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Title: L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais ISBN: 0-345-43447-1 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (158 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: As Close to Perfect as Possible!
Comment: Judging by the other reviews of LA Requiem, I won't be able to add much more but another glowing review of one of the best detective novels that I've ever read.
I read this book a year or two ago and was simply blown away by it. I recently picked it up again and devoured it a second time in a few days. While I love Crais' earlier books, LA Requiem blows them all away. We still get the great lead character--Crais' Jim Rockford-like Elvis Cole--but we see a much deeper portrait of the man in this book. There is still some of the wise-cracking, but it is more subdued as Cole looks inward to a much greater extent.
As has been mentioned in other reviews, the book also offers much greater insights into Joe Pike. While we're not given an in-depth bio of Pike, we are shown enough to flesh out the character further, to care about him more. He's always been Cole's foil in the past, but he's been so enigmatic that you weren't sure who he was. Now he's flesh and blood and emotions. Crais has developed him beautifully into a multi-dimensional character.
This book is just wonderfully rich, from the straight mystery aspects of it to the complex relationships that Crais builds throughout. Along with Sara Paretsky, Robert Crais is one of my two favorite mystery authors. There is a real care given to their characters and it comes through in the writing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Pike Takes Center Stage
Comment:
"L.A. Requiem" is a tight, well-constructed novel with flashbacks that tie directly to the action. Fans of the Elvis Cole series may be surprised at the tone, but the novel is both entertaining and emotionally satisfying. Earlier books in the series have given glimpses of Joe Pike, ex-cop, more a phenomenon of natural science (Tornado? Avalanche?) than fully-fleshed character. Now Robert Crais gives Cole's sidekick center stage, complete with back-story, and the result is a fascinating, and ultimately touching read. How would a person like Pike come to be? I won't be giving anything away to note that someone so powerful and ordered must once have been helpless. Cole and Pike are incredibly appealing because Crais mixes tough street-smarts with a focused, almost naive sense of right and wrong. Early in the novel, Pike, the master of the short answer, explains that he wanted to become a cop because he "wanted to do good." I believed him and cheered. You're going to love these guys.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best in the Elvis Cole series
Comment: If you read any of the other books in the Elvis Cole series, you are sure to have questions about Joe Pike. This "mouth- twitching", "round the clock sunglass wearing" guy is an enigma wrapped in a riddle who leaves you wondering who the heck he is, and leary to find out.
Robert Crais takes you into Joe's past by skillfully maintaining two separate storylines that finally join the past and present Joe together in a climax that will not dissapoint!
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Title: The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais ISBN: 0553275852 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Free Fall by Robert Crais ISBN: 0553565095 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Stalking the Angel by Robert Crais ISBN: 0553286447 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Voodoo River by Robert Crais ISBN: 0786889055 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Lullaby Town by Robert Crais ISBN: 0553299514 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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