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CLETE Preview
Here’s the first chapter of CLETE, read by award-winning narrator Will Patton. Enjoy!
Publishers Weekly Starred Review of CLETE
Publishers Weekly has given CLETE a starred review! Readers will delight in Burke’s sterling prose (Louisiana is “an antediluvian place that could have been formed on the first day of Creation, then forgotten, feral and threatening”) and take heart amid the surreal...
Booklist Starred Review of CLETE
Booklist has given CLETE a starred review! It’ll come as no surprise to Burke’s fans that this is a perfectly constructed story told extremely well, and the opportunity to see Dave through the eyes of his best friend, from a new and rather intimate angle, absolutely...
Publishers Weekly Review of HARBOR LIGHTS
These impressive stories establish that Burke doesn’t need a whodunit plot to catch a reader’s attention.
Kirkus Review of HARBOR LIGHTS
Eight stories, four of them new, continue the author’s career-long project of expanding the mystery genre to include bigger crimes like slavery and deeper mysteries like the nature of evil.
Letter from JLB on the Release of FLAGS ON THE BAYOU
A letter to readers from JLB on the occasion of the release of FLAGS ON THE BAYOU
Upcoming Books
We have lots of exciting news to share, starting with the schedule of upcoming JLB books
Kirkus Starred Review of FLAGS ON THE BAYOU
A grueling, compassionate demonstration that “the devil ain’t down in a fiery pit. He’s right here.”
Publishers Weekly Starred Review of FLAGS ON THE BAYOU
This is masterful.
A Letter to Readers
This letter was included at the start of the early reviewer copies of EVERY CLOAK ROLLED IN BLOOD