So it’s been almost a month since the last book! A lot has happened including Peter’s wedding, Nick’s accident, Elizabeth’s return to college and through it all I have been in the world of Dave Robicheaux and Clete Purcell in Book 29 The Glass Rainbow by James Lee Burke. Hum, it does not usually take me this long to read a Burke novel but there was just something about this book so that I really couldn’t get into it and I don’t know what it was. The characters are still good Dave and Clete and Alafair. The low-lifes and criminals are still there.
In this one Dave and Clete are investigating the murder of nine women in the Jefferson Davis Parish including one who doesn’t fit in with the others an honor student and all around good girl. Alafair is dating a man Kermit Abelard who Dave does not approve of and even likes his house guest (and other lover ex-con Robert Weingart even less. Soon both stories intersect along with an investigation of Clete’s!
Overall the book moved more quickly over the last 100 ages or so and
become a page turner at that point. But like always even though I wasn’t enthralled with the book the writing and sense of place that Burke creates were still there putting him well ahead of the crowd in my opinion and I will look forward to his next book which is a Hackberry Holland book (Rain Gods) I think!