Burke’s career has been long and his output ... It is late fall, 1942, and oil-and-gas engineer James Eustace Broussard and his young son Aaron are out sailing on the Gulf of Mexico when they ...

I told Pearl the first day we were here ... ‘If you’re going to pigeonhole James Lee Burke as just a genre writer, or you’re going to pigeonhole the L.A. Quartet as just a crime opera ...

James Lee Burke is acclaimed as a crime fiction writer ... “Deportees” is set in 1941, just days after Pearl Harbor, although it could have been ripped from the headlines yesterday with ...

Author James Lee Burke scoffs mildly at the suggestion there ... He now resides with his wife, Pearl, on a ranch just outside Missoula, Montana. He often attends Mass at the Catholic chapel ...

In the first column I wrote for this newspaper, I covered three novels. One of those books was by James Lee Burke.

When I ask author James Lee Burke whether the rumor is true that he’s finally written a novel devoted to his brawling, beloved character Clete Purcel, he laughs heartily and pumps his fists in ...

“Creole Belle,” James Lee Burke’s latest novel starring Dave Robicheaux, features oil-drilling disasters, missing singers, drug running, art forgery and Nazi war criminals. James B. Lee Jr ...

In August 2019, America ran a cover story headlined “The God-Haunted Characters of James Lee Burke.” Written by a senior editor, Edward Schmidt, S.J., the profile discussed a “theology” of ...

Since acclaimed crime fiction author James Lee Burke started writing about his best-known character, Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux — that was in “The Neon Rain” back in 1987 — Dave ...

I told Pearl the first day we were here ... ‘If you’re going to pigeonhole James Lee Burke as just a genre writer, or you’re going to pigeonhole the L.A. Quartet as just a crime opera ...