The origin of this new crusade, revelations on the plausible murder of a young prostitute Ida Durbin Dave Robicheaux and his brother had met in 1958. While Jimmie thought Robicheaux get away with it, this one had mysteriously disappeared . But the investigation of New Iberia detective will quickly encounter the hostility many people anxious not to see up the past ... Corrupt police and aggressive but also the wealthy family Chalons, to acquaintances mafia, whose son Valentine's eldest star journalist of a local chain. The EMBLEM CROSS takes the reader, in the dampness of Bayou Teche, in the wake of Dave Robicheaux who must overcome his usual excesses of violence, its terrible penchant for alcohol, his incorrigible nostalgic and odious calumnies of his opponents . But who succumb finally to the charms of a religious ... James LEE BURKE write perhaps always the same book ... of course ... but it always does as well!