Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel

Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel
by Robert Crais

Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel
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Author: Robert Crais
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-07-01
ISBN: 0743281640
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Book Reviews of Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel

Book Review: Could Elvis Cole Have Made A Serious Mistake?
Summary: 4 Stars

Unlike many others, I'll not compare this to other Elvis Cole novels. This was my first Robert Crais read so I'll let it stand on it's own.
Cole helped clear Lionel Byrd of murder in the past. Byrd is now found as a suicide case during an LA wildfire evacuation. Byrd also has very strong evidence he's been the executioner in 7 other murders. Elvis finds himself being propelled forward in the case, but has a nagging question of his making a very large mistake in judgement some time ago.
The story plays out. A sidekick of Joe Pike joins in. Pike adds relief so as not to make Cole a superhero doing it all on it's own.
Toward the end the story takes a nice little unexpected turn.
I found the book good & enjoyable; not great. I think Cole's character & Crais writing are worth getting involved in more of the author's works.

Summary of Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel

Elvis Cole is Back--In a Desperate Fight to Clear his Name...

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. But the gunshot victim is less gruesome than what they find in his lap: a photo album of seven brutally murdered young women -- one per year, for seven years. 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. Elvis was hailed as a hero.

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?

Shut out of the investigation by a special LAPD task force determined to close the case, 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.

Chasing Darkness is a blistering thriller from the bestselling author who sets the standard for intense, powerful crime writing.

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