Chasing Darkness

by Robert Crais

Another Elvis Cole book, if you read this blog you may already know what a huge fan I am. I actually wanted the book store to open at midnight like they do for Harry Potter fans but alas, no such luck. I devoured it in a day and loved every minute of it but also despaired when I was finished, how long til the next one?, I wondered immediately. Elvis is surprised when a pair of police detectives show up at his office, even more surprised with the news they're bringing him. During a fire evacuation a corpse is stumbled upon by some police officers who are routinely knocking on doors. The dead man is clutching a graphic scrapbook of dead women, one of whom the dead man had been cleared of murdering years earlier, due to Elvis' detective work. Typically, he can't let the case be handled exclusively by police, he has a feeling the dead man will be a welcome scapegoat to pin the crime on when Elvis knows he was innocent of at least that murder. At odds with the dead woman's family, the cops who believed Elvis helped a guilty man grow free, he tries to get to the killer before the trail goes cold. I loved the book and now am still wondering...how long until the next one?