Creole Belle

Author: James Lee Burke

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  • : $29.99 AUD
  • : 9781409108979
  • : Orion Publishing Co
  • : Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
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  • : February 2012
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 29.99
  • : July 2012
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  • : James Lee Burke
  • : Detective Dave Robicheaux
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Barcode 9781409108979
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Description

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.

Author description

James Lee Burke is the author of many previous novels, many featuring Detective Dave Robicheaux. He won the EDGAR AWARD in 1998 for Cimarron Rose, while Black Cherry Blues won the EDGAR in 1990 and SUNSET LIMITED was awarded the CWA GOLD DAGGER in 1998. He lives with his wife, Pearl, in Missoula, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana.