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Even when describing the most venal characters and their terrible lives/crimes Jame Lee‘s language soars. I love Robicheaux‘s introspection, and his grasp of worlds unseen. Clete‘s self-abusive life cloaks a sensitivity that is almost too hard to bear. Set amidst the fallout from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the “Bobbsey Twins From Homicide” are up against a cabal of shady characters including an old Nazi. And then there‘s Clete‘s daughter!

Meditations upon mortality become cheap stuff and offer little succor when it comes to dealing with evil. The latter is not an abstraction, and ignoring it is to become its victim. The earth abides forever, but so does the canker inside the rose, and the canker never sleeps.

While I gazed through my window at the wonderful green streetcar wobbling down the tracks on the neutral ground, the river fog puffing out of the live oak trees, the pink and purple neon on the Katz & Besthoff drugstore as effervescent as tentacles of smoke twirling from marker grenades, I knew with a sinking heart that what I was seeing was an illusion...

Mom & I went on a little outing to downtown New Iberia for lunch today. We went to Victor's Cafe "famed" for being Dave Robachieux's "favorite resturant." Ooooh my Gosh, it was So Good. Then we stepped down the street to a tiny bookstore called Books Along the Teche where there was... More Dave Robachieux!