Recommendations based on Creole Belleby James Lee Burke

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  1. The Glass Rainbow

    by James Lee Burke
    Detective Dave Robicheaux investigates a series of murders connected to a Hollywood film crew.

    James Lee Burke's eagerly awaited new novel finds Detective Dave Robicheaux back in New Iberia, Louisiana, and embroiled in the most harrowing and dangerous case of his career. Seven young women in ... (Goodreads)

  2. The Tin Roof Blowdown

    by James Lee Burke
    Detective Dave Robicheaux investigates the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, uncovering corruption and violence in New Orleans.

    This is James Lee Burke's latest mystery featuring Dave Robicheaux. It is also much more than that. The story begins with the shooting of two would-be looters in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, ... (Goodreads)

  3. The Neon Rain

    by James Lee Burke
    A detective's search for justice in a crime-ridden city, uncovering long-buried truths.

    While fishing on a back country bayou New Orleans Police Department officer Dave Robicheaux finds a body. Robicheaux, once a U.S. Army infantry lieutenant who fought in the Vietnam War , , becomes ... (Wikipedia)

  4. The Black Box

    by Michael Connelly
    A police detective's pursuit of justice in the face of a relentless killer.

    Bosch tackles a 20-year-old cold case which took place during the 1992 Los Angeles riots . A white photojournalist is found killed near a burned-out store. Harry Bosch and Jerry Edgar were the ... (Wikipedia)

  5. The Drop

    by Michael Connelly
    A Los Angeles Police detective investigates a case of lost money and a missing girl.

    The book was mentioned in a February 2011 interview, where Connelly explained that Bosch would be "handling two cases at once, a cold case that turns hot and the politically charged investigation ... (Wikipedia)

  6. The Burning Room

    by Michael Connelly
    Detective Harry Bosch works to solve a cold case with a mysterious link to a dangerous killer.

    Harry Bosch and his rookie partner Lucia Soto are assigned the case of Orlando Merced, a mariachi performer who was shot in a crowded Los Angeles square and was paralyzed from the waist down. The ... (Wikipedia)

  7. Sixkill

    by Robert B. Parker
    Private investigator Spenser takes on a case involving a troubled young actor and his entourage.

    On location in Boston, bad-boy actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of the rape and murder of a young woman. From the start the case seems fishy, so the Boston PD calls on Spenser to investigate. Things ... (Goodreads)

  8. Bad Blood

    by John Sandford
    A thrilling crime novel, pitting a detective against a deadly mastermind.

    Another brilliant Virgil Flowers thriller from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author. One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator- ... (Goodreads)

  9. The Son

    by Philipp Meyer
    Epic multigenerational saga of a Texas family, their rise to power, and the violent legacy they leave behind.

    In 1849 thirteen year old Eli McCullough's family is attacked by the Comanches. The attack results in the rape and murder of his sister and mother. Eli and his older brother are kidnapped. While ... (Wikipedia)

  10. A Wanted Man

    by Lee Child
    Thrilling journey of an ex-military fugitive on the run, pursued by dangerous enemies.

    The novel opens with Jack Reacher, whose nose is broken from his last adventure (Worth Dying For), trying to get a ride out of Nebraska, hitch-hiking in the middle of the night, without any car ... (Wikipedia)

  11. The Dark Horse

    by Craig Johnson
    A sheriff investigates a mysterious murder in the small town of Wyoming.

    Read Craig Johnson's posts on the Penguin Blog.,, Walt Longmire goes undercover to save a woman in an unfriendly place, Interweaving classic noir sensibilities and humor with contemporary themes of ... (Goodreads)

  12. The Last Detective

    by Robert Crais
    Private detective unravels a web of lies as he searches for missing persons.

    P.I. Elvis Cole’s relationship with attorney Lucy Chenier is strained. Then the unthinkable happens. While Lucy is away on business and her ten-year-old son Ben is staying with Elvis, the boy ... (Goodreads)

  13. Make Me

    by Lee Child
    An ex-military drifter is framed for a murder and must uncover the truth to clear his name.

    Somewhere in the sprawling, flat, desolate Midwestern United States, Reacher arrives by train at a small town named Mother's Rest, curious as to the story behind the name. He meets a Chinese American ... (Wikipedia)

  14. Mad River

    by John Sandford
    A crime thriller featuring a detective's investigation into a series of gruesome murders.

    They thought they were Bonnie and Clyde. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a woman during a ... (Goodreads)

  15. Any Other Name

    by Craig Johnson
    A Wyoming Sheriff investigates a cold case murder that uncovers a tangled web of secrets.

    A sheriff’s mysterious death spurs the new novel in the, New York Times, bestselling Walt Longmire series Sheriff Walt Longmire had already rounded up a sizable posse of devoted readers when the A&E ... (Goodreads)

  16. Buried Prey

    by John Sandford
    Detective Lucas Davenport investigates a long-forgotten case of two missing teenage girls.

    A house demolition provides an unpleasant surprise for Minneapolis-the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic. It looks like they've been there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long. ... (Goodreads)

  17. Killing Floor

    by Lee Child
    An ex-military cop is thrust into a dangerous criminal underworld to solve the murder of a woman.

    Jack Reacher gets off a Greyhound bus in the town of Margrave, Georgia , because he remembers his brother mentioning that a blues musician named Blind Blake had died there. Much to his surprise, ... (Wikipedia)

  18. Live by Night

    by Dennis Lehane
    A young man rises through the ranks of organized crime during Prohibition-era America, facing danger and betrayal along the way.

    By 1926, Prohibition in the United States gives rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston ... (Wikipedia)

  19. The English Girl

    by Daniel Silva
    A young English woman goes missing in Corsica, and Gabriel Allon is called to investigate. The case leads him to a web of international intrigue.

    Madeline Hart is a rising star in Britain’s governing party: beautiful, intelligent, driven by an impoverished childhood to succeed. But she is also a woman with a dark secret: she is the lover of ... (Goodreads)

  20. Red Mist

    by Patricia Cornwell
    Dr. Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of a young woman, while dealing with personal and professional challenges.

    The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer. Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta ... (Goodreads)

  21. Heartbreak Hotel

    by Jonathan Kellerman
    Psychologist Alex Delaware investigates a murder at a seedy hotel, uncovering dark secrets and twisted motives.

    Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis investigate the death of Alex’s most mysterious patient to date in the sensational new thriller from the master of suspense, #1, New York Times, bestselling author ... (Goodreads)

  22. Unnatural Exposure

    by Patricia Cornwell
    Dr. Kay Scarpetta investigates a series of murders linked to a dangerous virus, while dealing with personal and professional challenges.

    Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has a bloody puzzle on her hands: five headless, limbless cadavers in Ireland , plus four similar victims in a landfill back home. Is a serial butcher ... (Wikipedia)

  23. One Last Thing Before I Go

    by Jonathan Tropper
    A washed-up musician faces his mortality and tries to make amends with his estranged family.

    “Mistakes have been made.” Drew Silver has begun to accept that life isn’t going to turn out as he expected. His fleeting fame as the drummer for a one-hit wonder rock band is nearly a decade behind ... (Goodreads)

  24. The Bone Bed

    by Patricia Cornwell
    Dr. Kay Scarpetta investigates a murder case involving a missing paleontologist and a mysterious bone bed.

    A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two ... (Goodreads)

  25. Coyote Waits

    by Tony Hillerman
    Navajo Tribal Police investigate a murder with ties to ancient Navajo witchcraft.

    Officers Chee and Nez agree to meet at Red Rock trading post for a break from patrol. Chee hears Nez laughing on the radio about seeing the person who has been defacing local rock formations with ... (Wikipedia)

  26. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

    by David Mitchell
    An epic tale of love and adventure set in an 18th century Japanese trading port.

    The novel begins in the summer of 1799 at the Dutch East India Company trading post Dejima in the harbor of Nagasaki . It tells the story of a Dutch trader's love for a Japanese midwife who is ... (Wikipedia)

  27. The Sentry

    by Robert Crais
    A private investigator uncovers a deadly conspiracy while investigating a missing persons case.

    Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina; but now, five years later, they face a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a protection gang, he offers his ... (Goodreads)

  28. Touch & Go

    by Lisa Gardner
    A gripping thriller of a woman's desperate quest to uncover her family's dark secrets.

    #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner, author of Catch Me and Love You More , returns with a heart-thumping thriller about what lurks behind the facade of a perfect family. This is my family: ... (Goodreads)

  29. The Drop

    by Dennis Lehane
    A man's struggle to untangle a web of organized crime as he searches for a missing child.

    Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith—the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight ... (Goodreads)

  30. An Obvious Fact

    by Craig Johnson
    A motorcycle accident leads to a murder investigation in the wilds of Wyoming. Sheriff Walt Longmire must solve the case before more lives are lost.

    In the latest installment of the, New York Times, bestselling Longmire series—the basis for the hit drama, Longmire,, now on Netflix—Walt, Henry, and Vic discover much more than they bargained for ... (Goodreads)