Dave Robicheaux is back, in a gorgeously written, visceral thriller by
James Lee Burke, “the heavy weight champ, a great American novelist
whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed” (Michael
Connelly). Creole Belle begins where the last book in the Dave
Robicheaux series, The Glass Rainbow, ended. Dave is in a recovery unit
in New Orleans, where a Creole girl named Tee Jolie Melton visits him
and leaves him an iPod with the country blues song “Creole Belle” on it.
Then she disappears. Dave becomes obsessed with the song and the memory
of Tee Jolie and goes in search of her sister, who later turns up
inside a block of ice floating in the Gulf. Meanwhile, there has been an
oil well blowout on the Gulf, threatening the cherished environs of the
bayous. Creole Belle is James Lee Burke at his very best, with beloved
series hero Dave Robicheaux leading the charge against the destruction
of both the land and the people he has sworn to protect.
Unabridged.
Read by Will Patton.
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