The Last Detective

This is an okay book written by Robert Crais. Elvis Cole’s relationship with attorney Lucy Chenier is strained. When she moved from Louisiana to join him in Los Angeles, she never dreamed that violence would so easily touch her life – but then the unthinkable happens. While Lucy is away on business and her ten-year-old son, Ben, is staying with Elvis, Ben disappears without a trace. Desperate to believe that the boy has run away, evidence soon mounts to suggest a much darker scenario. Joining forces with his enigmatic partner, Joe Pike, Elvis frantically searches for Ben with the help of LAPD Detective Carol Starkey, as Lucy’s wealthy, oil-industry ex-husband attempts to wrest control of the investigation.

This is the ninth book in the series.