Every Cloak Rolled in Blood by James Lee BurkeMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Burke heads deep into ghost territory in this one, deeper than most of the recent Dave Robicheaux books. Combine that with a protagonist who is a cantankerous, retired 85, but in whose actions seem half his age, and you have a couple of main aspects of this book that tend to turn me off. Burke is really stretching his reader’s believability. But the writing makes up for this. And the complexity of the story helps – there’s a lot going on here. A great feel for place again, this time small town Montana. I’ll keep reading him, but he’s moving closer to Poe or even Lovecraft as time goes on.
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