Black Cherry Blues
A Novel
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4.2 • 372 Ratings
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Publisher Description
In this Edgar Award-winning thriller, former Louisiana homicide cop Dave Robicheaux is trying to start a new life after the murder of his wife — but he can't escape his past forever. Dave Robicheaux was once a Louisiana homicide cop. Now he's trying to start a new life, opening up a fishing business and caring for his adopted girl, Alafair.
Compared to Louisiana, Robicheaux thought Montana would be safe — until two Native American activists suddenly go missing. When Robicheaux begins investigating, he is led into the dark world of the Mafia and oil companies. At the same time, someone from his past comes back to haunt him. Someone who was responsible for Robicheaux's flight from New Orleans — someone who brutally murdered his wife — and now is after young Alafair...
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, Black Cherry Blues spans from the mystical streets of New Orleans to the endless mountains of Montana, and ranks among James Lee Burke's finest work — an enduring classic, darkly beautiful and thrilling.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Burke pits a land-hungry oil company against a Blackfeet Indian reservation in a stunning novel that takes detective fiction into new imaginative realms. His Cajun sleuth, Dave Robicheaux, an ex-New Orleans cop featured in two previous novels, attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, has recurrent nightmares about his murdered wife, and cares for an adopted El Salvadoran refugee girl. When two American Indian activists disappear, Robicheaux's dogged investigation not only sets him on a collision course with Mafia thugs and oil interests, but also leads him into a romance with Darlene American Horse, his ex-partner's girlfriend. All the main characters in this darkly beautiful, lyric saga carry heavy emotional baggage, and Robicheaux's sleuthing is a simultaneous exorcism of demons of grief, loss, fear, rage, vengeance. Burke's fictional terrain--stretching from the Louisiana bayous to Montana's red cliffs and pine-dotted hills--is uniquely his own, yet also a microcosm of a multi-ethnic America. He writes from the heart and the gut. 35,000 first printing; major ad/promo.
Customer Reviews
This!
…book led me to changing careers and to becoming a librarian.
Thank you so much Mr. James Lee Burke sir.
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Burke is always a pleasure
It is amazing how James Lee Burke can create such a vivid picture with his writings. He is the master at drawing you into his books and stories. I have been to Louisiana on business many times which makes the Dave Robicheaux books that much more entertaining for me. He is one of favorite authors.
Excellent
Great story, love able characters. I loved the crystal clear and colorful descriptions of the bayou, the land and the reddish sky, and the lovely Montana mountains.
Dave is humanely flawed, but that makes him REAL. He has a soft loving heart for his daughter ALAFAIR.. I will continue to read all of the books in this series, I want to watch and read about ALAFAIR and how she is growing, and the development of Dave Robicheux.
LADY PEPPER ROSE May 27, 2020