Creole Belle - (Dave Robicheaux) by James Lee Burke (Paperback)

Dave Robicheaux is back in another gripping novel by James Lee Burke, "Creole Belle".

This latest installment in the series delivers everything fans of crime fiction crave - a masterful tale of good and evil, organized crime, and corporate-led destruction of the once-idyllic land of the Gulf Coast.

With Burke's signature lyrical writing style, he weaves a rich example of his trademark bayou noir, filled with cruelty and valor, greed and sacrifice, and surprises of the worst and best kind.

The plot is heart-pounding and cathartic, guns-blazing climax - but as always, Burke brings something new to the table.

Will Dave and Clete may still be unbowed, but they are certainly broken - and all the more interesting for it.

This is a wild ride of a novel, but the true joys of Burke's novels are the exquisitely fine writing and his character s familiarity with great thinkers and theologians.

The Christian Science Monitor (The Glass Rainbow), Creole Belle finds Dave Robicheaux recovering in New Orleans recovery unit before he can skip paying Delta for that flight to the Big Edenic tragedy with all the fixin's.

ShelfAwareness.com"Burke never goes wrong with his exquisitely fine writing and his character s familiarity with great thinkers with the true joys of Burke sinsight.

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