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buy or rent from www.recordedbooks.com Dave Robicheaux, ex-New Orleans and New Iberia Louisiana cop, now running a bait shop and attending AA meetings, is trying to recover from his wife's violent murder and raise the 6 year old orphan he saved from drowning when the plane she and her mother were on crashed into the bayou. He just wants to run his bait shop and raise Alafair the best way he can. One day Dave goes into Baton Rouge to order some new refrigeration equipment when he runs into an old buddy, Dixie Lee Pughe early rockabilly performer who spent some time in Angola and is still a hard drinking man. They pass the time of day. Dixie Lee is now a lease man, buying up oil leases, and seems to be content in his job. Dave heads back to Bayou Teche and home but some time later he is accused of a crime he didn't commit. In order to clear his name, he takes Alafair, and rents a house in Montana, where he runs into his old partner, Clete Purcell and a particularly vicious mafioso. Mark Hammer narrates this tale with a light Louisiana accent, lapsing into the heavier Cajun of Baptiste and Clarisse when necessary. BLACK CHERRY BLUES is an ideal book to listen to because I would tend to skim the long lyrical descriptive passages and thereby lose much of the beauty and rhythm of Burke's language. This book won the 1990 EDGAR award for Best Mystery Novel. It reads as fresh today as it would have then. The only thing that pulled me out of the story was a silly thing...Dave doesn't have a cell phone. Of course he doesn't. The book was published in 1989. I intend to listen to the whole series within the next few months.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, September 2003
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