Robert Crais - The Last Detective

Five stars. This is an all-time great.

After L.A. Requiem my hopes were running high for this follow-up. How could Crais possibly crank it up another notch? But he does. And just as with L.A. Requiem, I cried at the end. Bear in mind that Elvis Cole is one of my favourite fictional characters, and that I'm a romantic at heart. But even so, it's an amazing novel, with terrific plot, pace, and depth of character. Crime fiction gets no better than this.