The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

What a great book. First of all, it is a great murder mystery. That alone is reason enough to read this book. But the thing that separates Burke from other writers is his ability to make you feel, really feel, that you actually lived the events he described. In the book he describes the aftermath of the hurricane Katrina. We know most of the gory physical statistics. But to read about them in terms of their human vividness and suffering is something else. Burke takes us back in time. He makes us feel like we are actually living the gory events ourselves. It is both exciting and riveting. Once you pick up this book you can't put it down. It is like you were transported back in time and witnessed one of the horrific events of modern history all wrapped up in a great murder mystery. It just does not get better than this.