Winner from the 2008 Audie Honor for Mystery

Dave Robicheaux results in an experience as timely as true to life: the fight crime, and the fight forever in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

In the waning days of summer time 2005, a storm with greater impact compared to the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome fact Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As The Tin Roof Blowdown starts, Hurricane Katrina has left the industrial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of each stripe. The power grid of the town has been destroyed; New Orleans decreased to the amount of a medieval society. There is no regulation, no order, no sanctuary for the infirm, the helpless, and the innocent. Systems float in the roads and lay impaled for the branches of flooded trees and shrubs. In the midst of an apocalyptical problem, Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be even more dangerous than the bad guys looting the town.