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Creole belle : a Dave Robicheaux novel / James Lee Burke.
When last seen in The Glass Rainbow, the previous book in the Dave Robicheaux series, Robicheaux was recovering in a New Orleans hospital from a near-fatal bullet wound. Immobilized and heavily medicated by morphine, he was visited there by a beautiful Creole woman named Tee Jolie Melton. After she's gone, his fond, hazy remembrances of her are rekindled by one song, "Creole Belle" on the iPod that she left behind. Now obsessed by the song and thoughts of her, he goes in search of her. He finds instead the frozen corpse of her sister floating at sea. As he grapples with that mystery, an oil rig explodes on the Gulf threatening the cherished environs of the bayous. Robicheaux then swings into action, leading the charge against the destruction of both the land and the people he has sworn to protect.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781451648133
- ISBN: 1451648138
- Physical Description: 528 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.
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| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |
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- 60 of 63 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Montgomery City Public.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Montgomery City Public Library | F BUR (Text) | 31927000004621 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Creole Belle
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Summary
Creole Belle
"America's best novelist" James Lee Burke returns with another New York Times bestselling entry in the Dave Robicheaux thriller series ( The Denver Post ). Set against the events of the Gulf Coast oil spill, rife with "the menaces of greed and violence and man-made horror" ( The Christian Science Monitor ), 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.
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