Creole Belle

By James Lee Burke

Book Overview

"America's best novelist" James Lee Burke returns with another New York Times bestselling entry in the Dave Robicheaux thriller series (The Denver Post).

Set against the events of the Gulf Coast oil spill, rife with "the menaces of greed and violence and man-made horror" (The Christian Science Monitor), Creole Belle finds Dave Robicheaux languishing in a New Orleans recovery unit since surviving a bayou shoot-out. The detective's body is healing; it's his morphine-addled mind that conjures spectral visions of Tee Jolie Melton, a young woman who in reality has gone missing. An iPod with an old blues song left by his bedside turns Robicheaux into a man obsessed...And as oil companies assign blame after an epic disaster threatens the Gulf's very existence, Robicheaux unearths connections between tragedies both global and personal--and faces down forces that can corrupt and destroy the best of men.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451648146
• ISBN13: 9781451648140
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 594 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.2" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

It just keeps getting better!

The nineteenth book in the Robicheaux series and probably the best (I’ve read them all). Burke creates a story that shows the drive a man has for his family and friends. Keeps you reading and turning the pages.

Rough and Raw

I found the language and action in this book terribly offensive. I'm not a prude, but I don't wan to listen to overtly crude language and an equally crude plot.