Robert Crais, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-49583-7
In his eighth book about wise-cracking Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole, Crais has expanded his narrative reach and broadened his characters' horizons to produce a mature work that deserves to move him up a notch or two--into Parker or...
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Robert Crais, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-49585-1
The title of Crais's fiery third thriller (after L.A. Requiem
and Demolition Angel) can refer not just to the two sets of innocents held at gunpoint in the story but to the reader, who will be wired tight to the book. The novel launches with a...
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Robert Crais, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-553-56509-6
L.A. detective Elvis Cole aids a woman distressed by her fiance's involvement in illicit police work in this Edgar nominee. (May)
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Robert Crais, Author Hyperion Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7868-8905-1
Fifth installment in Crais's Elvis Cole series, in which the wisecracking private eye journeys from Los Angeles to Louisiana to trace a client's past. (Apr.)
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Robert Crais, Author Bantam Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09242-4
Narrator-PI Elvis Cole (last seen in Lullaby Town ) is back, wisecracking but caring and the very model of a modern L.A. tec: he likes Nicoise salads, Evian water and yoga; he says ``Sure'' a lot. Secretary Jennifer Sheridan--young, pretty and a bit
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Robert Crais, Author Hyperion Books $21.45 (298p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6076-0
``Efficiency and focus are the keys to success,'' says L.A. PI Elvis Cole in the fifth (after Free Fall) and best to date of this outstanding series. Although Cole's comment is a little facetious, it's an accurate commentary on his approach here....
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Robert Crais, Author Hyperion Books $6.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7868-8915-0
PW gave a starred review to this tale of Southern California PI Elvis Cole's run-in with a big-shot criminal defense attorney and the LAPD. (June)
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Robert Crais, Author Hyperion Books $21.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6096-8
The public's readiness to believe the worst of its police forces is an undercurrent in the latest case (after Voodoo River) for Southern California PI Elvis Cole. Beginning with the discovery of a corpse off Mulholland Drive in suburban L.A., the...
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Robert Crais, Author Hyperion Books $22.45 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6261-0
At the end of this wild ride, Vietnamese revolutionaries, Russian assassins and federal operatives are all part of a tense face-off. Not surprisingly, wisecracking L.A. shamus Elvis Cole is stuck right in the middle of things. At the start, Elvis is
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Robert Crais, Putnam, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15707-3
Near the outset of Crais's impressive third thriller featuring L.A. PI Joe Pike (after The First Rule), Pike notices two suspicious characters enter a Venice, Calif., sandwich shop. Pike, an ex-Marine and former LAPD patrol officer, walks into the...
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Robert Crais. Putnam, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15827-8
At the start of bestseller Crais’s satisfying 15th Elvis Cole novel (after 2011’s The Sentry), Jack Berman, a USC dropout, and his girlfriend, Krista Morales, a star student at Loyola Marymount, get caught in a battle between human traffickers and “b
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Robert Crais. Putnam, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-16148-3
Expect the expected in this stand-alone crime thriller from Shamus Award–winner Crais (The Two Minute Rule). Maggie, a weapon-detecting German shepherd who was seriously traumatized in Afghanistan after an IED killed her human partner and she was...
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Robert Crais. Putnam, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-16149-0
MWA Grandmaster Crais is at the top of his game in his 16th Elvis Cole novel (after 2012’s Taken). When the L.A. PI goes looking for chemical engineer Amy Breslyn, who has absconded with $460,000 from her company, Woodson Energy Solutions, he learns
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Robert Crais. Putnam, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-16150-6
In bestseller Crais’s taut 17th thriller to feature L.A. PI Elvis Cole and his cryptic sidekick, Joe Pike (after 2015’s The Promise), frantic mom Devin Connor hires Elvis to find out why her teenage son, Tyson, has a mountain of expensive clothing,...
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Robert Crais, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-50426-3
Elvis lives! Elvis Cole that is, Crais's iconoclastic, smart-aleck L.A. PI, last seen in Indigo Slam
(1997). Violent and action-packed, this eighth book in the series has less of Cole's usual wisecracking but all the intensity and convoluted
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Robert Crais, Author Doubleday $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-49584-4
Acclaimed for his Elvis Cole mystery series (L.A. Requiem, etc.), Crais deserves further garlands for this stand-alone crime novel. The book features one of the most complex heroines to grace a thriller since Clarice Starling locked eyes with...
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Robert Crais, Author . Putnam $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15613-7
When garment importer Frank Meyer and his family are executed in their Los Angeles home at the start of bestseller Crais's adrenaline-fueled second thriller to feature PI Joe Pike (after The Watchman
), LAPD detectives soon connect Meyer to...
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Robert Crais, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-50428-7
Crais's latest L.A.-based crime novel featuring super-sleuth Elvis Cole blends high-powered action, a commanding cast and a touch of dark humor to excellent dramatic effect. One morning at four, Cole gets a call from the LAPD informing him that...
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Robert Crais, Author . Simon & Schuster $25.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8164-5
Crais returns L.A. PI Elvis Cole to center stage after 2007's The Watchman
, which showcased Cole's partner, Joe Pike, though Cole doesn't wisecrack as much as usual and he has only a few scenes with close friends to reveal his warmth
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Robert Crais, Author . Simon & Schuster $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8163-8
As the subtitle suggests, Joe Pike, the intriguing, enigmatic partner of L.A. PI Elvis Cole, takes center stage in this intense thriller from bestseller Crais (The Two Minute Rule
). To pay back an old debt, Pike is coerced into protecting Larkin...
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Robert Crais, Author . Simon & Schuster $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8161-4
Two minutes, in and out, that's the rule for robbing banks in this page-turning action ride around L.A. from bestseller Crais (Hostage
). Break that rule, and you can end up like Marchenko and Parsons, dying in a violent shoot-out on the streets,
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Robert Crais, Author, David Stuart, Read by , read by David Stuart. Nova Audio Books $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58788-643-0
Undoubtedly prompted by the success of recent Crais bestsellers (Demolition Angel; Hostage), his audio publishers have gone back to the second book in his increasingly popular Elvis Cole series, originally published in 1989, for a lively and...
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Robert Crais, Author, Mel Foster, Read by Brilliance Corporation $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-5651-6
Crais's old fashioned detective tale centers on investigators Elvis Cole and Joe Pike as they attempt to uncover a plot against a decorated L.A. police officer. Mel Foster's hard boiled narration creates a strong sense of noir throughout, making it...
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Robert Crais, Author, James Daniels, Read by , read by James Daniels. Brilliance Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-4437-7
After earning a law degree, James Daniels quit recording audiobooks, but returned to read Crais’s newest Elivis Cole and Joe Pike mystery (his previous Crais recordings include The Forgotten Man
, Hostage
, The Last Detective
, Lullaby Town
...
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Robert Crais, Author, James Daniels, Read by , read by James Daniels. Brilliance $38.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58788-521-1
After two bestselling stand-alone novels (Demolition Angel
and Hostage), Crais has returned to his popular Elvis Cole series with a thrilling action-adventure yarn. The private eye's eighth and last crusade against evil, L.A. Requiem, explored...
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Robert Crais, Author, Christopher Graybill, Read by , read by Christopher Graybill. Brilliance Audio $36.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59355-036-3
If Bruce Willis's face keeps coming to mind whenever former bank robber Max Holman speaks in this sharp and touching audio version of Crais's latest bestseller, it's not surprising. Willis starred in the movie of Crais's Hostage
and
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Robert Crais. Putnam, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-53568-3
In MWA Grand Master Crais’s outstanding 18th Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel (after 2017’s The Wanted), Elvis, a private detective, and Joe, a very private paramilitary contractor, try to determine why young Los Angeles bank teller Isabel Roland was...
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Robert Crais. Putnam, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-53572-0
The disappearance of podcaster Josh Schumacher drives MWA Grandmaster Crais’s entertaining 19th novel featuring L.A. PI Elvis Cole and his ex-Marine sidekick, Joe Pike (after 2019’s A Dangerous Man). Josh’s mother, Adele, hires Elvis to find Josh...
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