Book ~ "Chasing Elvis" (2004) Glenn P. Marcel

From Invisible College Press ~ Elvis died in 1977, or did he?

n 1982 an Elvis impersonator clumsily robs a bank and incredibly all of the evidence points to the supposedly deceased Elvis as being the robber. A detective hot on the trail of the robber is convinced that he is chasing Elvis but is killed in an accidental car crash near Moscow, TN, leaving behind a five-year-old daughter. Twenty years later, the daughter is a tabloid reporter for Weird Magazine, a shameless, check-out counter rag. She is assigned to cover an Elvis Festival in Moscow, discovers her father's notes and quickly stumbles onto the Elvis-robber's trail.

What she discovers in rural Tennessee just may be the news story of the young century.

This book had promise. I enjoyed the author's writing style. It was quick and snappy. But that's the only thing I enjoyed about this book.

There were a few totally different story lines and it's not 'til you get to the end that you see how they are connected. It all falls into place too conveniently.

I didn't like any of the characters. They were way too quirky to be believable. For example, Bennie is a drug addicted nympho rich kid who is turning tricks for loser Freddy. She's dumb dumb dumb! Her friend, Lannie, isn't much better. There's no sorrow when Lannie's mother dies of cancer ... Bennie and Lannie are more interested in the mom's possessions.

Someone obviously didn't do a very good job in proofreading this book because there were typos and lots and lots of sloppy punctuation ... they need to learn about quotation marks. Very annoying.

Is Elvis the bankrobber? I'd love to tell you so you wouldn't waste your time reading this book but I don't want to spoil the ending if you do read it.