In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead

Book 6 of Dave Robicheaux series. I would give it a "5" star rating. It is nothing to do with the book but I really have to reserve five stars to real classic must be reads like Emma by Jane Austen. I would recommend this book to everyone. It certainly does have a surreal atmosphere throughout. Wonderful descriptive prose. I think this is the best so far in this series but it is important to start at No.1. James Lee Burke once you get used to the style is up with Ian Rankin and Michael Connelly as one of the best. Keeps you guessing until the end. Others readers would probably give this a five star rating. The review giving one star, saying overwritten, yes perhaps he does wax lyrical a fraction too much, but when the prose is good it's really good. If I could give it a four and a half star I would.

It's a crowded field, but James Lee Burke is possibly the very best. He's certainly (by quite some distance) the most consistently powerful writer of crime fiction - there is no-one else who shows so successfully how the lyrical and the beautiful can be only seconds and inches away from the brutal.Burke's world is grim and extremely violent (although he's not usually unnecessarily graphic) - but also full of glory, beauty and compassion. It is an absolutely compelling mixture.In fact, he's one of the very best stylists alive, and deserves to be considered in the widest context of literary fiction, not confined to a genre.

More than the plot what is really good in this book is the evocative decription of Louisiana which stirs all five senses; you actually feel you're there.Regardless of the stereotypes this book contains it is still a story rich in atmosphere and well built characters. I'll check the author's other works too.

The book was just as I required and I was very pleased with the order

Good condition