Creole Belle
James Lee Burke
Simon & Schuster, Inc.
<span> <em>Creole Belle</em> begins where the last book in the Dave Robicheaux series, <em>The Glass Rainbow</em>,
 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.<em>     Creole Belle</em>
 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.</span>