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AUTHOR Crais, Robert. TITLE The forgotten man / by Robert Crais. EDITION 1st ed. IMPRINT New York : Doubleday : 2005. DESCRIPT 342 p. ; 25 cm. SUBJECT Cole, Elvis (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. Private investigators -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.Birthfathers -- Fiction. Mystery fiction. ISBN 0385504284.
"Los Angeles, 3:58 A.M.: Elvis Cole receives the phone call he's been waiting for since childhood. Responding to a gunshot, the LAPD has found an injured man in an alleyway. He has told the officer on the scene that he is looking for his son, Elvis Cole. Minutes later, the man is dead." "Haunted throughout his life by a lack of knowledge about his father, Elvis turns to the one person who can help him navigate the minefield of his past - his longtime partner and confidant, Joe Pike. Together with hard-edged LAPD detective Carol Starkey (who is harboring her own growing feelings for Cole), they launch a feverish search for the dead man's identity. Elvis, meanwhile, struggles between wanting to believe he's found his father at last and allowing his suspicions to hold him back. With each long-buried clue they unearth, a frightening picture begins to emerge about who the dead man might have been - and the terrible secret he's been guarding." "At the same time, Elvis has no way of knowing he has awakened a sleeping monster. The further he goes in his investigation, the closer he draws to a merciless killer who is violently connected to the unidentified man's past. This psychopath believes Cole is hunting him, and he goes on the attack to find Elvis before Elvis can find him."--BOOK JACKET.

AUTHOR Scottoline, Lisa. TITLE Devil's corner / Lisa Scottoline. EDITION 1st ed. IMPRINT New York : HarperCollins, c2005. DESCRIPT 393 p. ; 24 cm. SUBJECT West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Fiction. Public prosecutors -- Fiction. Women lawyers -- Fiction. Conspiracies -- Fiction. Mystery fiction. Legal stories. ISBN 0060742887.
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When prosecutor Vicki Allegretti arrives at a rowhouse to meet a confidential informant, she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time -- and is almost shot to death. She barely escapes with her life, but cannot save the two others gunned down before her disbelieving eyes. Stunned and heartbroken, Vicki tries to figure out how a routine meeting on a minor case became a double homicide.
Vicki's suspicions take her to Devil's Corner, a city neighborhood teetering on the brink of ruin -- thick with broken souls, innocent youth, and a scourge that preys on both. But the deeper Vicki probes, the more she becomes convinced that the murders weren't random and the killers were more ruthless than she thought.
When another murder thrusts Vicki together with an unlikely ally, she buckles up for a wild ride down a dangerous street -- and into the cross-hairs of a conspiracy as powerful as it is relentless.