NEWS
Publishers Weekly Review of HARBOR LIGHTS
These impressive stories establish that Burke doesn’t need a whodunit plot to catch a reader’s attention.
Kirkus Review of HARBOR LIGHTS
Eight stories, four of them new, continue the author’s career-long project of expanding the mystery genre to include bigger crimes like slavery and deeper mysteries like the nature of evil.
Letter from JLB on the Release of FLAGS ON THE BAYOU
A letter to readers from JLB on the occasion of the release of FLAGS ON THE BAYOU
Upcoming Books
We have lots of exciting news to share, starting with the schedule of upcoming JLB books
Kirkus Starred Review of FLAGS ON THE BAYOU
A grueling, compassionate demonstration that “the devil ain’t down in a fiery pit. He’s right here.”
Publishers Weekly Starred Review of FLAGS ON THE BAYOU
This is masterful.
A Letter to Readers
This letter was included at the start of the early reviewer copies of EVERY CLOAK ROLLED IN BLOOD
Excerpts from the EVERY CLOAK ROLLED IN BLOOD Audiobook
Listen to two powerful excerpts from the EVERY CLOAK ROLLED IN BLOOD audiobook, read by award-winning narrator Will Patton.
On the Release of Another Kind of Eden
Hello, everyone. Today is pub date for Every Cloak Rolled in Blood. In many ways it is a personal book, but in many ways it is not. There are perhaps five themes in the story, which thread in and out of our history and also the times in which we live. I believe we are...
Publishers Weekly on Every Cloak Rolled in Blood
At the start of this stunning supernaturally tinged entry in MWA Grand Master Burke’s long-running Holland family saga (after 2021’s Another Kind of Eden), a teenage boy spray paints a swastika on the barn of octogenarian author Aaron Holland Broussard in rural...