{"product_id":"books-creole-belle-by-james-lee-burke","title":"Creole Belle","description":"\u003cb\u003eDave Robicheaux investigates the disappearance of a young Creole woman, while an oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico threatens to destroy the cherished beauty of the Louisiana bayous in this gripping thriller. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet against the events of the Gulf Coast oil spill, rife with the menaces of greed and violence and man-made horror (\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eCreole Belle\u003c\/i\u003e finds Dave Robicheaux languishing in a New Orleans recovery unit since surviving a bayou shoot-out. The detective's body is healing; it's his morphine-addled mind that conjures spectral visions of Tee Jolie Melton, a young woman who in reality has gone missing. An iPod with an old blues song left by his bedside turns Robicheaux into a man obsessed. And as oil companies assign blame after an epic disaster threatens the Gulf's very existence, Robicheaux unearths connections between tragedies both global and personal--and faces down forces that can corrupt and destroy the best of men. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A work of dark and radiant brilliance (\u003ci\u003eRichmond Times-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eCreole Belle\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that shows how the sins of the fathers poison the ground their children walk on (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53674239230225,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781451648133.jpg?v=1781529990","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-creole-belle-by-james-lee-burke","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}