The Bayou Trilogy, (Paperback)

from KLmesoftly

I couldn't finish this. It's crime fiction that, excepting the setting, winds up being fairly generic - and worse, full of clumsy overwrought metaphors and the tendency to spend paragraphs lovingly-describing in excruciating detail every female character introduced. There wasn't anything here exe...

from MissReadsTooMuch

If you pick up The Bayou Trilogy, by Daniel Woodrall, with expectations you have gotten a James Lee Burke style mystery, you are going to be disappointed. This trilogy is a series of very well written novellas that focus on characters living in a small town in Louisiana - some of the characters a...

from ssimon2000

Overall, 3 stars. This was an interesting study in the life of the Bayou, focused on Officer Rene Shade and his friends and family. The first two books were pretty good, with Officer Shade solving a couple of crimes. With the third book, the author completely lost any semblance of a plot and it t...

from asxz

Two fairly straightforward crime novellas with an interesting milieu and some snappy dialog and then a third which builds on the back story alluded to previously to deliver an unexpectedly emotional story about regret, loss, parenting and just plain getting old. Really fascinating reading all thr...

from tloeffler

This book is actually a reprint of 3 short stories written by Daniel Woodrell in 1986, 1988, and 1992. The stories involve Rene Shade, a policeman in St. Bruno parish in Louisiana. This is not a place you want to be found after dark. And it's always dark in a Woodrell story. The first two stories...