The Edgar Awards Revisited: Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke (Best Novel; 1990)
By Paul Doiron
September 13, 2019Published in 1989, James Lee Burke’s Black Cherry Blues was the first of his two books to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel (his other came in 1998 for Cimarron Rose). It is the third in Burke’s signature series starring Detective Dave Robicheaux, a recovering alcoholic and Vietnam War veteran from New Iberia, Louisiana.…