Black Cherry Blues

Summary

Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux, now a widower raising his adopted daughter in Louisiana, becomes a murder suspect after a chance encounter with an old acquaintance pulls him into a deadly conflict over oil leases on Native American land in Montana. Burke pairs lush, lyrical descriptions of landscape with brutal violence and a haunted hero who wrestles with grief, alcoholism, and his own capacity for rage. The novel cemented Robicheaux as one of crime fiction's most enduring and morally complex protagonists.