Topic: Dave Robicheaux

The overwhelmingly melancholy tone of James Lee Burke's latest novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, seems especially apt given both its subject matter, the destruction of New Orleans , and the late middle age of his protagonist, Dave Robicheaux. Set in the aftermath ...

Mist Opportunity

It had the makings of a tense, knotty neo-noir, a kind of gumbo-flavored No Country for Old Men: Set in Iberia Parish in post-Katrina Louisiana, In the Electric Mist (based on the sixth novel in the Robicheaux series, 1993's In the ...

Swan Peak by James Lee Burke

Dave Robicheaux and Clete Purcel need to get away from post-Katrina south Louisiana. By coincidence (or not), one of the thugs is familiar to Robicheaux and Purcel. " Fans of the Robicheaux series will enjoy seeing what their old friends are up to ...