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Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel (Elvis Cole Novels) (Elvis Cole) | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Crais
Creator: James Daniels
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 145915
Format: Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: MP3 Una
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1423344391
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781423344391
ASIN: 1423344391
Publication Date: July 1, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
It?s fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an apparent suicide,in his lap a photo album of seven brutally murdered young women. And when the suicide victim is identified as a former suspect in one of the murders, the news turns Elvis Cole?s world upside down.
Three years earlier Lionel Byrd was brought to trial for the murder of a female prostitute named Yvonne Bennett. A taped confession coerced by the police inspired a prominent defense attorney to take Byrd?s case, and Elvis Cole was hired to investigate. It was Cole?s eleventh-hour discovery of an exculpatory videotape that allowed Lionel Byrd to walk free. But the discovery of the death album in Byrd?s lap now brands Elvis as an unwitting accomplice to murder. Captured in photographs that could only have been taken by the murderer, Yvonne Bennett was the fifth of the seven victims ? two more young women were murdered after Lionel Byrd walked free. So Elvis can?t help but wonder ? did he, Elvis Cole, cost two more young women their lives?
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike desperately fight to uncover the truth about Lionel Byrd and his nightmare album of death ? a truth hidden by lies, politics, and corruption in a world where nothing is what it seems to be.
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 As Usual - Great Entertainment July 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Crais' Elvis Cole novels are always great entertainment and this one is no different. We now look forward to the next.
Crais, Elvis and Joe. The Tension Trio. July 22, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Once again Robert Crais ratchets up the tension. And fun. You gotta love a PI (Elvis Cole) who never loses his sense of humor even when he's about to lose a few teeth. I can't get enough of Joe Pike, either, the go-to man, the fixer, the when-all-else-fails sidekick. The pair gets the bad guy, but not without more than enough twists, turns, and obstacles to render the reader exhausted. Robert, write faster!
 disappointed July 21, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've been a Robert Crais fan since his first book because he made Elvis Cole and Pike such vivid, interesting characters. The plots were almost secondary, the books were interesting because of the main characters. In this book, however, the characters are as real as cardboard, and the plot isn't interesting enough to make up for it. I'm giving it 3 stars only out of affection for his previous books, if this was his first effort, I'd give it 2 stars. I'm hoping this book is only a temporary downturn in an otherwise fun series!
 Jump Suit Elvis July 20, 2008
This must be what it was like to see Elvis in Vegas in his later years. He's not the Elvis you expected, but you still like him because of his past. But in your heart of hearts you have to admit it was a big fat letdown.
Elvis Cole here has his whole allstar ensemble - Joe Pike, Carol Starkey, Lou Poitras, John Chen, Lucy phones in. The stage is set, but there's no antagonist, no real threat. So, for this Elvis it's just a matter of going through the motions.
So disappointing. Seems that there's a flabbiness, a lack of imagination. There's not a moment in the book when you think, how will he get out of this? Where's Joe, we need him now! Ohmygod, these bad guys really mean business!
Pike has nothing to do but stand around and look menacing. Starkey is all personality but contributes little. Chen isn't even very horny. And, Cole's life is threatened only once - but by amateurs who are just really mad at him.
Propped up by artificial urgency, the book includes a lot of running and driving around but with nothing much at stake. Then it ends with a fairly quiet whimper.
Crais is back! July 18, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Crais is back, in my humble opinion. I will say that I gave up on his work a while back. The stories and their touchy-feely relationships (I have enough of those with Robert B. Parker) with unintersting plots lost my interest...then on a whim at the library I picked up and read the first pages of THE WATCHMAN and was sucked right in and enjoyed it immensley.
I wondered if he would carry this on, and Crais does. In a mirror image of his last book, Pike is a mere guest character and that is fine with me as this allows Crais to flesh out Elvis and does so in a way that does not get mired down in romantic relationships. CHASING DARKNESS opens up well well with enough mystery, suspense, surpirse, etc. to keep the reader going. This was one of those thankful reads with which I slowed down near the conclusion as I did not want it to end. Frankly I had all but given up on this series, and the author after a few unsatisfying books, but after Pike in The Watcman and Cole here in CHASING DARKNESS...I am happy to repeat - Crais is back to form!
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