Cadillac jukebox. James Lee Burke. 1996.

When former Klansman and piney-woods outcast Aaron Crown is imprisoned for a decades old murder, his former friend Dave Robicheaux finds himself believing in Crown’s innocence. Then a Hollywood filmmaker who has taken up Crown’s case is found murdered, and the most villainous character Burke has created to date, Moodie Zerrang, brings his bloody agenda to the Cajun wetlands of South Louisiana.

But it is when Buford La Rose, Scion of an old white Southern family and author of the book that helped convict Crown, runs for election as State governor that Robicheaux’s involvement with Aaron Crown deepens to a level he can barely fathom. And it is Buford’s social-climbing wife, Karyn, with whom Robicheaux had had an affair years before, who proves to be his most poisonous adversary…….