false 297186 15 Robert Crais (<i>Free Fall</i>, <i>Monkey's Raincoat</i>) returns with his eighth Elvis Cole mystery, <I>L.A. Requiem</I>, a breakneck caper that leaves the wise-cracking detective second-guessing himself. Cole's partner, the tight-lipped, charm-free Joe Pike, gets a call from his friend Frank "Tortilla" Garcia. Not only is Garcia a wealthy businessman, he's a political heavyweight and father of Karen, Joe's ex. Frank sends the gumshoe duo out to find his girl, but the boys are beaten to the punch by the men in blue: Karen is found in a park with a bullet in her brain. The two stay on the case, but when another murder points to Pike as a suspect, things take a turn for the worse. The boys on the force are all too willing to put Pike away--he has a checkered past. When Cole attempts to save Pike, he finds a lot more than he bargained for. Crais's knack for snappy dialogue and clean-cut scenes bespeak his former days as a writer for the award-winning <i>Hill Street Blues</i> and <i>L.A. Law</i>: "Krantz's mouth split into a reptilian smile, and I wondered what was playing out here. He said, 'I want this man questioned, Lieutenant. If Pike here knows the vic, maybe he knows how she got like this." Pike said, 'It won't happen, pants.' Krantz's face went deep red, and an ugly web of veins pulsed in his forehead. I moved close to Pike. 'Is there something happening here that I should know about?'" 1026877 1999 L.A. Requiem (Elvis Cole, #8) total:769|5:264|4:367|3:116|2:20|1:2| 769 3178 998 75 5 2 false false Sun Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 18:50:36 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 18:54:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon May 26 08:16:21 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 08:21:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Oct 20 08:16:38 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 08:16:48 -0700 2009
Private Investigator Joe Pike’s ex-girlfriend, Karen Garcia, has just turned up dead. Karen’s father, an important man on the city council, is calling on Pike and his partner Cole to work with the LAPD to find the killer. T...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 17:28:32 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 17:54:24 -0700 2009 The Cenotaph Road series. James introduced me to Martha Gr...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 15:14:34 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 15:25:12 -0700 2009
This novel deals more with Cole's partner, Joe Pike, and the story unwinds with the help of some flashbacks and dreams. One would think that Joe would be s...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 10 15:03:31 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 19:22:16 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 26 17:30:35 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 13:21:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Feb 12 21:38:46 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 21:44:02 -0800 2009
For years I'd heard all of these people raving about Elvis Cole and thought he just can't be all that and kind of refused to read Crais' books on general principles...more...]]> 2 0 true false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 10:07:25 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 12:13:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Fri Nov 14 06:24:17 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 23 05:22:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 12 13:50:44 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 13:50:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 30 10:59:26 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 10:59:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 01:05:06 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 09:33:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 06 19:55:05 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 19:58:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 09:40:43 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 09:44:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 27 13:23:52 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 13:29:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 16:02:19 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 04 16:30:11 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 10:17:25 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 10:20:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 15:36:36 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 06:52:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 06:21:57 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 06:27:35 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=297186