It doesn’t scale the emotional heights of L.A. Requiem, and it doesn’t have the same cocky swagger of the early Elvis Cole books, but The Forgotten Man is still a fine detective novel. An unidentified man is shot dead in an alleyway, and with his dying words he claims he was looking for his son Elvis Cole. Elvis never knew his father, and he finds himself drawn to the case like a moth to a flame. But he is not the only one…