Series: Billy Bob Holland
by Author James Lee Burke
Bitterroot (2002)
This was a pretty good book. I suppose in giving it four stars, I am unfairly comparing Burke to himself rather than to other writers, at least to a degree.Here's the issue: most writers who keep a series going have trouble adding another and keeping it distinct; the only two situations where I'v...
Cimarron Rose (1998)
This is the second of Burke's Edgar winning novels, and those two awards were what led an unlikely fan such as myself, an urban woman from the Pacific Northwestern US, to commence reading a series about a cowboy-type cop in Texas.My setting and Burke's are very different, as are our tastes in foo...
Heartwood (2000)
"In my mind's eye I saw Ronnie Cross and Esmeralda Ramirez flying down an empty six-lane highway through the countryside, the chromed engine roaring, the green dials on the walnut dashboard indicating levels of control and power that seemed to transcend the laws of mortality itself.I thought of h...
In The Moon Of Red Ponies (2004)
Burke tells a story of the country around Missoula Montana and includes relations with American Indians and corporations that set their own gains above ecological benefit.Johnny American Horse is a war hero. He's an American Indian attempting to stop oil companies from drilling on Indian Land. ...