title: L. A. Requiem (Elvis Cole)
author:  Robert Crais 
description: One of the best crime novels I've ever read. Absolutely terrific!<b>David Baldacci</b><br /><br />Terrific entertainment . . . A powerful portrait of Los Angeles in our time: swift, colorful, gripping, a real knockout.<b>Dean Koontz<br /></b><br />Darker, denser, deeper, and more satisfying than anything hes written before.<b><i>The Denver Post</i><br /></b><br />[A] whodunit with salsa and soul . . . [Crais] keeps his plot pounding along.<b><i>People</i></b>
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  > > Crais, Robert - Elvis Cole 08
  
    
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  2010
  
  
  
  
  
  La Requiem
  
  Elvis Cole 08
  
  Robert
  
  
  Crais
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Islander Palms Motel
  
  Uniformed LAPD Officer Joe Pike could hear the banda music even with the
  engine idling, the a.c. jacked to meat locker, and the two-way crackling
  callout codes to other units.
  
  The covey of Latina street kids clumped outside the arcade giggled at him,
  whispering things to each other that made them flush. Squat brown men come up
  through the fence from Zacatecas milled on the sidewalk, shielding their eyes
  from the sun as veteranos told them about Sawtelle over on the Westside where
  they could find day labor jobs, thirty dollars cash, no papers required. Here
  in Rampart Division south of Sunset, Guatemalans and Nicaraguans simmered with
  Salvadorans and Mexican nationals in a sidewalk machaca that left the air
  flavored with epizote, even here within the sour cage of the radio car.
  
  Pike watched the street kids part like water when