The Tin Roof Blowdown - James Lee Burke

The Tin Roof Blowdown - James Lee Burke I never had any intention of reviewing another James Lee Burke / Detective Robicheaux novel. He is a writer I have long admired and I continue to draw much enjoyment from all the Robicheaux books, but in all honesty they are not hugely different from each other and having articulated the reasons I'd enjoyed one I would have been largely repeating myself to review any others. However, that was until I read The Tin Roof Blowdown. In many ways this is the book that Burke has been waiting to write or, to put it another way, the book I've been waiting for him to write. You see, Burke builds his Dave Robicheaux stories on ...  Read the complete review

James Lee Burke is one of my favourite authors, and he has published many previous novels, a lot of them featuring Detective Dave Robicheaux. The Tin Roof Blowdown is probably one of his finest novels, and is nothing less than a roller coaster of excitement. The book is set mainly in a New Orleans devastated by Hurricane Katrina and gives us an insight into the devastation and the horror that came with it and in its aftermath. The natural disaster that was Katrina is of almost Armageddon proportions and it thanks to the profound style of written and descriptive detail from James, we can almost experience it for ourselves. There were a few times that I wanted to put the ...  Read the complete review