Description
The Last Detective, the ninth novel in Robert Crais’s Elvis Cole series, is a private-investigator crime thriller set in Los Angeles. When Elvis Cole’s girlfriend Lucy is away and her ten-year-old son Ben is staying with him, the boy disappears. The kidnappers are not interested in money. They want Cole to pay for something from his past, forcing him to confront a part of his history he has spent years avoiding.
With Joe Pike at his side and the LAPD involved in the search, Cole follows a trail that connects Ben’s disappearance to a long-buried secret. The personal stakes make this more than a straightforward detective case, and the investigation pushes Cole into increasingly dangerous territory. A good choice for readers who enjoy hard-boiled private investigators, Los Angeles crime fiction, fast-moving thrillers and series characters whose personal lives are as important as the cases they investigate.
