James Lee Burke has published three novels spotlighting other characters over the four years it’s been since we last had a mystery featuring his signature character, Dave Robicheaux. That book ...

Billy Bob is the creation of novelist James Lee Burke. Burke's daughter, Alafair Burke, is the writer behind Samantha Kincaid.

James Lee Burke has written the sequel, a bookend really, to “White Doves at Morning.” “Flags on the Bayou” is set again in Louisiana – the year is 1863. Both books are intertwined with ...

Writer and gentleman rancher James Lee Burke leaves the barn on his 120-acre ranch, Heartwood, with a load of feed for his horses including, Love That Santa Fe, who waits outside the barn doors.

James Burke’s Louisiana is a land of heartbreaking beauty. In novel after novel, he’s given us poetic descriptions of sparkling Gulf waters, bayou sunsets, lurking gators and birds taking flight.

James Lee Burke, pictured, wins raves for his Hurricane Katrina novel; also, the Top 10 on Small Press Distribution’s poetry best-seller list. By Dwight Garner ...

James Lee Burke is acclaimed as a crime fiction writer, and one of the best at that. Over the more than five decades that he has been publishing books, he has taken a wider view of crime — his ...

James Lee Burke, pictured, wins raves for his Hurricane Katrina novel; also, the Top 10 on Small Press Distribution’s poetry best-seller list. By Dwight Garner ...

James Burke’s Louisiana is a land of heartbreaking beauty. In novel after novel, he’s given us poetic descriptions of sparkling Gulf waters, bayou sunsets, lurking gators and birds taking flight.

James Lee Burke: By the Book The author, most recently, of the forthcoming Dave Robicheaux murder mystery “The New Iberia Blues” loves the Beat writers: “I wish Jack Kerouac had lived to be ...