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Robert Crais
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Robert Crais is the bestselling author of eleven suspense novels, including - The Monkey's Raincoat, Stalking The Angel, Lullaby Town, and Free Fall, - all available from Bantam Books, He has written for such award winning television showa as L.A. law and Hill Street Blues, and he lives in Los Angeles.
Visit his website at www.robertcrais.com.
Full Series List in Order
Elvis Cole Novels
1 - The Monkey's Raincoat (Jul-1987)2 - Stalking the Angel (Sep-1989)
3 - Lullaby Town (Jan-1992)
4 - Free Fall (May-1993)
5 - Voodoo River (Jan-1995)
6 - Sunset Express (Apr-1996)
7 - Indigo Slam (May-1997)
8 - L.A. Requiem (Jun-1999)
9 - The Last Detective (Feb-2003)
10 - The Forgotten Man (Feb-2005)
11 - Chasing Darkness (Jul-2008)
12 - The Sentry (Jan-2011)
13 - Taken (Feb-2012)
14 - The Promise (Nov-2015)
15 - Racing the Light (Nov-2022)
Elvis Cole, Joe Pike & Associates
1 - The Monkey's Raincoat (Jul-1987)2 - Stalking the Angel (Sep-1989)
3 - Lullaby Town (Jan-1992)
4 - Free Fall (May-1993)
5 - Voodoo River (Jan-1995)
6 - Sunset Express (Apr-1996)
7 - Indigo Slam (May-1997)
8 - L.A. Requiem (Jun-1999)
9 - Demolition Angel (May-2000)
10 - The Last Detective (Feb-2003)
11 - The Forgotten Man (Feb-2005)
12 - The Watchman (Mar-2007)
13 - Chasing Darkness (Jul-2008)
14 - The First Rule (Jan-2010)
15 - The Sentry (Jan-2011)
16 - Taken (Feb-2012)
17 - Suspect (Jan-2013)
18 - The Promise (Nov-2015)
19 - The Wanted (Jan-2018)
20 - A Dangerous Man (Aug-2019)
21 - Racing the Light (Nov-2022)
22 - The Big Empty (Jan-2025)
Joe Pike Novels
1 - The Watchman (Mar-2007)2 - The First Rule (Jan-2010)
3 - The Sentry (Jan-2011)
4 - The Promise (Nov-2015)
5 - The Wanted (Jan-2018)
6 - A Dangerous Man (Aug-2019)
Scott James and Maggie
1 - Suspect (Jan-2013)2 - The Promise (Nov-2015)
Book List in Order: 27 titles
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The Monkey's Raincoat
- Jul-1987
- / Private Investigator
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When quiet Ellen Lang enters Elvis Cole's Disney-Deco office, she's lost something very valuable--her husband and her young son. The case seems simple enough, but Elvis isn't thrilled. Neither is his enigmatic partner and firepower, Joe Pike. Their s...
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Stalking the Angel
- Sep-1989
- / Private Investigator
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The blonde who walked into Cole's office was the best-looking woman he'd seen in weeks. The only thing that kept her from rating a perfect "10" was the briefcase on one arm and the uptight hotel magnate on the other. Bradley Warren had lost something...
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Lullaby Town
- Jan-1992
- / Private Investigator
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Hollywood's newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelsen, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelsen wants is for Elvis to comb th...
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Voodoo River
- Jan-1995
- / Private Investigator
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L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole's assignment is to find out their biological history an...
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Sunset Express
- Apr-1996
- / Private Investigator
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Elvis Cole is back on his own turf in Los Angeles, and embroiled in a controversial high-profile murder case. A wealthy restaurateur is accused of murdering his wife, and his hot-shot defense attorney hires Elvis to find proof that police detective A...
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Indigo Slam
- May-1997
- / Private Investigator
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Life in the California sun suits Elvis Cole--until the day a fifteen-year-old girl and her two younger siblings walk into his office. Then everything changes. Three years ago, a Seattle family ran for their lives in a hail of bullets. Hired by thr...
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L.A. Requiem
- Jun-1999
- / Private Investigator
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The day starts like any other in L.A. The sun burns hot as the Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires to coat the glittering city. But for private investigator Joe Pike, the city will never be the same again. His ex-lover, Karen Garcia, is dead...
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Demolition Angel
- May-2000
- / Police Procedural
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Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as L.A.'s finest bomb squad technician. Fueled with liberal doses of alcohol and Tagamet, she's doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have...
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The Last Detective
- Feb-2003
- / Private Investigator
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P.I. Elvis Cole's relationship with attorney Lucy Chenier is strained. Then the unthinkable happens. While Lucy is away on business and her ten-year-old son Ben is staying with Elvis, the boy vanishes without a trace. When the kidnappers call, it's n...
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The Forgotten Man
- Feb-2005
- / Private Investigator
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In an alleyway in Los Angeles an old man, clutching faded newspaper clippings and gasping his last words to a cop, lies dying of a gunshot wound. The victim claims to be P.I. Elvis Cole's long-lost father--a stranger who has always haunted his son. ...
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The Two-Minute Rule
- Apr-2006
- / Suspense
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Max Holman knew the two minute rule: Get in, get the cash, and get out. But two minutes can be a lifetime. . . . In one moment of weakness he botched a bank job and was sent away for years. Now released from prison, Max wants to reconcile with his es...
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The Watchman
- Mar-2007
- / Thriller
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Joe Pike--the ex-cop, ex-Marine, ex- mercenary from Robert Crais's superb P.I. Elvis Cole novels--headlines the explosive action of this page-turning New York Times bestseller. A wild-living young heiress slams into trouble in the L.A. night--the ...
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Chasing Darkness
- Jul-2008
- / Private Investigator
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Robert Crais's supercool California P.I. is back with a vengeance. It's fire season in the Los Angeles hills, and as an inferno closes in on the homes of Laurel Canyon, the LAFD makes a gruesome discovery--the days-old corpse of an apparent suicid...
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The First Rule
- Jan-2010
- / Thriller
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When suburbanite Frank Meyer and his family are executed during a home invasion, the police begin investigating the secret life they're sure Meyer had. Joe Pike is on a hunt of his own: to clear his old friend's name, and to punish the people who mur...
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The Sentry
- Jan-2011
- / Thriller
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But when Joe Pike does return, it is to a case that will rock him to his core. Five years ago, Dru Rayne and her uncle fled from Louisiana to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina hit, but now they face a different kind of danger. A neighborhood pro...
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The Promise
- Nov-2015
- / Thriller
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Elvis Cole Novels - 14
Elvis Cole, Joe Pike & Associates - 18
Joe Pike Novels - 4
Scott James and Maggie - 2
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes Scott James and his K-9 partner, Maggie, in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times -- bestselling author. Loyalty, commitment, the fight against injustice -- these are the t...
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The Wanted
- Jan-2018
- / Thriller
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Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Robert Crais. It seemed like a simple case -- before the bodies started piling ...
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A Dangerous Man
- Aug-2019
- / Thriller
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A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre--and Joe Pike's most perilous case to date. Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the ...
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Elvis Cole and Joe Pike: A Mysterious Profile
- May-2022
- / Police Procedural
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The #1 New York Timesâ€"bestselling author invites you into a conversation with his two most popular characters -- one well-liked and the other, not so much.In this short piece, Robert Crais brings us into the world of quirky and likable Los Angeles ...
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Racing the Light
- Nov-2022
- / General Fiction
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Private investigator Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner Joe Pike are back on the case in this brilliant new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais.Adele Schumacher isn't a typical worried mom. When she hires...
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The Man Who Knew Dick Bong
- Mar-2023
- / General Fiction
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In #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais’ homage to Raymond Chandler, journey back to 1950s L.A. where a private investigator’s simple case turns deadly. L.A. private investigator Eddie Church doesn’t do divorce work, but collec...
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Weigh Station
- Mar-2023
- / General Fiction
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A Novella - Originally Published 1982. This is the Audible Release 2023: Take an eerie ride to the weigh station in this supercharged short story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais, available in audio for the first time. Law...
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The Big Empty
- Jan-2025
- / General Fiction
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Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner, Joe Pike, race to find a terrifying, unidentified killer in this twisting, unpredictable thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais.Traci Beller was thirteen when her father disappeared in th...
Award-Winning Books by Robert Crais
2000 Dilys Award -- Mystery Novel
The Monkey's Raincoat
1988 Anthony Award -- Paperback Original
1988 Macavity Award -- First Mystery
Sunset Express
1996 Shamus Award -- P.I. Novel