Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “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.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “All the characters…are superbly drawn, and the plot is heart-pounding…Sure to be embraced by author James Lee Burke’s fans.”

  — Washington Post

• “Gripping.”

  — People

• “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

• “Burke weaves a rich example of his trademark bayou noir. Filled with cruelty and valor, greed and sacrifice, and surprises of the worst and best kind, Creole Belle is a dark but irresistible cruise.”

  — Tampa Bay Times

• “Another stunner from a modern master.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “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)

• “As a crime novel, Creole Belle delivers everything fans of the genre crave, and more: a masterful tale of good, evil, organized crime, and the corporate-led destruction of the once-idyllic land of the Gulf Coast…[Burke] uses the modern crime novel the way a master chef uses local, organic foods to create a gastronomic feast—in this case, a classical tragedy with all the fixin’s.”

  — ShelfAwareness.com

• “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; 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