Dixie City Jam

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Summary: What a book!
Review: I loved this book! It, along with "In the Electric Mist" are two of my favorites! Tough writing, with characters named Clete, Buchalter, and Robicheaux (what more do you need?) this was a fast-paced novel with excellent plot and development. Also like the dialect--easy to understand and not too much of it. Want a good read and a good mystery along with good writing? This is it.

Also recommended: Bark of the Dogwood and Cold Mountain

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Summary: Burke's crime stories are multi-course gourmet meals.
Review: Some crime stories remind me of a fast food experience. Some remind me of technical dissertations on the food science. Burke's crime stories are multi-course gourmet meals. I leave the table with the memory of many original flavors and ingredients and it takes a while for that memory to fade.Dixie City Jam is no exception. Burke has a gift for storytelling, colorful characters, articulate and realistic dialogue and a very convincing portrayal of a protagonist hero (Robicheaux) who is maintaining his code, compassion and sobriety despite his encounters with evil.If you have any penchant for Burke's style, I might suggest the detective stories by James Crumely

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Summary: With the first words I'm back in southern Louisiana!
Review: When I heard Will Patton's first sentence of my first Dave Robicheaux novel I really did feel that I was transported to New Orleans and southern La. Those wonderful full, round vowels, clipped d's and t's at the end of words, and the melodious, artistic descriptions paint a picture I can't get enough of. Now I'm waiting to get my hands on the next James Lee Burke masterpiece - especially with Patton reading. Don't worry about which of Burke's novels you're grabbing because eventually you'll read them all, one after another like not being able to stop eating pralines or fresh oysters!