James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty-four novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.
Praise for The Hadacol Boogie: ""Some series have their highs and lows, but not so the Robicheaux series...it's been one slice of brilliance after another, and this one is, like the ones the came before it, a work of art.""--Booklist Praise for James Lee Burke: ""James Lee Burke is not only the greatest living American mystery novelist, but also perhaps the most deeply moral and humane. The rest of us are writing in his shadow, and are fortunate to be doing so.""--John Connolly ""James Lee Burke is the reigning champ of nostalgia noir.""--New York Times Book Review ""You can always count on Burke to deliver a white-hot page-turner.""--AARP Magazine ""Burke's evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder.""--Entertainment Weekly ""One of the finest novelists in North America.""--Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail ""James Lee Burke is one of a small handful of elite suspense writers whose work transcends the genre, making the leap into capital-L Literature.""--Bookpage ""Like a violent summer storm...Dizzying action....Burke's writing is masterful.""--The Washington Post Book World on The Neon Rain ""This is James Lee Burke writing at the height of his powers. The long wait for a story told from Robicheaux's pal's point of view has been worth it.""--Linwood Barclay, #1 internationally bestselling author, on Clete