It's also James Lee Burke doing what James Lee Burke does best as he takes you on a Louisiana adventure like no one else can.
Burke's descriptive narrative in "Creole Belle" plops the reader right smack down in the middle of the Louisiana Coast.
His mission is to find Tee Jolie, a barroom singer who has mysteriously disappeared and whose cryptic phone messages to Robicheaux leave Dave's family thinking that he has finally lost it. This time for good.
What develops is a story of secrets, sex, lies and videotape. A trip into Louisiana's history that will find you both intrigued and appalled.
It took me longer than it should have to read this book because I found myself "living an adventure" that I wanted to escape and yet didn't want to end.
As I thought out loud, "this couldn't be happening, could it?" I remembered, it was, after all, Dave Robicheaux.
Another great read.
"Languishing in a recovery unit on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, Dave Robicheaux is fighting an enemy more insidious than the one who put a bullet in his back a month earlier in a shootout on Bayou Teche. The morphine meant to dull his pain is steadily gnawing away at his resolve, playing tricks on his mind, and luring him back into the addict mentality that once threatened to destroy his life and family."
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