catmum 's review for:

Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke
4.0

Burke writes damaged people better than anyone, the flotsam and jetsam of humanity who nearly always have some redeeming feature. Not for Burke the black and white; only shades of gray. This, the third book in the series, introduces Dave's former partner, Clete Purcell, and a simply wonderful "loser" named Dixie Lee Pugh.

In this outing, Dave gets involved with the mob, oil lease scammers, Indian activists, a sociopath, and Clete's girlfriend, Darlene American Horse, and the story ranges from Bayou Teche to the Blackfoot Reservation in Montana.