I just finished Neon Rain. I like his style with descriptions and the way he fills out the backgrounds and personalities of his characters. His description of the cityscape and areas around New Orleans, as a for-instance, made me want to see it, even though over the years I’d decided it was too dangerous a place to tour indiscriminately.
I thought his plot in Neon Rain was a little thin and vaguely connected in its story line, but maybe I’m unfairly judging it against some of the books I’ve been reading which if anything seem too intense with plots like a roller coasters; his was more “plodding” if that’s kind enough word.
Anyway I’m now reading his second novel in the Dave Robicheaux series, “Heaven’s Prisoners,” and I’m enjoying it very much. I liked his mentioning the burial tomb of Evangeline, and her lover, involving the Acadian heritage of some of the people of French descent there in N.O. which is his own.