Robicheaux: A Novel | 
Just about to start this... Anyone read it?
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Just about to start this... Anyone read it?
pickSouthern Louisiana detective with a drinking problem struggles to determine what‘s right while facing down local mobsters, corrupt police, and international crime. Backdrop of civil war history and Hollywood interpretations. I read this as a stand-alone, but I imagine it would be a richer experience to have read others in the series.
pickMy Dad loved Dave Robicheaux. I felt he was reading over my shoulder:the lush descriptions of the Louisiana weather and landscape, how Dave‘s getting older,and mortality is on his mind as he deals with murder and madness. Ghosts haunt his partner Clete. Spot-on focus on how Trumpian politician swamp rise.Sometimes you get the bad guys, sometimes you don‘t. Dave and Clete are tarnished knights who find reasons to go on in little scraps of goodness.
LMAO! Best line so far "I hope both of you get rich twice and go broke three times" LMAO. That is some spiteful shit.
If anyone tells you he‘s from New Orleans and doesn‘t drink, he‘s probably not from New Orleans. Louisiana is not a state; it‘s an outdoor mental asylum in which millions of people stay bombed most of their lives. That‘s not an exaggeration. Cirrhosis is a family heirloom.
pickKept my attention. Well written as usual. Burke brings characters and locations to life. I can smell the rain and the bayou. He left some mysteries unsolved. I always look forward to his next book.
I just want to say James Lee Burke is amazing. Robicheaux is one of his best and he‘s 81.
pickCan‘t go wrong with Robicheaux-Patton combo. Sometimes listening to Patton I just zone out, his voice and cadence are sweet and lyrical and kinda mesmerizing. Then I have to backtrack. But it‘s all good.
The latest by James Lee Burke always gets priority. The moodiness, the descriptions of Louisiana, and the overall “noir-ness” appeal.
Absolutely loved this book, I can‘t stop thinking about it. Mr. Burke is a true master his craft!
