Creole Belle

Creole Belle begins where the last book in the Dave Robicheaux series, The Glass Rainbow,

ended. Dave is in a recovery unit in New Orleans, where a Creole girl

named Tee Jolie Melton visits him and leaves him an iPod with the

country blues song “Creole Belle” on it. Then she disappears. Dave

becomes obsessed with the song and the memory of Tee Jolie and goes in

search of her sister, who later turns up inside a block of ice floating

in the Gulf. Meanwhile, there has been an oil well blowout on the Gulf,

threatening the cherished environs of the bayous. Creole Belle

is James Lee Burke at his very best, with beloved series hero Dave

Robicheaux leading the charge against the destruction of both the land

and the people he has sworn to protect.