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Title: Lullaby Town by Robert Crais ISBN: 0-553-29951-4 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (36 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Getting better and better
Comment: If you have read other reviews of mine of Mr. Crais's books, you will know that I read his latest three books first (loved them) and then started with the Elvis Cole series at the beginning. I have not found the first two up to the standards the author now sets for himself, but I liked this book quite a lot. The wise cracking is eased off and Elvis gets himself involved in a situation that takes some doing to solve and it is done in a fairly believeable way. I hope that as the series progresses he continues to improve to the level of L.A. Requiem.
In this book Elvis has been hired by a big shot Hollywood producer to find his ex-wife and son as he thinks after 12 years it is time to be a Dad. Well, Mom and son have moved from LA to Chelam, Connecticutt. Mom has made a life for herself and son, Toby, without any help from the big shot and it is not wanted now.
However, Mom has this little problem of having been co-opted by the Mafia to do some money laundering (she is a branch bank manager) and while she would like to end the relationship, the Mafioso that has used her has other ideas.
Soon all of the characters are in the same vicinity and it takes all of Elvis's and Joe Pike's efforts to keep matters from dissolving into a large pool of blood. How they do it is the point of these easy reading novels and why we keep coming back for more.
Rating: 5
Summary: Must read by Crais
Comment: Elvis Cole is hired by a top new movie director to find his abandoned wife and child. Elvis finds her, but she is laundering money for the mob. Elvis has to do some quick moves to get her untangled from the Mafia. Crais is an excellent writer, his books are easy reads with few plot twists, he has'nt written a bad one yet. This book or Voodoo River is his best but, they are all very good.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fast-paced fun!
Comment: The comparisons to Spencer are obvious. Even the storyline here is familiar. But despite all that, the book is a fun, fast-paced, enjoyable crime novel. Cole is an easy-to-like wisecracking hero with a heart of gold. Pike is the cold, matter of fact, partner that you can always rely on. In this novel, Cole and Pike are hired by an egotistical and pompous movie director to locate his ex-wife and son. Finding her isn't much trouble, but then Cole decides to help her and learns that she is in a terrible predicament. Cole and Pike eventually run into the NY mob, and from there the story blisters towards a satisfying (and very violent) conclusion. I highly recommend this for fans of the hard-boiled PI genre.
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Title: The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais ISBN: 0553275852 Publisher: Crime Line Pub. Date: 01 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Voodoo River by Robert Crais ISBN: 0786889055 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Indigo Slam by Robert Crais ISBN: 0345435648 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais ISBN: 0345434471 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Demolition Angel by Robert Crais ISBN: 034543448X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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