Robert Crais. (2012). L.A. Requiem: Elvis Cole/Joe Pike Series, Book 8. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.

Robert Crais. 2012. L.A. Requiem: Elvis Cole/Joe Pike Series, Book 8. Recorded Books, Inc.

Robert Crais, L.A. Requiem: Elvis Cole/Joe Pike Series, Book 8. Recorded Books, Inc, 2012.

Robert Crais. L.A. Requiem: Elvis Cole/Joe Pike Series, Book 8. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2012.

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The day starts like any other in L.A. The sun burns hot as the Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires to coat the glittering city. But for private investigator Joe Pike, the city will never be the same again. His ex-lover, Karen Garcia, is dead, brutally murdered with a gunshot to the head. Now Karen's powerful father calls on Pike (a former cop) and his partner, Elvis Cole, to keep an eye on the LAPD as they search for his daughter's killer—because in the luminous City of Angels, everyone has secrets, and even the mighty blue have something to hide. But what starts as a little procedural hand-holding turns into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. For a dark web of conspiracy threatens to destroy Pike and Cole's twelve-year friendship—if not their lives. And L.A. just might be singing their dirge. "Terrific entertainment ... A powerful portrait of Los Angeles in our time: swift, colorful, gripping, a real knockout."—Dean Koontz

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     Starred review from May 31, 1999
     In his eighth book about wise-cracking Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole, Crais has expanded his narrative reach and broadened his characters' horizons to produce a mature work that deserves to move him up a notch or two--into Parker or Connelly country. He's done this by focusing on Joe Pike, Cole's tough and hitherto totally enigmatic partner. It's Pike who breaks in on Cole's reunion with Lucy Chenier, his lawyer/broadcaster lover who has just moved from New Orleans, to ask for Elvis's help in tracking down the missing daughter of a rich and powerful Hispanic businessman. When the girl turns up murdered in Griffith Park, it's Pike who gives a nerdy medical examiner valuable assistance; and when it turns out that the girl's death is linked to several other murders, it's Pike who is charged with killing the chief suspect. Through flashbacks to Joe's past life as an abused child, a highly motivated teenage soldier and an L.A. cop fighting to keep a corrupt partner from destroying his family, we learn more about Pike than we did in the seven previous Cole books. This new focus also allows Crais to keep Elvis's often annoying throwaway lines to a minimum--although more pruning could have been done with no loss of flavor. The book's scope is wide enough to include many other memorable characters, especially a rough-edged, vulnerable police officer named Samantha Dolan, plus a choice of plausible villains. There may be one too many metaphoric descriptions attempting to link aspects of the L.A. landscape with the moods and deeds of its inhabitants, but overall Crais seems to have successfully stretched himself the way another Southern California writer--Ross Macdonald--always tried to do, to write a mystery novel with a solid literary base.

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   • content: Joe Pike, a quiet, deeply reserved ex-cop turned detective, and his partner, Elvis Cole, pursue the unknown murderer of Pike's former girlfriend. Lloyd represents the Hollywood police and the other characters in a believable manner. The story's fast-paced action requires the listener to sort through disjointed flashbacks that provide motive for the murder. Lloyd ratchets up the tension as a conspiracy and police cover-up lead to a surprising conclusion. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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   • content: PIs Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, hunt a serial killer on the streets of L.A., battling the police department and the madman murderer. Before this thriller is finished, Pike himself becomes a suspect, and Cole must save his friend's life. The strong narrative and the masterful work of Ron McLarty make this an audiobook you can't stop listening to. McLarty captures the sincere but laid-back Cole, who narrates most of the book, and the taciturn Pike and creates clear voice pictures of the other characters. P.B.J. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine

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