The last First Tuesday Book Club for 2007 has Ian Rankin as a guest and he nominated his favourite book for the year The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke. He called Burke a "crime writer's crime writer". I enjoyed this book, set against the horrifying background of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The scale of this tragedy and the government's ineptitude in dealing with it is very disturbing. Detective Dave Robicheaux investigates the shooting of two black men during the storm. What were the men doing when they were shot? There was a lot of looting going on and some very valuable property went missing. A mysterious psychopath, Bledsloe, comes into the picture, trying to find these valuable stolen items and then he impacts on Robicheaux's family with near disastrous consequences. Very well written. 4/5Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Tin Roof Blowdown
The last First Tuesday Book Club for 2007 has Ian Rankin as a guest and he nominated his favourite book for the year The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke. He called Burke a "crime writer's crime writer". I enjoyed this book, set against the horrifying background of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The scale of this tragedy and the government's ineptitude in dealing with it is very disturbing. Detective Dave Robicheaux investigates the shooting of two black men during the storm. What were the men doing when they were shot? There was a lot of looting going on and some very valuable property went missing. A mysterious psychopath, Bledsloe, comes into the picture, trying to find these valuable stolen items and then he impacts on Robicheaux's family with near disastrous consequences. Very well written. 4/5
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