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    L.A. Requiem
    L.A. Requiem
    L.A. Requiem
    Audiobook13 hours

    L.A. Requiem

    Written by Robert Crais

    Narrated by Ron McLarty

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 3, 2012
    ISBN9781464034015
    L.A. Requiem
    Author

    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
      With many clues, keeps one guessing until the end. Full of suspense and interesting characters.
    • 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
      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.
    • 5/5
      This guy just keeps you involved and can’t put down. My new favorite suspense writer.
    • 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.
    • 3/5
      Not extraordinary, but an enjoyable, quick read
    • 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."
    • 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.
    • 2/5
      Not up to par! Needs an editor. Story not very plausible. Not up to Elvis Cole series.
    • 5/5
      Why havent we seen pike and cole on a screen yet