Sunset Express

Name: Sunset Express
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.04 (24 reviews)
Author: Robert Crais
ISBN: 9781423313939

Author: Robert Crais

Series: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel #6

Narrator: David Stuart

Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 11/25/2006

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

When a wealthy entrepreneur is accused of murder in Los Angeles, wisecracking private eye Elvis Cole is hired to prove that the evidence was corrupted and becomes suspicious about the defense attorney's motivations.Prominent restaurateur Teddy Martin is facing charges in his wife's brutal murder. But he's not going down without spending a bundle of cash on his defense. So his hotshot attorney hires P.I. Elvis Cole to find proof that Detective Angela Rossi tampered with the evidence.Detective Rossi needs a way back to the fast track after falling hard during an internal investigation five years ago. But Cole needs to know if she's desperate enough to falsify the case against Martin in order to secure her own position.As Cole and his partner Joe Pike work their way through a tangle of witnesses and an even greater tangle of media, they begin to suspect that it's not the police who are behind the setup.The sixth book in the Elvis Cole series, Sunset Express is marked by Robert Crais's dark humor and edge-of-your-seat suspense.

About Robert Crais

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on March 04, 2012

This book has such an outlandish plot to it. Honestly, could anyone believe that a rich and famous person could possibly get away with murder by having a high priced legal team that obscures the facts by putting the police department on trial and manipulating the media to…. What’s that you say? O.J.......more

Goodreads review by Mike on April 12, 2022

2nd read - There's layer upon stinky onion layer of media and Southern California money in this story. Throw in a gazillion lawyers, Cole's love interest and her son in for a visit, and a cop who's under suspicion for planting evidence, and it's a fun ride. A hotshot restaurant king's wife has been k......more

Goodreads review by Tim on January 26, 2012

Excellent. This is the earliest in the Elvis Cole series which I have read. I loved it and it shows the basic foundation of the Elvis style and the Crais plotting which captured me in the later books with which I started. Now I need to continue backwards, because this is really a well-written, and p......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on January 26, 2025

I’m filling in the episodes I’ve missed as I’ve bounced my way around this series. I read Voodoo River last, a story in which Elvis Cole met a lady that I know features in a number of his future adventures. This time around he’s trying to work out whether the relationship will have any substantive f......more