“America’s very best novelist” James Lee Burke returns with another NY Times bestselling entry in the Dave Robicheaux thriller series (The Denver Post).

Established against the events of the Gulf Coastline oil spill, rife with “the menaces of greed and violence and man-made horror” (The Christian Technology Monitor), Creole Belle finds Dave Robicheaux languishing in a fresh Orleans recovery device since surviving a bayou shoot-out. The detective’s is curing; it’s his morphine-addled mind that conjures spectral visions of Tee Jolie Melton, a young woman who in reality has gone lacking. An iPod with a vintage blues song left by his bedside becomes Robicheaux into a guy obsessed…And as essential oil businesses assign blame after an epic disaster threatens the Gulf’s extremely existence, Robicheaux unearths cable connections between tragedies both global and personal-and encounters down forces that can corrupt and kill the very best of men.