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Loading... L.A. Requiem (1999)by Robert Crais
None. My first 'Joe Pike' book. He and his partner Elvis Cole are fun characters. (  )  EctopicBrain | Jul 31, 2012 |  good! (  ) jenny.whitman | Apr 9, 2012 | 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. ( )1  msphotogirl | Apr 7, 2012 | ok ( ) WinonaBaines | Jan 27, 2012 | An average thriller which even though manages to hold your attention for most of the part,is replete with hollywoodish characters and over melodrama. ( ) adithyajones | Jan 13, 2012 | no reviews | add a review Is contained in
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0345434471, Mass Market Paperback)Robert Crais (Free Fall, Monkey's Raincoat) returns with his eighth Elvis Cole mystery, L.A. Requiem, 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 Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law: "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?'" (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:29:10 -0500) A reckoning has come to the City of Angels ... Karen Garcia is missing and her father doesn't trust the cops he wants someone he knows on the case so he enlists the help of Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. It seems that Karen is the latest victim of a distinctive serial killer and the police are determined to pin her death, and four others, on the witness who found her body. Cole doesn't believe the man has the guts to murder, and with his partner and the police at each other's throats, it's down to him to find the connection that will reveal the killer. But nailing the murderer means choosing between the two people he cares most about ...… (more) |
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