"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 Scienc
Creole Belle
✍ Scribed by Burke, James Lee
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Inc.
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 499 KB
- Edition
- 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1451648146
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
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 aCreole 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.
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