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The Tin Roof Blowdown
Series: Dave Robicheaux
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New edition of award-winner James Lee Burke's powerful crime novel set against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina and its devastating effects on New Orleans.
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'His most gripping thriller to date.' Mirror
Hurricane Katrina has transformed New Orleans into a violent wasteland. Criminals capitalise on the devastation as survivors wait for help that never comes.
David Robicheaux—his city in ruins—is tasked with investigating the murder of a pair of looters: is it a simple case of 'stand-your-ground', or something altogether darker? The dead men's accomplice holds the key but he has disappeared to escape the people hunting him.
As Robicheaux uncovers a brutal catalogue of greed, torture and murder, his own family is threatened, and the ravaged city provides the perfect stage for a final confrontation between good and evil.
'A beautifully written howl of rage.' Time Out
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The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke is praised for transcending the crime genre, offering profound historical insights and vivid depictions of Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath. Critics commend the novel as gripping and powerful, noting it as potentially Burke's finest work, with comparisons drawn to the best of Southern fiction. It is celebrated for its evocative writing and portrayal of New Orleans, while also being recognised as Burke's most emotionally charged novel.
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ISBN: 9781409172413
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 July 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 34.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 320g
Pages: 464
About the Author
James Lee Burke is the author of many novels, and the critically-acclaimed, bestselling Detective Dave Robicheaux series. He won the Edgar Award for both Cimarron Rose and Black Cherry Blues, and Sunset Limited was awarded the CWA Gold Dagger. Two For Texas was adapted for television, and Heaven's Prisoners and In the Electric Mist for film. Burke has been a Breadloaf Fellow and Guggenheim Fellow, has been awarded the Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America and has been nominated for a Pulitzer award. He lives with his wife, Pearl, in Missoula, Montana.
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