Creole Belle is the 19th novel in the Dave Robicheaux series by author James Lee Burke.
Creole Belle is James Lee Burke at his peak, with series beloved hero Dave Robicheaux leading the battle against the ravages of both the land and the people he’s sworn to protect.
Dave is at a rehabilitation unit in New Orleans, where a Creole girl named Tee Jolie Melton visits him and leaves him an iPod with the country song “Creole Belle” on it. Dave is haunted by the song and the memory of Tee Jolie and goes in search of his sister, who later appears inside an iceberg in the Gulf. Meanwhile, there has been a hole in an oil well in the Gulf, threatening the beloved vicinity of the bay.
