Voodoo River is the fifth book in the Elvis Cole series. Jodie Taylor is an actress who hires Elvis to help her discretely locate her birth family in order to get details about her medical background. For those familiar with the series, in this installment, Cole meets and works with Lucy Chenier, who is Jodie Taylor's attorney, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, near the small town where she was born. This job is almost too easy for the world's best detective and Elvis quickly finds the answers he was paid to find and more. When things grow unexpectedly complicated, Joe Pike and Elvis Cole must step in.
I have read a number of the Elvis Cole and Joe Pike stories by Robert Crais and really like them. While this is not my favorite of the series, I was certainly not disappointed. In general, the plot had a good number of twists and turns and was well paced. The characters and dialogue were interesting. Elvis is always a somewhat humorous and very likable main character. Joe Pike is not very conversational, but he is very good at what he does and is a very loyal friend and partner to Elvis. If you like this brand of crime mystery fiction, I think you will enjoy this book.
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