James Lee Burke – Creole Belle is the New York Times bestselling author’s 19th novel in the Dave Robicheaux series.
The publication date of this story was July 17, 2012.
Creole Belle book description
Set against the events of the Gulf Coast oil spill, 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.