L.A. Requiem

L.A. Requiem by Crais, Robert. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780385495837.

Los Angeles is a city of perpetual reinvention. Inviting, with a promise of infinite hope, it can also be a glittering landscape of debilitating isolation. The citys lost souls take comfort in its promise--the notion that tomorrow could be the day to start all over again, to transform oneself into someone else. Someone more powerful, more beautiful, more daring. At the core of L.A. Requiem is Joe Pike, a former cop with a past as dark and foreboding as his demeanor. His only stable relationship is with his partner of twelve years, Elvis Cole, a talented and quick-witted PI with skeletons in his own past. When Pikes former lover is found dead at a reservoir in the Hollywood Hills, the duo is brought in by the womans father to monitor the police investigation. But Pikes no stranger to the men and women in the LAPDs elite Robbery-Homicide Division, at least one of whom has been harboring a long-buried desire for revenge. With a rich cast of characters reminiscent of Raymond Chandlers classic The Long Goodbye, L.A. Requiem is the apotheosis of Craiss writing career--a gripping novel that envelops Cole and Pike in an ever-tightening web of conspiracies, secrets, and mortal passions that threatens to destroy their friendship, and leave one, or both, dead.