Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel

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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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Cole doesn't believe that he helped a guilty man go free, but feels compelled to find the truth.I've read an Elvis Cole novel previously, so I'm up to speed on whom the characters are. During a fire evacuation in Los Angeles, police stumble upon the body of Lionel Byrd. In this installment, Elvis Cole is forced to re-examine a series of murders when the suspect found was helped freed by Cole years earlier. Crais used to inject more humor into his novels, but this is still a solid thriller. It is an apparent suicide, but at his feet is a photo album of seven girls brutally murdered. Years ago, Cole helped Byrd go free for Debra Repko's murder because at the time of the murder, Cole found a videotape showing Byrd at a bar. There were enough twists and turns to keep me sufficiently interested, and many characters were repeaters to bring a level of comfort and familiarity. I would definitely recommend it.

If you're a Robert Crais fan - you've already read this and it's excellent. As usual, Crais never disappoints.

In fact, it might be that I like this book so much is because Elvis Cole lives in the same city and the books are very similar. It's amazing that I never read any of his books before this one. I really liked it. I can't get enough of LA murder mysteries as I'm a great fan of Michael Connolly's Bush series. All in all, I enjoyed the setting, the mystery and the characters. It's your basic LA private eye mystery, but Crais is a good writer and the book flows smoothly.

He doesn't get mentioned by name, but if you're a Harry Bosch fan, you'll recognize him right away. I came across this by chance and decided to take a chance. In fact, Elvis Cole meets Harry Bosch at the Hollywood station in one chapter. It was easy to read and I like the characters. Medium paced, but the important thing was that the book was easy to follow and read. Elvis even lives in the same area, on the same road I think and has the same pet.

Since then, I've actually read 3 more and I've ordered 4 more in this series so I'm a definite fan.

Byrd couldn't have done it, but who set him up and murdered him.Doubt begins to plague Elvis-what if he made a mistake and Byrd was the killer. A fire in Laurel Canyon brings about a grisly discovery of the body of a man accused of being a serial killer. Cole determines to find the truth.It's another great story from Robert Crais. Although acquitted the pall of suspicion continued to haunt Lionel Byrd.A photo album with the murder victims is found by Lionel's body and it looks as if he was guilty after all. Elvis Cole becomes suspicious, because he's the one who checked out Byrd's alibi for one of the murders. Well plotted as usual and it kept me turning the pages trying to figure out who the serial killer was. So far his stories haven't disappointed me; they've only made me want to read more of his work.

This is a book that gets better as it goes along. Cole and Pike start to pull on some loose threads and soon they have more trouble than they bargained for.This one is not as good as other Cole novels such as The Last Detective (which was so good that I pulled the cassette from my car in the garage and literally ran to the tape player in the house to see how one scene was going to end).

Solid, quirky, oftentimes funny, good detective stories throughout.Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner Joe Pike are on a dark, depressing case this time. Unabridged audiobook6 discs7 hours Read by James Daniels.In my mind, Robert Crais has the second best series in fiction going right now, just after Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series (his latest is Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch).

Cole is sure that his work in the original case is correct and this man is being set up after his death and the real murderer is still wandering the streets. Three years earlier Cole had proven that a man could not have committed a horrific murder.

Now, that man is found dead with evidence that he committed not only that murder but 6 others. This one starts out rather slowly but it builds to an ending filled with twists and turns followed by even more twists and turns.

Highly recommended.