for the first time, Woodrell's three stellar novels featuring Det. Rene Shade, an ex-boxer turned cop, provide entrée into the Louisiana swamp town of Saint Bruno, a place where "tempers went on the prowl and relief was driving a hard bargain." Woodrell (Winter's Bone) injects Shade's life and various cases with both humor and brutal violence. In Bright Lights (1986), the investigation into a city councilman's murder mushrooms into a corruption scandal, with Shade feeling pressure from above for a quick—and predetermined—result. Muscle for the Wing (1988) finds Shade up against a gang of ex-cons, hell-bent on wrestling control of Saint Bruno's less-than-legal action. Shade and his two brothers—bar owner Tip and district attorney Francois—are reunited with their long-absent paterfamilias, John X., in The Ones You Do (1992), in which John X. returns to Saint Bruno with a 10-year-old daughter and a killer on his trail. There's poetry in Woodrell's mayhem, each novel—and scene—full of gritty and memorable Cajun details.

    • Library Journal

      November 15, 2010

      Combining three earlier works (Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do), all set in the lowdown parish of St. Bruno, this paperback should prove to readers of crime fiction everywhere that the author of Winter's Bone is a sharp and wondrous writer. From Mulholland, a new thriller imprint.

      Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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