Already the 18th episode of the series and Dave Robicheaux, deputy sheriff of New Iberia, has not aged. JAMES LEE BURKE and continues unabated, we serve the same ingredients: girls atrociously murdered, a black villain, Herman Stanga, both pimp and drug dealer, Abelard rich, a family of powerful white notables, arrogant and perverse whose son Kermit Alafair seduced the daughter of Dave Robicheaux. We must not forget the best friend of this one, Clete Purcel which endangers knocking at indiscriminately. Not to mention the parts of peaches on teche bayou, descents in the French Quarter of New Orleans, bottles of Dr. Pepper in the cooler ... Far from cynicism, Dave Robicheaux says "beautiful" bit, walks her melancholy and critical look at the world. Sometimes disillusioned but never disengaged, he pulls his wisdom and rectitude of his past mistakes. A thriller without (big) surprise but a (large) reading happiness.
