Tin Roof Blowdown

In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana.

This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff''s Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke''s new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neig...