por: Robert Crais
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9788466606318
ISBN: 8466606319
Etiqueta: Ediciones B
Fabricante: Ediciones B
Cantidad de Medios: 1
Número de Páginas: 416
Fecha de Publicación: Diciembre 30, 2006
Editor: Ediciones B
Estudio: Ediciones B
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Revisión Editorial:
Amazon.com Review:
More than 10 years ago, I was shocked to learn that some puerile piece of fluff had won the Edgar for Best Paperback Original, when it was so obvious to me and virtually everyone else in the Western Hemisphere that the award should have gone to The Monkey's Raincoat, the book that introduced Elvis Cole, private eye, and is to this day one of the funniest books I've ever read.
The terrific Elvis Cole series has grown through the years, each book better than the last, but nothing prepared me for the quantum leap (yes, it's a cliché, but it belongs here) that Crais has made with L.A. Requiem. It's not as funny as the other books in the series, but it's a beautifully plotted detective story, rich with police procedure, and it will keep even the most sophisticated reader at sea right until the end. And that's what elevates this book to the level of literature.
This one is more about Joe Pike, Elvis's silent sidekick, than it is about Elvis. We learn, through Pike's own eyes, how his childhood made him the way he is today. It's also about a friendship so strong that it threatens Elvis's relationship with his beloved Lucy. It is a tender but dark book--a serial killer book--but it doesn't attempt to outgross the other serial killer books on the shelf. It is funny at times and chilling at other times, making it one of the rare books that can't help but linger in the memory long after it's been read and put away. --Otto Penzler
Product Description:
The day starts like any other in Los Angeles with the sun burning hot as the Santa Ana winds blow. But for private investigator Joe Pike, the city will never be the same again. His ex-lover, Karen Garcia, has been brutally murdered with a gunshot to the head, and her powerful father has called on Pike and his partner, Elvis Cole, to keep an eye on the LAPD's investigation. In the City of Angels everyone has secrets, and what starts as procedural hand-holding turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Evaluación Promedio: 
Evaluación:
- Glad to find me a new AutherThia is my 3rd book of Robert Crais, and I liked that one as well. So added him to my favorite writers, which means another one to collect his books.
I usually like the CIA-FBI type of book, wnd was glad to see some police good ones here.
Evaluación:
- Good, Kept Me EngagedI didn't (need to) skip any pages whilst reading this as I have tended to with the other books I have struggled to finish recently. Thanks to the author for restoring an old delight! I am tempted to look up some of his other more popular books in the same series.
P.S. Good for Joe for imparting Daryl a much-deserved lesson.
Evaluación:
- L.A. Requiem - A page-turnerThis is the first Robert Crais book I've read, but now I want to read all of them! What a page-turner with great characters and a complex mystery that kept me guessing and enthralled. Great dialogue and a sense of place that almost becomes a character, L.A. Requiem offers an investigative team who are perfect foils for each other, one light, one dark. I stayed up long into the night to finish reading this. I had to know whodunnit and how everything would shake out at the end. Well paced and with superb character crafting.
One little beef. One secondary character had the last name Chen and another had the last name Chenier.
Evaluación:
- An uneven book, periods of excellence and of mediocrityThis was my first Crais novel. I'm not sure there will be a second.
Don't get me wrong. I didn't dislike this book at all. Parts of it riveted me. One personality (Joe's) was fleshed out beautifully. But the cardboard police figures, the silly one-line summations of tense or tragic situations by Elvis and the insufficient development of the personality of the criminal were drawbacks in what could have been a truly ingenious book.
There's a lot of potential here (whence 3 stars): maybe someone will comment to let me know if this potential was realized in future Cole/Pike novels.
Evaluación:
- For Crais' sake!Robert, I must tell you that page after page in italics is somewhat like mixing stripes with plaids, only much worse.
Forget about Pike's childhood. A psychologist, you ain't.
You embarrass yourself when you try to delve into the Mexican mystique. You are from LA, not L.A.
