Black Cherry Blues

Black Cherry Blues is the third entry in the Dave Robicheaux series, and it remains my favorite of all of James Lee Burke's novels. As the book opens, Robicheaux, a former New Orleans homicide detective, is now running a bait and boat-rental shop in the Louisiana bayou. He's a recovering alcoholic w......more

I don’t profess to be any kind of authority on the written word, but in my (albeit limited) experience, James Lee Burke is as good as it gets. I like crime fiction and more than twenty years ago I read a review of a book I’d enjoyed, in which the journalist stated that good as this book was it wasn’......more

Black Cherry Blues is the third in the Dave Robicheaux series and a familiar pattern starts to emerge of a man shoving his nose where it has no place being, that generally puts both his life and everyone close to him in potential jeopardy. Thankfully Robicheaux doesn't fall of the wagon this time, s......more

The first part of this book almost convinced me to give up on this series. It's pretty depressing and frustrating to see Dave Robicheaux get himself into such apparently hopeless situations. This is also set soon after his wife Annie has been murdered, and Dave sees her in his dreams frequently, as......more

Finally, a modern author who isn't afraid to take his time and use language as it is meant to be used in a novel! Patterson tells a hell of a story...but Burke makes the read wholly worthwhile and rewarding. "I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to......more