After alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is apprehended and locked away in a mental facility private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's lawyer--an old friend of Sean King--to look into the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins: while en route to their first meeting with the lawyer, King and Maxwell discover his dead body. It is up to King and Maxwell to uncover the truth: is Roy a killer or not?
The book is based on a ridiculous premise of "the wall" so that although most of it is quite believable, the wall blows any credibility out of the water. Still, it was a good read.
Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts
Friday, 6 May 2011
The fifth witness by Michael Connelly
A Lincoln lawyer story where he is defending a young woman accused of murdering a bank employee who she was dealing with re the reposession of her house.
Another hit from Connely with twists at each point.
Oh and btw, The Lincoln lawyer gets a proper office :-0 Whatever next?
Another hit from Connely with twists at each point.
Oh and btw, The Lincoln lawyer gets a proper office :-0 Whatever next?
City and the City by China Mieville
Excellent book. Can't quite decide what category it should be placed in, does it belong in crime or Fantasy? The story is impressive and I do not want to describe it in any way as I think it takes away from the enjoyment of this particular book. It takes a while to figure out what is going on and I think part of the charm of the book is the slow dawning of understanding.
certainly one of his best works. China is getting better and better.
certainly one of his best works. China is getting better and better.
Thursday, 3 March 2011
One shot by Lee child
I have overdosed on Lee Child this last week, but I like his writting. Hard to put down. This is another Jack reacher book and I feel that in the last four books that I read JR is definetely more macho and show off-ish then in the more recent books. Am I right or is it my imagination?
Anyway, in this book, JR drops everything in Miami to come to Indiana and make sure that a former army sniper accused of killing 5 people in the rush hour goes down. But of course this is JR. things are not what they seem and he of course sorts everythnig out.
and here is the official review:
Jack Reacher is working on his tan with a Norwegian blonde on the beach in Miami. The weather is hot and he is so cool you could skate on him. But he doesn't like to stick around. He likes to be on the move. He was in the machine his whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat him out. Now he takes it easy. He's not looking for trouble. But sometimes trouble looks for Reacher.
A lone gunman hides in a parking garage and shoots into a crowd in a public plaza in a small Indiana city. Five random people die in a senseless massacre. The shooter leaves a perfect trail behind him and the police quickly track him down. His name is James Barr. It's a watertight case. After his arrest, James Barr refuses to talk. Then, to his lawyer, he utters a single phrase: "Get Jack Reacher for me." But Reacher's already on his way. What could connect this obvious psychopath with our wandering ex-army cop?
By the time Reacher hits town, Barr's been beaten badly enough to forget everything about the day in question. So Reacher begins to piece together the wealth of evidence; he does the math and comes to a few conclusions of his own.
Anyway, in this book, JR drops everything in Miami to come to Indiana and make sure that a former army sniper accused of killing 5 people in the rush hour goes down. But of course this is JR. things are not what they seem and he of course sorts everythnig out.
and here is the official review:
Jack Reacher is working on his tan with a Norwegian blonde on the beach in Miami. The weather is hot and he is so cool you could skate on him. But he doesn't like to stick around. He likes to be on the move. He was in the machine his whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat him out. Now he takes it easy. He's not looking for trouble. But sometimes trouble looks for Reacher.
A lone gunman hides in a parking garage and shoots into a crowd in a public plaza in a small Indiana city. Five random people die in a senseless massacre. The shooter leaves a perfect trail behind him and the police quickly track him down. His name is James Barr. It's a watertight case. After his arrest, James Barr refuses to talk. Then, to his lawyer, he utters a single phrase: "Get Jack Reacher for me." But Reacher's already on his way. What could connect this obvious psychopath with our wandering ex-army cop?
By the time Reacher hits town, Barr's been beaten badly enough to forget everything about the day in question. So Reacher begins to piece together the wealth of evidence; he does the math and comes to a few conclusions of his own.
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Echo burning by Lee Child
Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. In temperatures of over a hundred degrees, you're lucky if a driver will open the door of his air-conditioned car long enough to let you slide in. That's Jack Reacher's conclusion. He's adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and he needs to keep moving through the wide open vastness, like a shark in the water. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up.
He never expected it to be somebody like Carmen. She's alone, driving a Cadillac. She's beautiful, young and rich. She has a little girl who is being watched by unseen observers. And a husband who is in jail. Who will beat her senseless when he comes out. If he doesn't kill her first.
Reacher is no stranger to trouble. And at Carmen's remote ranch in Echo County there is plenty of it: lies and prejudice, hatred and murder. Reacher can never resist a lady in distress. Her family is hostile. The cops can't be trusted. The lawyers won't help. If Reacher can't set things straight, who can?
He never expected it to be somebody like Carmen. She's alone, driving a Cadillac. She's beautiful, young and rich. She has a little girl who is being watched by unseen observers. And a husband who is in jail. Who will beat her senseless when he comes out. If he doesn't kill her first.
Reacher is no stranger to trouble. And at Carmen's remote ranch in Echo County there is plenty of it: lies and prejudice, hatred and murder. Reacher can never resist a lady in distress. Her family is hostile. The cops can't be trusted. The lawyers won't help. If Reacher can't set things straight, who can?
Sunday, 9 January 2011
The reversal by Michael Connelly
A book featuring both the Lincoln lawyer and Harry Bosch.
Mickey Haller, who has become increasingly frustrated in his role as a defense lawyer, agrees to undertake the prosecution role on behalf of the city of Los Angeles, in the retrial of a convicted killer which has been granted as a result of new DNA evidence. His one condition before accepting the task is that he is permitted to choose his own team; he chooses his ex-wife Maggie McPherson as his co-prosecutor, and his half-brother Harry Bosch as his investigator from the LAPD. The prosecution case rests largely on the testimony of Sarah Gleason, the elder sister of the victim, Melissa Landy.
The body of 12-year-old Melissa was discovered in 1986, discarded in a dumpster, only a few hours after she was reported missing. Unknown to the killer, her sister had been hiding in the garden and had witnessed her abduction. On the day of the murder, she identified Jason Jessup, a lorry driver, as the man who snatched Melissa from the garden. DNA evidence has subsequently shown that semen stains on the dress Melissa was wearing came not from Jessup, but from the girls' stepfather Ken Landy. However, the evidence against Jessup includes strands of Melissa's hair, found in the seat of his lorry.
Jessup's defense counsel, "clever" Clive Royce, mounts a media campaign in his client's favour, and it becomes clear that their main motivation is in obtaining a compensation payout from the state. Haller's response is to allow bail and have Jessup tailed by the police in the hope that he will return to his old ways and provide additional support for the prosecution case. Jessup is soon seen visiting various mountain trails in the Mulholland area, and on one occasion parks his car outside Bosch's house at night. Bosch and Haller, both concerned for their own teenage daughters, develop a theory that Jessup has killed before, but are unable to investigate fully for fear of blowing the police's cover.
Legal procedures require that the jury is kept ignorant of Jessup's history. Testimony given in the original trial, where the witness is no longer available because of death or informity, has to be read out by Harry Bosch. The defense attempts to undermine the testimmony of Sarah Gleason, who has a history of drug use and prostitution in the years since her sister's murder, though she has now been entirely rehabilitated. Bosch traces Sarah's former lover, Eddie Roman, and finds that he is still living off prostitute's earnings. Locating the prostitute Sonia Reyes, Bosch persuades her to enter the courtroom at a crucial moment in Roman's testimony, which causes the witness to alter his testimony, effectively destroying the defense case.
While anticipating a plea bargain from the defense team, Bosch and Haller hear that Jessup has entered Royce's offices with a gun and has killed Royce, two of his team and a policeman who was on his tail. Jessup is now at large and the police surround him at a hideout under the pier which had been discovered by Bosch as a result of the police surveillance activities. Jessup's death ends the search for Melissa Landy's killer, but leaves the prosecution team with a host of unanswered moral questions.
Saturday, 24 July 2010
Killing floor by Lee Child
Welcome to Margrave, Georgia—but don't get too attached to the townsfolk, who are either in on a giant conspiracy, or hurtling toward violent deaths, or both.
There's not much of a welcome for Jack Reacher, a casualty of the Army's peace dividend who's drifted into town idly looking for traces of a long dead black jazzman. Not only do the local cops arrest him for murder, but the chief of police turns eyewitness to place him on the scene, even though Reacher was getting on a bus in Tampa at the time. Two surprises follow: The murdered man wasn't the only victim, and he was Reacher's brother whom he hadn't seen in seven years. So Reacher, who so far hasn't had anything personal against the crooks who set him up for a weekend in the state pen at Warburton, clicks into overdrive.
Banking on the help of the only two people in Margrave he can trust—a Harvard-educated chief of detectives who hasn't been on the job long enough to be on the take, and a smart, scrappy officer who's taken him to her bed— he sets out methodically in his brother's footsteps, trying to figure out why his cellmate in Warburton, a panicky banker whose cell-phone number turned up in Joe's shoe, confessed to a murder he obviously didn't commit; trying to figure out why all the out-of-towners on Joe's list of recent contacts were as dead as he was; and trying to stop the local carnage or at least direct it in more positive ways. Though the testosterone flows as freely as printer's ink, Reacher is an unobtrusively sharp detective in his quieter moments—not that there are many of them to judge by.
Despite the crude, tough-naïf narration, debut novelist Child serves up a big, rangy plot, menace as palpable as a ticking bomb, and enough battered corpses to make an undertaker grin.
this was the first book by Lee Child.
There's not much of a welcome for Jack Reacher, a casualty of the Army's peace dividend who's drifted into town idly looking for traces of a long dead black jazzman. Not only do the local cops arrest him for murder, but the chief of police turns eyewitness to place him on the scene, even though Reacher was getting on a bus in Tampa at the time. Two surprises follow: The murdered man wasn't the only victim, and he was Reacher's brother whom he hadn't seen in seven years. So Reacher, who so far hasn't had anything personal against the crooks who set him up for a weekend in the state pen at Warburton, clicks into overdrive.
Banking on the help of the only two people in Margrave he can trust—a Harvard-educated chief of detectives who hasn't been on the job long enough to be on the take, and a smart, scrappy officer who's taken him to her bed— he sets out methodically in his brother's footsteps, trying to figure out why his cellmate in Warburton, a panicky banker whose cell-phone number turned up in Joe's shoe, confessed to a murder he obviously didn't commit; trying to figure out why all the out-of-towners on Joe's list of recent contacts were as dead as he was; and trying to stop the local carnage or at least direct it in more positive ways. Though the testosterone flows as freely as printer's ink, Reacher is an unobtrusively sharp detective in his quieter moments—not that there are many of them to judge by.
Despite the crude, tough-naïf narration, debut novelist Child serves up a big, rangy plot, menace as palpable as a ticking bomb, and enough battered corpses to make an undertaker grin.
this was the first book by Lee Child.
Saturday, 24 April 2010
61 hours by Lee Child
A savage snowstorm and a tour bus crash land Reacher in the middle of South Dakota—unprepared. For the snow, that is. But he’s ready, as only he can be, to risk his life to protect a courageous witness. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she needs his help. There's a killer headed straight for her and he'll be in town soon...or maybe he’s already there...
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Gone tomorrow by Lee Child
Up close and personal. When Jack Reacher witnesses a suicide on a Manhattan subway, he knows that there is more than meets the eye. Soon he's in deep, trying to unearth a dark secret for which both the feds and Al-Queda are willing to kill to keep from being revealed. Even in a city of eight million, a lone wolf like Reacher tends to stand out, and before long he is being hunted from all sides—which is exactly what Reacher wants.
This was the first Lee Child bok that I read and I do find him an easy but gripping read.
This was the first Lee Child bok that I read and I do find him an easy but gripping read.
Saturday, 3 January 2009
Divine Justice by David Baldacci
This novel opens where Stone Cold ends, just after Oliver Stone
has assassinated Carter Gray, head of the CIA, and Roger Simpson, who
had raised Stone's daughter after his wife was murdered. Both men had
conspired to ruin Stone's life and force him underground courtesy of a
fake grave at Arlington National Cemetery. It was a righteous kill
within the world of the series. He is headed to New Orleans on Amtrak,
leaving his friends in the dark as to his destination, when a young man
on the train is attacked by three hoodlums. Stone rescues the young
man, but they have to leave the train. He accompanies the man to
Divine, which at first seems to be a good place to hide.
has assassinated Carter Gray, head of the CIA, and Roger Simpson, who
had raised Stone's daughter after his wife was murdered. Both men had
conspired to ruin Stone's life and force him underground courtesy of a
fake grave at Arlington National Cemetery. It was a righteous kill
within the world of the series. He is headed to New Orleans on Amtrak,
leaving his friends in the dark as to his destination, when a young man
on the train is attacked by three hoodlums. Stone rescues the young
man, but they have to leave the train. He accompanies the man to
Divine, which at first seems to be a good place to hide.
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Exit music by Ian Rankin
The last case for Inspector Rankin before he heads off to retirement, yeah right! In this book he is chasing the murderer of a Russian poet who has been found dead in a park. As always with Rankin, a very unpredictable ending and a griping story till the end. I did feel a more then a little sad at his retirement and especially the way it was done, but then I am a sentimental old so and so.
Monday, 19 May 2008
The Watchman by Robert Crais
In Joe Pike, "the world's greatest detective's" enigmatic and stoically
violent sidekick of the "Elvis Cole" novels, the talented Robert Crais
has created one of most intriguing characters in contemporary popular
fiction. But with the wisecracking Cole still mostly sidelined from
injuries suffered in "The Forgotten Man", Pike takes center stage in
this well plotted, fast moving crime drama.
With his red-arrowed forearms "going forward, never back", Pike, to
repay an old debt, reluctantly takes on the task of protecting Larkin
Barkley, a spoiled LA society brat drawn with shades of Paris Hilton,
right down to the rat-dog-in-the-purse detail. Returning home from late
night revelry, Barkley t-bones a Mercedes full of the wrong people, and
in a convoluted twist, ends up as a witness under protection. But when
it becomes clear that the folks who'd prefer that Barkley not testify
are deadly serious, Joe Pike gets the job of keeping the pouting
debutant safe and sound.
As always, Crais' prose is witty and fast moving. Joe Pike, who is
about as chatty as Mount Rushmore, is cleverly contrasted against
Larkin's tantrums. And Elvis Cole, while taking care not to swing the
spotlight too far away from Pike's solo debut, throws around enough of
his patented one-liners to keep his hardcore base smiling. But if the
bond that builds gradually between Joe and Barkley stretches the bounds
of credibility just a bit, this is, after all, fiction, and besides,
Crais does a masterful job of building the sexual tension and creating
- perish the thought - the hint of a soft side to Pike's impenetrable
persona.
violent sidekick of the "Elvis Cole" novels, the talented Robert Crais
has created one of most intriguing characters in contemporary popular
fiction. But with the wisecracking Cole still mostly sidelined from
injuries suffered in "The Forgotten Man", Pike takes center stage in
this well plotted, fast moving crime drama.
With his red-arrowed forearms "going forward, never back", Pike, to
repay an old debt, reluctantly takes on the task of protecting Larkin
Barkley, a spoiled LA society brat drawn with shades of Paris Hilton,
right down to the rat-dog-in-the-purse detail. Returning home from late
night revelry, Barkley t-bones a Mercedes full of the wrong people, and
in a convoluted twist, ends up as a witness under protection. But when
it becomes clear that the folks who'd prefer that Barkley not testify
are deadly serious, Joe Pike gets the job of keeping the pouting
debutant safe and sound.
As always, Crais' prose is witty and fast moving. Joe Pike, who is
about as chatty as Mount Rushmore, is cleverly contrasted against
Larkin's tantrums. And Elvis Cole, while taking care not to swing the
spotlight too far away from Pike's solo debut, throws around enough of
his patented one-liners to keep his hardcore base smiling. But if the
bond that builds gradually between Joe and Barkley stretches the bounds
of credibility just a bit, this is, after all, fiction, and besides,
Crais does a masterful job of building the sexual tension and creating
- perish the thought - the hint of a soft side to Pike's impenetrable
persona.
The paper Moon by Andreas Camilleri
This is the ninth in a series of Inspector Montalbano mysteries. Far be it
from me to give away the plot, but one criticism might be that the
guilty party is more obvious than usual. Nevertheless, Camilleri's
formula works. Montalbano goes about his investigation in his
idiosyncratic manner, taking time for culinary adventures, literary
allusions, and thoughts about women. Overall, reading the book is a
worthwhile and entertaining experience. However, He does seem to be getting more into women in this book and less into food...I am not sure wether to be happy or sad :-)
from me to give away the plot, but one criticism might be that the
guilty party is more obvious than usual. Nevertheless, Camilleri's
formula works. Montalbano goes about his investigation in his
idiosyncratic manner, taking time for culinary adventures, literary
allusions, and thoughts about women. Overall, reading the book is a
worthwhile and entertaining experience. However, He does seem to be getting more into women in this book and less into food...I am not sure wether to be happy or sad :-)
Monday, 28 April 2008
The two minute rule by Robert Crais
Two minutes, in and out, that's the rule for robbing banks in this
page-turning action ride around L.A. from bestseller Crais (Hostage).
Break that rule, and you can end up like Marchenko and Parsons, dying
in a violent shoot-out on the streets, the fortune from their string of
heists deeply hidden. Max Holman certainly knows the time limit better
than most. Dubbed the "hero bandit" by the press, he got caught during
a robbery after he stopped to perform CPR on a bank customer who had a
heart attack. About to leave prison on parole, the 48-year-old Max
hopes he can establish contact with the son he never really knew, now a
cop. When Max's son is murdered, suspected of being in a ring of dirty
cops seeking the Marchenko and Parsons loot, Max needs to know the
truth. The only person he figures can help him is Katherine Pollard,
the fed who nabbed him, who's now ex-FBI and a struggling single mom.
The perfect odd couple, they keep this novel personal and real as it
builds to an exciting twist on the bank-robbing rule.
page-turning action ride around L.A. from bestseller Crais (Hostage).
Break that rule, and you can end up like Marchenko and Parsons, dying
in a violent shoot-out on the streets, the fortune from their string of
heists deeply hidden. Max Holman certainly knows the time limit better
than most. Dubbed the "hero bandit" by the press, he got caught during
a robbery after he stopped to perform CPR on a bank customer who had a
heart attack. About to leave prison on parole, the 48-year-old Max
hopes he can establish contact with the son he never really knew, now a
cop. When Max's son is murdered, suspected of being in a ring of dirty
cops seeking the Marchenko and Parsons loot, Max needs to know the
truth. The only person he figures can help him is Katherine Pollard,
the fed who nabbed him, who's now ex-FBI and a struggling single mom.
The perfect odd couple, they keep this novel personal and real as it
builds to an exciting twist on the bank-robbing rule.
Sunday, 27 April 2008
Hostage by Robert Crais
The title of Crais's fiery third thriller (after L.A. Requiem and
Demolition Angel) can refer not just to the two sets of innocents held
at gunpoint in the story but to the reader, who will be wired tight to
the book. The novel launches with a familiar (as familiar as Demolition
Angel) premise: a soul-scarred cop here, former L.A. SWAT hostage
negotiator Jeff Talley, now chief of police of smalltown Bristo Bay,
Calif. plunges into an assignment that forces him to confront his
demons. The devil clawing Talley's brain is the dying gaze of a young
hostage he failed to save in L.A. Now three outlaws two lowlife
brothers and a homicidal maniac have, after botching a
robbery-homicide, taken refuge in a swank house in Bristo Bay. At their
mercy are the family's dad, whom they've knocked unconscious, and his
teen daughter and preteen son. The whopper of a complication is that
the dad serves as bookkeeper for Sonny Benza, West Coast mob kingpin,
and Benza will do whatever's necessary to retrieve the incriminatory
records secreted in the house before the cops storm the place. The
narrative ticks with suspense as Talley negotiates with the three
outlaws, and as they and the kids they're holding respond with panic,
fear and courage to the escalating tension. It snaps into overdrive as
Benza and his goons snatch Talley's wife and daughter, holding them
ransom for the records; the flow is marred only by a couple of cheap
turns obviously devised for the silver screen. Thriller vets will have
seen a lot of this before, but every virtuoso is allowed variations on
a theme, and Crais, with his record and with the smart suspense offered
here, has proven himself nothing less. (On-sale date: Aug. 7)Forecast:
Crais sells more with each title, and this will prove no exception. A
15-city author tour will enhance his visibility, as will forthcoming
film versions of Demolition Angel and of Hostage, which has already
been bought for Bruce Willis and MGM; Crais is writing the screenplays
for both films.
Demolition Angel) can refer not just to the two sets of innocents held
at gunpoint in the story but to the reader, who will be wired tight to
the book. The novel launches with a familiar (as familiar as Demolition
Angel) premise: a soul-scarred cop here, former L.A. SWAT hostage
negotiator Jeff Talley, now chief of police of smalltown Bristo Bay,
Calif. plunges into an assignment that forces him to confront his
demons. The devil clawing Talley's brain is the dying gaze of a young
hostage he failed to save in L.A. Now three outlaws two lowlife
brothers and a homicidal maniac have, after botching a
robbery-homicide, taken refuge in a swank house in Bristo Bay. At their
mercy are the family's dad, whom they've knocked unconscious, and his
teen daughter and preteen son. The whopper of a complication is that
the dad serves as bookkeeper for Sonny Benza, West Coast mob kingpin,
and Benza will do whatever's necessary to retrieve the incriminatory
records secreted in the house before the cops storm the place. The
narrative ticks with suspense as Talley negotiates with the three
outlaws, and as they and the kids they're holding respond with panic,
fear and courage to the escalating tension. It snaps into overdrive as
Benza and his goons snatch Talley's wife and daughter, holding them
ransom for the records; the flow is marred only by a couple of cheap
turns obviously devised for the silver screen. Thriller vets will have
seen a lot of this before, but every virtuoso is allowed variations on
a theme, and Crais, with his record and with the smart suspense offered
here, has proven himself nothing less. (On-sale date: Aug. 7)Forecast:
Crais sells more with each title, and this will prove no exception. A
15-city author tour will enhance his visibility, as will forthcoming
film versions of Demolition Angel and of Hostage, which has already
been bought for Bruce Willis and MGM; Crais is writing the screenplays
for both films.
The forgoten man by Robert Crais
The Forgotten Man opens with Elvis’s being awakened
from a fitful sleep in the middle of the night by a phone call from a
police officer who asks him to come downtown and identify the body of a
murder victim. The officer tells Elvis that just before the man died he
said that he was Elvis’s father and was looking for Elvis. Elvis had
never known his father and was not sure if his mother even knew his
father’s name. The police officer who discovered the body tells Elvis
that news clips about Elvis’s heroic rescue of Ben were found on the
dead man’s person.
from a fitful sleep in the middle of the night by a phone call from a
police officer who asks him to come downtown and identify the body of a
murder victim. The officer tells Elvis that just before the man died he
said that he was Elvis’s father and was looking for Elvis. Elvis had
never known his father and was not sure if his mother even knew his
father’s name. The police officer who discovered the body tells Elvis
that news clips about Elvis’s heroic rescue of Ben were found on the
dead man’s person.
Friday, 28 March 2008
Demolition angel by Robert Crais
Like many authors with ongoing characters, Robert Crais has taken a
break from his famous private eye. After eight novels featuring Elvis
Cole and his loyal sidekick Joe Pike, Crais has created Carol Starkey,
a bomb squad veteran now doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD's
Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the
detonation that killed Carol's partner and lover, but she is still
severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can't bear to look
in the mirror, and she hasn't been with another man since David
Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets
through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol.
very different from the Elvis Cole series, and very well written. A very enjoyable read.
break from his famous private eye. After eight novels featuring Elvis
Cole and his loyal sidekick Joe Pike, Crais has created Carol Starkey,
a bomb squad veteran now doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD's
Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the
detonation that killed Carol's partner and lover, but she is still
severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can't bear to look
in the mirror, and she hasn't been with another man since David
Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets
through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol.
very different from the Elvis Cole series, and very well written. A very enjoyable read.
Indigo slam by Robert Crais
Elvis resorts to warm-hearted patronizing when young Teresa "Teri"
Haines tows her snotty 12-year-old brother Charles and sweet
nine-year-old sister Winona into his West Los Angeles office. Teri
announces that her decision to hire Cole comes from her library
research of old newspaper articles that praised him. She located him
through his Yellow Pages ad and is ready to pay cash for his time.
Clark Haines, the kids' father, has been missing 11 days. Haines
travels often, and their mother died five years earlier in a traffic
accident, so the children are used to being on their own. But this
extended disappearance has them worried.
While Cole's immediate inclination is to report the Haines kids to
Children's Services, he is impressed by Teri and agrees to consider the
job.
I have tried to read these books in sequence and I must say, although you could read them in any order and still enjoy them, some of the jokes are more apparent when read in sequence for example I love the old man at the airport that crops up in a coupl eof the books. The feeling of deja vu that Elvis experiences is similar to a reader that has read the books over a longer period of time, and would be missed if read in the wrong order.
Haines tows her snotty 12-year-old brother Charles and sweet
nine-year-old sister Winona into his West Los Angeles office. Teri
announces that her decision to hire Cole comes from her library
research of old newspaper articles that praised him. She located him
through his Yellow Pages ad and is ready to pay cash for his time.
Clark Haines, the kids' father, has been missing 11 days. Haines
travels often, and their mother died five years earlier in a traffic
accident, so the children are used to being on their own. But this
extended disappearance has them worried.
While Cole's immediate inclination is to report the Haines kids to
Children's Services, he is impressed by Teri and agrees to consider the
job.
I have tried to read these books in sequence and I must say, although you could read them in any order and still enjoy them, some of the jokes are more apparent when read in sequence for example I love the old man at the airport that crops up in a coupl eof the books. The feeling of deja vu that Elvis experiences is similar to a reader that has read the books over a longer period of time, and would be missed if read in the wrong order.
Sunday, 16 March 2008
Sunset Express by Robert Crais
When a wealthy LA restaurateur is arrested for killing his wife, his dream defense team hires PI Elvis Cole to investigate. The defense claims that Police Officer Angela Rossi planted the murder weapon at the scene. The evidence Elvis finds seems to support that theory until his doubts begin to mount and he digs deeper to find the truth with the help of his sidekick Joe Pike and his visiting friend, Louisiana attorney Lucy Chenier. Mystery fans will appreciate the writing, action, and distinctive supporting characters which highlight the vivid California setting with just the right amount of LA cool.
Friday, 14 March 2008
Voodoo River by Robert Crais
Los Angeles private eye Elvis Cole is hired by a famous television star
to find her biological parents, and is drawn into a frightening web of
deceit and danger when he discovers that the long-ago adoption was kept
secret for a very good reason.
I am really going through his books at a fair pace at the moment, and I must say, they are getting better and better. As I write this I am reading Sunset Express, the next in the series, and I *need* to order some more for the Easter break or I will be climbing the wall.
to find her biological parents, and is drawn into a frightening web of
deceit and danger when he discovers that the long-ago adoption was kept
secret for a very good reason.
I am really going through his books at a fair pace at the moment, and I must say, they are getting better and better. As I write this I am reading Sunset Express, the next in the series, and I *need* to order some more for the Easter break or I will be climbing the wall.
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