James Lee Burke's 'Creole Belle' is Kerri's book pick

'Creole Belle'
'Creole Belle' by James Lee Burke
Book cover courtesy of publisher

Kerri's book Pick of the Week is the audio version of James Lee Burke's "Creole Belle." Actor Will Patton narrates and "makes it sound like a play," Kerri said.

The book, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, mixes Burke's "thoughts on how energy corrupts (the BP oil spill is a leitmotif), slavery white and more traditional, Nazi experiments, Medieval torture and modern weaponry, the connections between the underworld and the 1 percent that employs it, and the relationship between generations."

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