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    L.A. Requiem: Elvis Cole, Book 8

    Written by Robert Crais

    Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd

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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 gun shot 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 5, 2000
    ISBN9780553750553
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    L.A. Requiem: Elvis Cole, Book 8
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    Robert Crais

    Robert Crais is the author of the bestselling Cole & Pike novels. A native of Louisiana, Crais moved to Hollywood in the late 70s where he began a successful career in television, writing scripts for such major series as Cagney & Lacey, Miami Vice and Hill Street Blues. In the mid 80s, Crais created a series of crime novels based around the characters Cole & Pike. In addition, Crais has also written several bestselling standalone thrillers. Robert Crais lives in LA with his wife and family.

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    • 5/5
      I read this years ago, and just read it again. It's one of the very best in the Elvis Cole series. If you haven't tried Robert Crais, I heartily recommend this as a starting place.
    • 5/5
      I think I have a new favorite series...read this as part of a reading list for a mystery writing workshop I'll be participating in, in a few weeks now. Absolutely loved it. Crais' characters and the whole unraveling of the story/mystery were positively masterful. I was completely riveted throughout, and jammed through the story faster than any of the others on the book list. As soon as I get my required reading done, I plan on getting the rest of the books in the series...
    • 4/5
      I really loved this book. I couldn't put it down. It was great to find out more about Pike and why he didn't get along with LAPD. I liked his back story too. It was interesting to find out what made Pike Pike. Crais really had me hating Krantz at the end. The only way the book could have been better is if Krantz had died too.
    • 4/5
      An average thriller which even though manages to hold your attention for most of the part,is replete with hollywoodish characters and over melodrama.
    • 4/5
      Elvis Cole, the Hawaiian shirt wearing, wise-cracking, ex-Army Ranger turned P.I., is the frontman for the Elvis Cole Detective Agency. Joe Pike is his partner, an ex-Marine who never even cracks a smile, let alone cracks wise. L.A. Requiem, published in 1999, is Robert Crais' eighth novel and Cole and Pike's eighth outing together, but it's the first to offer deep and meaningful insight into Pike's enigmatic character (Has he ever smiled? Just what do his eyes look like under those always present sunglasses?). Their cases are always intense, but this time it's personal. Karen Garcia, an ex-girlfriend of Pike's, with whose father he's still very close, has disappeared. The police won't even think about an investigation until she's been missing for more than the single day it's been, and at the request of the father the guys begin searching for Karen. Mere hours into their involvement, though, the young woman is found murdered; her father, a former gangbanger turned businessman and behind-the-scenes political mover, pulls strings to get the two private investigators allowed on the official police investigation. They soon discover that something's not quite right. The police seem to be lacking a certain urgency, and it's not long before Cole and Pike figure out that her murder is the fifth in a series of murders with similar signatures...but no apparent connection or similarity among the victims. And, not only is there an apparent serial killer working the City of Angels, but the officer in charge of the task force is one who bears a deep, abiding, vengeful grudge against Pike, who was a police officer for several years after leaving the Marines. Whew. In addition to Elvis Cole's usual snappy first person narrative there are flashbacks, told in the more distancing third person, to Pike's past. We see Pike's turbulent childhood, complete with a drunken and abusive father and a beaten down, ineffectual mother; his entrance into an elite recon unit of the Marines and his time in Vietnam; and pictures of his time with the LAPD, which was short and not at all sweet.The novel's action is relentless and often painful. Elvis Cole's relationship with lawyer Lucy Chenier, which is blossoming as it heads into a new phase, is severely tested, perhaps never to recover. More than one person central to the story is seriously injured; some are killed. Some trusts are stretched nearly to the breaking point. But Elvis Cole has the last word, and he remains cautiously optimistic:"When I first came here, I fell in love with this place. During the day, Los Angeles is a great playful puppy of a town, anxious to please and quick with a smile. At night, it becomes a treasure chest filled with magic and dreams. All you have to do is chase your dreams. All you need is the magic. All you have to do is survive, but it's that way anywhere."
    • 5/5
      Found a new mystery series. This was pretty good. Need to figure out the series order so I know what to get next. This is clearly not the first book.
    • 4/5
      This one gives us some insight to Joe Pike who is now added to my list of favourite male characters. In my own crazy world, it would be heaven if Joe Pike and Jack Reacher formed a kickass Justice League with Repairman Jack, Archie Goodwin, and Sam and Dean Winchester.
    • 3/5
      Not extraordinary, but an enjoyable, quick read
    • 3/5
      A serial killer is stalking LA – or is it a hit man? Either way, Angelinos are being kept in the dark and five people have died. The fifth one is Karen Garcia, a former girlfriend of Joe Pike.In this novel we learn the Joe Pike back-story as he moves from a caricature to a more fully fleshed out character. Pike is introduced in a series of flashbacks that are dispersed thought the story. This convention is somewhat irritating at first as the story is constantly interrupted to insert another several page long digression into Pike's history with Garcia, his service as a Los Angeles police officer, and the death of Pike's partner. Eventually Pike is charged with the murder of the man suspected of killing Garcia and Cole and Pike work to find the actual murderer and bring him to justice.
    • 4/5
      A surprisingly thoughtful police thriller. While the plot itself wasn't particularly original or groundbreaking, the language and character development were. There is a particular subplot with the main character's girlfriend that could have been handled in a black and white/he's right she's wrong way that I was pleasantly surprised to find developed with nuance and heart. This was the first of the series I read (found it in a free library) but it will not be the last.
    • 2/5
      Unfortunately,I didn't notice that this book was abridged, as all the previous Audible books were unabridged. I also did not appreciate the narrator as I didn't feel that his touch suited the character of Elvis, though it was fine when reading for Joe Pike.
      These two complaints have jaundiced my view of the story.
      Elvis is asked to investigate the disappearance of an old girl friend of Joe Pike. Things escalate and Joe quickly becomes a suspect in the affair.
      Interesting new character introduced (I cheated, having read the next book ages ago--it must have been on sale.)
      Everything piles up one thing on top of the other until a climatic conclusion, as usual eventuates.
      Some interesting back story developed.

    • 5/5
      Joe Pike & Elvis Cole are asked by Joe's friend, Frank Garcia to find the killer of Frank's daughter. Meanwhile. the LAPD has set up in secret a task force to find a serial killer. Karen Garcia is his latest victim. When a suspect is killed and Joe is seen at the scene by a reliable witness, Joe is arrested much to the glee of the police who have never forgiven him for killing his partner Abel Wozniak.Cole sets off to prove his partner's innocence and eventually convinces a female detective, Samantha Dolan to help him. This costs her her position in the crack Robbery-Homicide Squad. She also falls in love with Elvis which complicates His relationship with Lucy Chenier who has just moved to LA to be close to him.Eventually Joe escapes custody to search for the real killer. Dolan & Cole figure out who the killer is but too late to stop a shoot out at which both Cole & Pike are seriously wounded. Dolan was killed earlier in a booby trapped house. Even though they now know who the killer was for he is now dead too, the police still pursue Joe Pike because of the killing of Wozniak even though Wozniak's wife now knows her husband committed suicide because he could no longer handle the job. I think this is the best Elvis Cole novel I have read so far and a bonus is that we learn more about Joe Pike's background.
    • 4/5
      Excellent!!! We finally get to know what makes Pike tick. His history is the focus of the book, although Elvis continues to be Elvis. You gotta love these guys!
    • 3/5
      Elvis Cole is at it again in a fast-paced who-dun-it. All the evidence points to Joe Pike, a man the police don't like because they "know" that he killed one of theirs. Cole is desperately trying to find the real killer before Joe is lost to him forever.
    • 4/5
      This was an exciting read that kept my attention. The narrator's self-talk is a little corny and strange though. I was a little disappointed that the final "target" was Paulette and her daughter --- that did not make sense to me and I felt it was a little weak.
    • 4/5
      This is without question one of the best detective stories I have read in a long time. Actually, "listened to" might be better more accurate, and I admit that on numerous occasions I pulled into the parking lot only to sit for several minutes to hear the end of a chapter or section, not to mention walking around the house - "there goes Dad again in his own little world" - to hear more.

      This is my first Crais and the seventh in the series starring Elvis Cole and his mysterious and mercenary partner, Joe Pike. Pike's former girlfriend, Karen Garcia, has been shot dead while jogging - I have always maintained that jogging is hazardous, here's another reinforcement. Pike is an enigma; he speaks as little as possible, yet reeks of dangerous potential. The point-of-view shifts from the mysterious serial killer - Karen's death is merely the random fifth in a series of killings all using a bleach bottle as the silencer for the gun - to Pike's background (he had a miserable childhood, became a sensational independent soldier in Vietnam, and shot his partner while a policemen - all tidbits told in such a tantalizing way as to raise one's suspicion that he may be the killer).

      When a second killing occurs, much of the evidence points to Joe and he is arrested. Samantha Dolan, the Robbery-Homicide cop working on the case, falls for Elvis; that ticks off Lucy Chenier, Elvis's girlfriend and attorney, who is already very angry because Elvis's loyalties seem to be with Joe at crucial moments,rather than with her. The tension rachets up several notches, leavened by Elvis's unvoiced, hilariously sarcastic wisecracks.

      Excellent, hard to put down novel.
    • 4/5
      This is the sixth book in the Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series, however the first novel to give the reader a more insightful look at the background of Joe Pike. The book opens with the murder of Karen Garcia, who we soon learn was Joe's ex-girlfriend from years past. Joe, the always serious, taciturn, and remarkably intense partner in the Elvis Cole detective agency, immediately wants to find out what happened. Elvis, his laid-back, smart-aleck of a partner is quick to join in, as much to learn more about his friend and partner as to solve the crime. Throughout the book we see in flashback vignettes that we learn have shaped Joe and made him who he is today. All in all one of the most satisfying of the Cole/Pike novels if for no other reason than we begin to glimpse the inner workings of Pike.