James Lee Burke - Crusader's Cross

Pros: Powerful setting and characterizations
Cons: plotting a bit weak

Over the years Dave Robicheaux, the Cajun Cop, has killed (at least) five men, fallen on and off the wagon more times than you can count, and been on either the delivering or receiving end of more punches than a hockey enforcer named "Gord." He's also ...

Pros: Plot, pacing, continued series character development, etc.
Cons: Reads like it could be the end.

“The wind smelled of humus, lichen, the musky odor of pecan husks broken under the shoe, a sunshower on the fields across the bayou. But any poetry that might have been contained in that moment was lost when I stared into Honoria’s face, ...