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Bezig met laden... Eerherstel (1999)door Robert Crais
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Interesting look into Joe Pike's past. Also this is why I hate reading books out of order, now the stuff that happens between Elvis and Lucy at the end of book 9 make a little more sense, even if I still don't really like it. Took way too long to write my review, but if you don't know by now that I love Elvis and Joe, you haven't been paying attention! ( ) You wouldn't know Pike and Cole are the good guys the way the Robbery-Homocide cops, particularly, 'Pants' Krantz treat them. L.A. Requiem is a quick,'tough male' type mystery set in Los Angeles. Crais has a hard time with female characters; making them a combination of smart, tough, angry, sexy. Women seem to exist simply to provide sex or to be manipulated and disrespected by men. Frustrating. Plot was weak. Fieldnotes: Laurel Canyon, Contemporary (p.1999) 1 Wise-ass Private Detective 1 Taciturn Former Cop / Military Man 1 Missing Ex-Girlfriend 1 Rich Man Pulling Strings 1 Extremely Hostile Robbery/Homicide Detective 2 Doctored Reports 1 Serial Killer 1 Impostor 1 Hot Cop Stuck on Babysitting Duty 1 Girlfriend Who Moved Across the Country for an Immature Commitment-phobe Romantic Woes of the Protagonists' Own Making Flashbacks 1 Dead Former Partner 1 Chaste Mooncalf Lurve Misplaced Sense of Honor The Short Version I liked reading Pike's backstory flashbacks and wish we had gotten to actually work cases with him rather than just moon about with descriptions of his ice-blue eyes. Elvis Cole remains irritating, stuck in self-inflicted romantic woes because apparently everyone finds him so irresistible as to fall in love with him after 3 meetings (what??) and he doesn't know how to say no to this. I would watch this as a TV show (where I don't actually expect the motives to make sense since I just look to be entertained for 48 minutes). But as a book, I'm annoyed at the motivations not making a lick of sense and the clues that would have been necessary to play along being misleadingly obscured. Cuando una antigua amante de Pike aparece asesinada en las colinas de Hollywood, Joe y Elvis inician, a instancias del padre de la vÃctima, una investigación paralela a la de la policÃa, lo que levantará las suspicacias de los antiguos compañeros de Pike y acabará por enturbiar el asunto hasta lÃmites insospechados. A surprisingly thoughtful police thriller. While the plot itself wasn't particularly original or groundbreaking, the language and character development were. There is a particular subplot with the main character's girlfriend that could have been handled in a black and white/he's right she's wrong way that I was pleasantly surprised to find developed with nuance and heart. This was the first of the series I read (found it in a free library) but it will not be the last. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:“Terrific entertainment . . . A powerful portrait of Los Angeles in our time: swift, colorful, gripping, a real knockout.”—Dean Koontz The day starts like any other in L.A. The sun burns hot as the Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires to coat the glittering city. But for private investigator Joe Pike, the city will never be the same again. His ex-lover, Karen Garcia, is dead, brutally murdered with a gun shot to the head. Now Karen's powerful father calls on Pike (a former cop) and his partner, Elvis Cole, to keep an eye on the LAPD as they search for his daughter's killer—because in the luminous City of Angels, everyone has secrets, and even the mighty blue have something to hide. But what starts as a little procedural hand-holding turns into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. For a dark web of conspiracy threatens to destroy Pike and Cole's twelve-year friendship—if not their lives. And L.A. just might be singing their dirge. Praise for L.A. Requiem “One of the best crime novels I've ever read. Absolutely terrific!”—David Baldacci “Darker, denser, deeper, and more satisfying than anything he’s written before.”—The Denver Post “[A] whodunit with salsa and soul . . . [Crais] keeps his plot pounding along.”—People. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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