Robert Crais

Chasing Darkness Robert Crais

Publisher Marketing: 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, in his lap a photo album of seven brutally murdered young women. 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. 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? 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." Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2008 pg. 573 (EAN 9781597227711, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2008 pg. 573 (EAN 9781423344377, Compact Disc) Publishers Weekly 08/25/2008 pg. 68 (EAN 9781423344377, Compact Disc) Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/15/2008 pg. 50 (EAN 9780743281645, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 05/19/2008 pg. 31 (EAN 9780743281645, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2008 pg. 573 (EAN 9780743281645, Hardcover) Booklist 06/01/2008 pg. 5 (EAN 9780743281645, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 07/13/2008 pg. 26 (EAN 9780743281645, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 07/24/2008 pg. 77 (EAN 9780743281645, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2009 pg. 23 (EAN 9780743281645, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 133 (EAN 9780743281645, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 175 (EAN 9780743281645, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Crais, Robert Robert Crais is the 2006 recipient of the Ross Macdonald Literary Award. He is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including The Two Minute Rule, The Forgotten Man, and L. A. Requiem.