Clete: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

4.3 | 599 ratings

Price: 17.05

Last update: 06-19-2024

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Ileen C

Homage to Dave Robicheaux!

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2024

In Clete, James Lee Burke has written an homage to the many haunting Dave Robicheaux novels he has written over the years.

There are vivid images of Dave’s hallucinations, both real and imagined, and descriptions of the beauty of their Louisiana and the ugliness of the time and world in which he and his best friend Clete lived. There’s also mention of the delicious food they always ate.

There’s sweet love and horrible hate and horrifying murders and more you can’t even imagine.

This novel, like many of the others, tells a story, but this one is so grim it becomes hard to even believe.

Though if you’re a Dave Robicheaux fan, you’ll want to read this book.

Diane Saul

Suspense

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2024

This book features Clete as the story teller and Dave as a secondary character. There are some dark aspects but also some glimpses of kindness. The book is set in the Louisiana bayou and I felt like I was there from the authors descriptions. This is a dark book that will draw you in. Thank you to net galley for an advanced readers copy.

ValeriS29

I’ve always been crazy, but it’s kept me from going insane.

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2024

This was my first foray into James Lee Burke’s world and it will not be my last by any means. He takes us back to the nineties in southern Louisiana and Mississippi where Clete takes centerstage as he tries to make sense of a host of random events that start with his car being stripped to visits from the legendary Joan of Arc. Dark and gritty, disturbing at times, this novel stays with you well after you shut the cover. Absolutely five stars!

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