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L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole's assignment is to find out their biological history and report back. It seems all too clear cut. But when he gets to Louisiana and begins his search, he finds out there's something much darker going on. Other people are also looking for Taylor's parents; and some are ending up dead. And when Cole realizes that his employer knew more than she was telling, Voodoo River becomes a twisting tale of identity, secrets, and murder.
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Robert Crais is the 2006 recipient of the Ross Macdonald Literary Award. He is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including The Two Minute Rule, The Forgotten Man, and L.A. Requiem.
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Perhaps it's the abridgment; VOODOO RIVER comes across as a novel with an inexplicable title, and gaps in plot and character development. Robert Crais's book tells of L.A. Private Investigator Elvis Cole's search for the biological parents of television star Jodie Taylor. The plot jumps around, as does Cole, who travels from L.A. to Louisiana and finds himself in the middle of a ring of illegal alien smugglers. The story then defies any logic when Cole and partner Joe Pike take on the smugglers, just because they want to. Patrick G. Lawlor keeps the story moving, but he seems confounded by the book's meandering. Lawlor is best during scenes with Taylor's mother and the town sheriff. Unfortunately, like the listener, he still has to read the other scenes. D.J.S. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherThorndike Press and Chivers Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0754017540
- ISBN 13 9780754017547
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages456
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good (ex-library). Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Large Print. Hardcover. 456 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Chivers Press, UK, 2002. Large Print. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good (ex-library) condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Corners of boards are lightly bumped. Spine has minor lean. Dust jacket has light creasing. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Edges of pages are slightly foxed. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Hired to uncover the past of Jodi Taylor, an actress in a hit TV show, Elvis leaves his native Los Angeles to head for Louisiana in search of Jodi's biological parents. But before he can tackle the mystery of the actress's background, he is up against a whole host of eccentrics, including a crazed Raid spraying housewife, a Cajun thug who looks like he's been made out of spare parts, and a menacing hundred year old river turtle named Luther. As Elvis learns about the enigmatic actress's origins, he also discovers the real reason he's been sent to Louisiana . *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; ISBN: 0754017540. ISBN/EAN: 9780754017547. Inventory No: 24010028. Seller Inventory # 24010028
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