Creole Belle, James Lee Burke
Creole Belle, James Lee Burke
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Creole Belle
A Dave Robicheaux Novel

Author: James Lee Burke

Narrator: Will Patton

Unabridged: 18 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/17/2012


Synopsis

Dave Robicheaux investigates the disappearance of a young Creole woman, while an oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico threatens to destroy the cherished beauty of the Louisiana bayous in this gripping thriller.

Set against the events of the Gulf Coast oil spill, rife with “the menaces of greed and violence and man-made horror” (The Christian Science Monitor), Creole Belle finds Dave Robicheaux languishing in a New Orleans recovery unit since surviving a bayou shoot-out. The detective’s body is healing; it’s his morphine-addled mind that conjures spectral visions of Tee Jolie Melton, a young woman who in reality has gone missing. An iPod with an old blues song left by his bedside turns Robicheaux into a man obsessed… And as oil companies assign blame after an epic disaster threatens the Gulf’s very existence, Robicheaux unearths connections between tragedies both global and personal—and faces down forces that can corrupt and destroy the best of men.

“A work of dark and radiant brilliance” (Richmond Times-Dispatch), Creole Belle is “a novel that shows how the sins of the fathers poison the ground their children walk on” (The New York Times Book Review).

About James Lee Burke

American mystery author, James Lee Burke, was born in Houston, Texas, explaining why most of the lead characters in his novels are Texan. He has won two Edgar awards, which is a very rare experience, and is a bestselling author of two short story collections and over thirty novels. Burke is best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. His Edgar Awards were for Black Cherry and Cimarron Rose. Two of his series were made into screen plays with each movie having a-list actors playing the Robicheaux character (Alec Baldwin - Heaven's Prisoners, and Tommy Lee Jones- In the Electric Mist).

A writer must usually hold down other employment while they attempt to gain a degree of following readers. Burke's various jobs included.......truck driver, newspaper reporter, social worker, land surveyor, unemployment system employee, Job Corps worker, teacher, and finally, novelist.

Burke lives in Montana with his wife, Pearl, two daughters, and four grandchildren. His favorite advice was given by Irving Stone, when Burke was nineteen.......... "Never write a story to pay your gas bill......if you do, be assured your utilities will be turned off".


Reviews

Goodreads review by John on April 23, 2014

Occasionally I’ll meet would-be-writers (and, indeed, published writers) who try to avoid reading anything remotely resembling their own work while writing. I suppose they worry that they might be overly influenced by the style of the writer whom they’re reading, and I accept that this can be a real......more

Goodreads review by Sue on October 31, 2012

Burke's Robicheaux novels are known for their exploration of the nature of man, good vs evil, suffering, penance and forgiveness, big themes relevant to all life. The fact that the novels are set in New Orleans, with all that city's long and storied and messy history, accentuates the stories. The ci......more

Goodreads review by Aditya on November 10, 2020

The series is infamous for its repetitive plots. The books don't merely share outlines, they share situations, character archetypes and major plot details. I still swear by it because of the silky smooth prose. However the well oiled machine has started to groan, this was the first time I thought of......more

Goodreads review by James on August 01, 2012

James Lee Burke's sixteenth Dave Robicheaux novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, took place in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Dave's beloved southern Louisiana had been devastated by the storm and the recovery had been badly bungled by inept government officials, some of whom cared very little about t......more

Goodreads review by Lou on March 15, 2013

Read my Interview with the author James Lee Burke @[URL not allowed]-with-james-lee-burke/ Darn it! I have been singing 'My Creole Belle!' lyrics since I set my eyes on this one hell of a humdinger tale set before you by James Lee Burke. The Bobbsey Twins are back and they do not d......more