I was a big fan of Burke's for a while. Neon Rain was pretty
good, but Heaven's Prisoners was better. In my mind, he
peaked with Black Cherry Blues, but held up the quality for a
while. I liked Electric Mist, enjoyed the hallucinatory
quality of it, partly because it was never really made clear
if the visions were truly supernatural or his own
constructions, possibly helped along by his being drugged.
However, I felt the supernatural elements in later books were
just covering sloppy plotting -- I mean, a crucial warning
coming in the form of a phone call from a ghost? Come
on.
I'm with the others, though, on Lost Get-Back Boogie. It's as
good as the best of the Robicheaux books. Are his other early
literary books also good? That's the only one I've
read.
Mark
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