6/23/2023 0 Comments La requiem by robert craiscop fighting to keep a corrupt partner from destroying his family, we learn more about Pike than we did in the seven previous Cole books. Through flashbacks to Joe's past life as an abused child, a highly motivated teenage soldier and an L.A. 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. 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. He's done this by focusing on Joe Pike, Cole's tough and hitherto totally enigmatic partner. 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.
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