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Creole Belle

By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
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About this listen

The 19th novel in the highly acclaimed Dave Robicheaux series.

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.

©2012 James Lee Burke (P)2012 Simon and Schuster Modern Detectives Mystery Suspense Fiction New Orleans

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"One of the wonders of American crime fiction." (Mail on Sunday)
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absolutely awesome as usual,combination of descriptive writing and a narrator that is beyond awesome I absolutely love will patton

brilliant

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I wasn't wild about Glass Rainbow - the last James Lee Burke (especially the - gulp! - ending), but in Creole Belle, he's found the sweet spot again. Beautiful language and imagery, all told in Will Patton's honeyed, southern voice. Excellent!

Back to old wonderful greatness

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great narrators voice. a bit too long. evil plotting after oil spillage in deep south.

great story telling

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I cannot believe that JLB can continue to write such fantastic fiction - I’ve been reading and listening to them for 20 years and I never fail to be moved. Will Paton is an excellent narrator.

Absolutely awesome

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I read my first James Lee Burke book seven years ago and this afternoon I finished listening to Creole Belle. I have enjoyed every moment of this Detective Dave Robicheaux story. Like all the others it contains plenty of action, tremendous descriptive passages,actual facts involving the area around New Orleans and the central characters who become so well known to the reader. As Clete, Dave's special friend, would say "Creole Belle is, like all the others, "copacetic".

Thorough enjoyment

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