New Orleans Novelist James Lee Burke
Burke has been writing for 35 years, but is best known for his more recent detective novels about Dave Robicheaux, a recovering alcoholic, troubled Vietnam vet, and a New Orleans police lieutenant. Those books include "The Neon Rain," "Heaven's Prisoners," "Black Cherry Blues," and "A Morning for Flamingos." His fifth Robicheaux novel is, "A Stained White Radiance."
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