Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels
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Author
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English
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When Ellen Lang's husband Mort disappears with their son, she hires Elvis Cole to track him down. At the same time as police find Mort in his parked car with four gunshots in his chest--and no kid in sight--Ellen disappears. It's up to Elvis Cole and Joe Pike to find the connection between sleazy Hollywood players and an ex-Matador.
3) Lullaby town
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1993, ©1992
Edition
Bantam pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Peter Alan Nelsen is a super successful movie director who is used to getting what he wants. And what he wants is to find the wife and infant child he dumped on the road to fame. It's the kind of case that Cole could handle in his sleep, except that when Cole actually finds Nelsen's ex wife, everything takes on nightmarish proportions a nightmare which involves Cole with a nasty New York mob family and a psychokiller who is the son of the godfather....
4) Free fall
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Edition
Bantam paperback edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Elvis uncovers a world of corrupted cops in the LAPD, and his investigation takes him to the heart of the war zone in South Central Los Angeles where he must confront street gangs and conspiracies of silence.
5) Voodoo River
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
456 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
7) Indigo slam
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Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Hyperion trade edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles PI Elvis Cole is hired by three children who want to make sure their father, Clark Hewitt, is still alive. Hewitt went into hiding, pursued by Russian counterfeiters on whom he squealed. The investigation takes Elvis to Hewitt's hometown, Seattle, where he runs afoul of both the newly emerging Russian Mafia and U.S. Federal Marshals.
8) L.A. requiem
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Series
Language
English
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A reckoning has come to the City of Angels ... Karen Garcia is missing and her father doesn't trust the cops he wants someone he knows on the case so he enlists the help of Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. It seems that Karen is the latest victim of a distinctive serial killer and the police are determined to pin her death, and four others, on the witness who found her body. Cole doesn't believe the man has the guts to murder, and with his partner and the...
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Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
302 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the son of his long-time girlfriend, Lucy, goes missing, Elvis Cole finds himself encumbered by his personal demons, the dark secrets of his childhood, and long-supressed memories of his service in Vietnam.
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Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Elvis Cole learns that the body of a stranger who claimed to be his father has been discovered, a situation that prompts him to team up with partner Joe Pike to unveil dark secrets surrounding Cole's past.
11) The watchman
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Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Working as a bodyguard for a spoiled federal witness, Joe Pike hatches a desperate plan to disappear with the woman in the underworld of Los Angeles and turn on her would-be killers, an effort in which he enlists the help of private investigator Elvis Cole.
12) Chasing darkness
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
273 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
13) The first rule
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Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
14) The sentry
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Series
Language
English
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When Joe Pike witnesses Dru Rayne's uncle beaten by a protection gang, he becomes a target, and discovers Dru and her uncle are not who they seem.
15) Taken
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Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities. Fortunately, the kidnappers...
16) The promise
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Series
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English
Description
"When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case--until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defense contractor and was being blackmailed to supply explosives components for a person or persons unknown. Meanwhile, in another part of the city, LAPD officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, enter an abandoned building to locate an armed and dangerous thief,...
17) The wanted
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Series
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English
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"It seemed like a simple case--before the bodies started piling up. Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. When single mother Devon Connor hires private investigator Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's dealing drugs. But the truth is devastatingly different....
18) A dangerous man
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English
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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 bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when two men abduct her. Joe chases them down, and the two...
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English
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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 hires Elvis to find her missing son, controversial podcaster Josh Shoe. Finding Josh should be simple, but Elvis isn't alone in the hunt: a deadly team of mysterious strangers are determined to find Josh and his adult film star girlfriend first. He calls...