James Lee Burke’s novel The Tin Roof Blowdown [ISBN 978 0 7538 2317 0] is a continuation of his excellent Dave Robicheaux’s stories set in a bayou near New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath. It has the usual mix of dubious and interesting characters, though the plot was fine I did find the narrative quite difficult to get into for the first part of the book.
James Lee Burke’s novel The Tin Roof Blowdown [ISBN 978 0 7538 2317 0] is a continuation of his excellent Dave Robicheaux’s stories set in a bayou near New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath. It has the usual mix of dubious and interesting characters, though the plot was fine I did find the narrative quite difficult to get into for the first part of the book.
Dave Robicheaux’s Police chief has to second her officers to help out in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and the chaos ensuing. Dave Robicheaux and Clete Purcell his strange friend get involved in an investigation of the shooting of two looters who had just stripped the house of a local mob boss, and the one that got away and the one in hospital are unlikely to last long. But who killed them ? He has little time to follow up but Dave is unsure of exactly who shot them. At the same time a sinister psychopath is hanging around and threatening his daughter Alafair.
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