Burning Angel is the eighth mystery novel in the Dave Robicheaux series by author James Lee Burke.
Detective Dave Robicheaux gets entangled in the affairs of the Fontenot family, descendants of sharers whose mother helped raise Dave as a child.
They risk losing the land on which they have lived for more than a century. As Dave tries to figure out who wants the land so badly. He finds himself at increased risk from a fake, murderous alliance of local bandits and a hired hitman with a dark past.
