Indigo Slam: An Elvis Cole Novel

by Robert Crais

Robert Crais has thrilled mystery readers with his Elvis Cole Book Series, winning awards and top-flight reviews.

Now Elvis is back in Indigo Slam and involved in a tantalizing missing persons case. When fifteen-year-old Teri Hewitt pleads with Elvis to find the father who abandoned her and her two younger siblings, his first reaction is to turn the case over to the California department of social services. But when he sees that Teri has the lives and care of her little family well in hand, he decides to take the job. asking Joe Pike to help him keep an eye on the kids.

The missing dad, Clark Hewitt, is an unemployed printer whose personal history is hard to pin down; as Elvis investigates, the image of Hewitt that emerges indicates a chronically unemployed drug addict who slums through the criminal world, not a bona fide printer but a master counterfeiter. The clues soon send Elvis to Hewitt's home town, Seattle, where Elvis runs afoul of both the newly emerging Russian Mafia and U.S. Federal Marshals as he discovers more about the elusive deadbeat dad.

In the meantime, Lucy Chenier comes to L.A. to interview for a television job she wants badly. This will mean her moving to Elvis's town, and will cement the seriousness of their relationship. But things get complicated when her ex-husband shows up at Elvis's office, claiming that Lucy still loves him and that he won't permit her to leave Louisiana. Just as Joe Pike has just about had it with babysitting, the bad guys converge in a breathtaking chase at Disneyland, and the novel comes to its unbearably suspenseful climax. With characteristic hilarity and wit, Robert Crais makes Indigo Slam his most compelling book yet.

About the Author:

Robert Crais lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter. He is the author of six previous Elvis Cole novels: The Monkey's Raincoat, Stalking the Angel, Lullaby Town, Free Fall, Voodoo River, and Sunset Express.

Praise for Robert Crais and his previous novel, Sunset Express:

"The trouble with starting a Robert Crais book is that you can't put it down until you finished it. Crais is one of the great ones."
—Tony Hillerman

"This is the kind of book mystery lovers would lay across a set of train tracks for a hot-to-the-touch murder, a batch of artfully shaded suspects, and a private eye that will have you laughing, guessing, and careening through each and every page.... If it's Elvis you're looking for, then forget the King. Cole's your man."
—Lorenzo Carcaterra, author of Sleepers

"Crais knows his way around a wisecrack and a narrative sucker-punch.... Cole is
an enormously appealing character." -Michael Berry. San Francisco Chronicle
"This hip, funny, and thought-provoking novel will delight Crais's growing legion of fans, and the fist-pumping, high-fiving conclusion offers the hope of ultimate justice when our (legal) system fails."
—Wes Lukowsky, Booklist

ISBN: 0-7868-3-6261-0, 9780786862610

Summary:

The seventh novel featuring the wise-cracking Los Angeles private eye pits Cole against counterfeiters and the U.S. marshals as he attempts to track down a major figure in the criminal underworld.