Description: Since his youth, New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux has regulated his missing mother, Mae Guillory, to the deepest recesses of his memory. Dave is then asked by a pimp if he's Mae Guillory's son, who tells him she was murdered by cops 35 years before. Now Dave crosses lines of colors and class, going to any length to bring her killers to justice.
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