The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee BurkeMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Haven't been back to NOLA since Katrina, until reading this installment of Robicheaux and Purcel on the case of the murder of two young black looters. New Iberia law enforcement has been called in to help with the various crimes committed during the chaotic aftermath of the storms, Katrina and Rita. As usual, nothing is simple--blood diamonds, a made guy and his wife, a couple whose daughter was traumatized by a gang rape, a strange guy who doesn't seem to have a past but keeps turning up to threaten Dave and his family. All this amidst the devastation of a large swath of the Louisiana Gulf Coast. It is interesting to see how the fictional Alafair's novel writing develops, since the real Alafair, Burke's daughter, became a novelist.
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