James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936, in Houston, Texas) is an American novelist best known for the Dave Robicheaux crime series, which began with The Neon Rain. He also writes the Billy Bob Holland and Hackberry Holland series. His novels have won three Edgar Awards for Best Novel — Black Cherry Blues (1990), Cimarron Rose (1998), and Flags on the Bayou (2024) — and in 2009 the Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master.