

Voodoo River
Author: Robert Crais
Narrator: Mel Foster
Unabridged: 9 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 07/04/2008
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Author: Robert Crais
Narrator: Mel Foster
Unabridged: 9 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 07/04/2008
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
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.
Voodoo River (1995) was the fifth book in the Elvis Cole series, and having begun to reread the books in order, I would argue that this was the best in the series up to that point. As the book opens, Elvis is hired by a famous television star named Jodie Taylor. Taylor's mother gave her up at birth......more
Elvis Cole - Cajun style! Jodi Taylor is an actress starring on a hit TV show who was adopted. She hires Elvis to track down her birth parents but claims she just wants her medical history. Elvis journeys to Louisiana, but what seems like a routine case soon turns into a tangled mess of blackmail and......more
2nd read - Enjoyable Crais story, with Elvis in the middle of the Hollywood elite and their lies, and the Louisiana smuggling of illegal immigrants. A blossoming love story starts with Lucy, a beautiful, smart lawyer with a son, who is Elvis' liaison down South. Thankfully, he has Pike to drolly pul......more
Private Investigator Elvis Cole’s fifth outing is reputed to be one of Crais’ best. Ostensibly about a search for the medical history of a popular TV actress who was adopted as a child, once in her home state of Louisiana Cole finds things are more complicated than expected. The process of the untan......more