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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.

Average Rating:

Rating: - Another great book
This is another great book in the sreies. you dont need to start with the first book. Worth your money

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Rating: - Who green-lighted this copy&pasted prosaic plot and high-school writing?
This is my first [not quite sure how it won't be my last] read of Robert Crais. I was given the understanding that his books are relatively decent, so I went in quite optimistically (I've been looking for a new writer, as I have re-read Stephen King's books as much as I can for the time being, gone through the merry-go-round with Lawrence Block, and each of Lee Child's Reacher... and with Reacher, despite each book having essentially the same plot, I'm entertained. I didn't even have a problem with 'Nothing to Lose', as a number of people have).

But I don't understand someone can go through Chasing Darkness, which may have started decently, but switched to a plot outline dragged straight out of a high-school writing class.
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Rating: - Elvis Has Come Back in the Building
Robert Crais has returned to Elvis Cole in this novel set in the Los Angeles area. Elvis is a private investigator who is draw into working on a suicide in the famous Laurel Canyon area of L.A. CHASING DARKNESS starts in like a Harry Bosch police procedural thriller. Which is okay, because I like Michael Connelly's protagonist almost as much as Elvis and his partner Joe Pike. Harry and Elvis can be seen rubbing shoulders, or at least bumping elbows, in at least one Crais novel.

This one is a little darker than most, and the bad guy, a serial killer of young women, really is evil. The powers that be want Elvis to drop his investigation. Case closed. But Elvis being Elvis can't leave it alone, and resorts to a little B&E, a ... Read More:

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Rating: - Elvis Cole Makes Mistakes?
Could Elvis Cole have made a mistake? Three years before, he had found evidence to clear Lionel Byrd of a murder charge. Now Byrd has committed suicide, leaving at his feet evidence of seven murders. Cole doesn't believe it, but everyone accepts the new evidence, especially the police, from the deputy chief down to various detectives. So what does the redoubtable Elvis do? Conduct his own investigation parallel to an ongoing official inquiry, stepping on everyone's toes.

Of course, being blamed for letting a serial killer go free has its price. The brothers of one of the victims take their frustration out on Elvis--but that doesn't stop him, or his buddy Joe Pike. In the course of his investigation, Elvis trips over all kinds ... Read More:

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Rating: - Typical Robert Crais Good Book
My wife and I have read all of Robert Crais's books, and were delighted to see this one come out. It is a typical book by this author-----dramatic, suspenseful, stretches credibility a little, but still a good, engrossing read.