James Lee Burke is an American author who is one of the most acclaimed crime writers in the world. Born in Houston, Texas, in 1936, he is best known for his Dave Robicheaux series, set in the bayou country of Louisiana, and his Hackberry Holland novels.
A Morning for Flamingos is one of his Dave Robicheaux novels — literary crime fiction set in Louisiana, featuring prose of extraordinary beauty and a detective haunted by violence, memory, and the ghosts of the American South. Burke has won two Edgar Awards and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers some of the most beautifully written crime fiction in the world — detective novels with the prose of a poet and the soul of the American South.
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