In a recovery unit on St. Charles Avenue, Dave Robicheaux is fighting an enemy more insidious than the one who put a bullet in his back a month earlier: morphine is playing tricks on his mind and luring him back into the addict mentality. Then Tee Jolie Melton, a young woman with a troubled past, visits and leaves an iPod that plays "My Creole Belle." But Tee Jolie disappeared weeks ago, and no one believes she reappeared to comfort an old man.
