I’m usually a big fan of Burke’s beautiful and brutal prose and this isn’t the first Dave Robicheaux novel to take place outside of Louisiana, but somehow the whole thing didn’t click for me.  It felt like there were too many moving parts.  There’s a serial killer, who everyone thinks is dead, who fixates on Dave’s daughter, Alafair.  There are the struggles of Gretchen Horowitz, a documentary filmmaker and daughter of Dave’s best friend, Clete Purcel, who is trying to put her past behind her […]