Creole Belle (Dave Robicheaux)

Burke, James Lee

ISBN 10: 1442349026 ISBN 13: 9781442349025

Verlag: SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2012

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"This tale plays out much like "The Glass Rainbow--"intimations of mortality; melancholic musing on the pillaging of once-Edenic South Louisiana; cathartic, guns-blazing climax--but, as always, Burke brings something new to the table . . . Dave and Clete may still be unbowed, but they are certainly broken--and all the more interesting for it."--"Booklist" (starred review)

"Another stunner from a modern master."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)

"Great news for readers who feared that Burke had left Iberia Parish Sheriff's Deputy Dave Robicheaux dying at the end of "The Glass Rainbow" (2010); Dave and his old friend Clete Purcel are back for an even more heaven-storming round of homicide, New Orleans-style. . . . A darkly magnificent treat for Dave's legion of admirers."--"Kirkus Reviews"

"Gripping."--"People" Magazine

"I think [James Lee] Burke is the best fiction writer in the country."--Bill O'Reilly

"Burke is the reigning champ of nostalgia noir. . . . To be sure, the destruction of a pristine natural environment is a thematic staple of the regional crime novel, but nobody can touch Burke in the lyrical expression of howling grief. . . . ["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"

"Like its 18 predecessors in Burke's series, "Creole Belle" is a work of dark and radiant brilliance."--"Richmond Times-Dispatch"""

"The plot is fast-moving and thriller-tough, the bodies mount quickly, and the writing is lyrical and evocative . . . as laced with complications as the canals crosscutting Robicheaux's beloved, threatened wetlands."--"New Orleans Times-Picayune"

"All the characters . . . are superbly drawn, and the plot is heart-pounding . . . sure to be embraced by author James Lee Burke's fans."--"The Washington Post"

"Reading James Lee Burke is a religious experience. ..."Creole Belle" may be one of Burke's best; it is certainly one of his most complex. . . . Intense doesn't begin to describe a Burke story . . . Biblical . . . now that about does it."--"San Antonio Express"

Reseña del editor

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.

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• Verlag: SIMON & SCHUSTER
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1442349026
• ISBN 13: 9781442349025
• Einband: CD de audio