Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Series by Robert Crais, Hubert Tézenas

4.19 · 466 ratings
  • The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #1)
    #1

    The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #1)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings · published 1987

    Taking the mystery community by storm, this Elvis Cole novel was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards and won both the Anthony and Macavity for Best Novel of the Year.When Ellen Lang's husband disappears with their son, she hires Elvis Cole to track him down. A quiet and seemingly submissive wife, Ellen can't even write a check without him. All she wants is to get him and her son back—no questions asked... more

  • Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #2)
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    Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #2)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 1989

    The second blistering Elvis Cole novel from the bestselling author of THE FIRST RULE.Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable, something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure.Everything PI Elvis Cole knew about Japanese culture he'd learned from reading SHOGUN, but he knew a lot of crooks - and what he didn't know, his sidekick Joe Pike did.Together, Cole and Pike begin their search in L.A... more

  • Lullaby Town (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #3)
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    Lullaby Town (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #3)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 1992

    Hollywood's newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelson, 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 Nelson wants is for Elvis Cole to comb the country for the airhead wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en route to becoming the third biggest filmmaker in America.It's the kind of case Cole can handle in his sleep -- until it turns out to be a nightmare... more

  • Free Fall (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #4)
    #4

    Free Fall (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #4)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings · published 1993

    Jennifer Sheridan's fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer is sure he's in trouble - the kind of serious trouble that only Elvis Cole can get him out of.

  • Voodoo River (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #5)
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    Voodoo River (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #5)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 1995

    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 and report back.It seems all too clear cut. But when he gets to Louisiana and begins his search, he finds that there's something much darker going on. Other people are also looking for Taylor's parents, and some are ending up dead... more

  • Sunset Express (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #6)
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    Sunset Express (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #6)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1996

    Prominent restaurateur Teddy Martin is facing charges in his wife’s brutal murder. But he’s not going down without spending a bundle of cash on his defense. So his hotshot attorney hires P.I. Elvis Cole to find proof that Detective Angela Rossi tampered with the evidence. Rossi needs a way back to the fast track after falling hard during an internal investigation five years ago... more

  • Indigo Slam (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #7)
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    Indigo Slam (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #7)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 1997

    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 three kids to find their missing father, Elvis now must pick up the cold pieces of a drama that began that night. What he finds is a sordid tale of high crimes and illicit drugs... more

  • L.A. Requiem (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #8)
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    L.A. Requiem (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #8)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 1999

    Robert Crais (Free Fall, Monkey's Raincoat) returns with his eighth Elvis Cole mystery, L.A. Requiem, a breakneck caper that leaves the wise-cracking detective second-guessing himself. Cole's partner, the tight-lipped, charm-free Joe Pike, gets a call from his friend Frank "Tortilla" Garcia. Not only is Garcia a wealthy businessman, he's a political heavyweight and father of Karen, Joe's ex... more

  • The Last Detective (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #9)
    #9

    The Last Detective (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #9)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 2003

    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 not for ransom, but for a promise to punish Cole for past sins he claims he didn’t commit. With the LAPD wrestling over the case, and the boy’s estranged father attempting to take control of the investigation, Cole vows to find Ben first... more

  • The Forgotten Man (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #10)
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    The Forgotten Man (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #10)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 2005

    Elvis Cole is back...With his acclaimed bestsellers, Hostage (a New York Times Notable Book) and Demolition Angel, Robert Crais drew raves for his unstoppable pacing, edgy characterizations, and cinematic prose. Now, in The Last Detective, Crais returns to his signature character, Los Angeles private investigator Elvis Cole, in a masterful page-turner that probes the meaning of family and the burdens of the past.Los Angeles, 3:58 A.M... more

  • The Watchman (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #11)
    #11

    The Watchman (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #11)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings · published 2007

    To pay back an old debt, Pike is coerced into protecting Larkin Barkley, a hard-partying young heiress whose life is in danger after a "wrong place wrong time" encounter that quickly escalates and spins out of control. The enemy is shadowy, violent and relentless—but the fierce, focused Pike, one of the strongest characters in modern crime fiction, is equal to the challenge... more

  • A L'ombre Du Mal (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #12)
    #12

    A L'ombre Du Mal (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #12)

    Robert Crais, Hubert Tézenas

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 2008

    Elvis Cole is Back--In a Desperate Fight to Clear his Name... It's fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an apparent suicide. But the gunshot victim is less gruesome than what they find in his lap: a photo album of seven brutally murdered young women -- one per year, for seven years... more

  • The First Rule (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #13)
    #13

    The First Rule (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #13)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings · published 2010

    When Frank Meyer and his family are executed in their home, the police begin investigating the secret life they're sure Meyer had. Joe Pike's on a hunt of his own: to clear his friend's name, and to punish the people who murdered him. What starts out as a simple trail gets twisted fast by old grudges, double crosses, blood vengeance, and a crime so terrible even Pike and his partner Elvis Cole have no way to measure it.

  • The Sentry (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #14)
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    The Sentry (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #14)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 2011

    Dru Rayne and her uncle are Louisiana refugees who relocated to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina. Now, five years after the storm, their struggling restaurant faces a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a neighbourhood gang intent on extorting protection money, he offers his own brand of protection... more

  • Taken (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #15)
    #15

    Taken (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #15)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 2012

    When Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing adult daughter, she isn’t afraid, even though she’s gotten a phone call asking for ransom. She knows it’s a fake, that her daughter is off with the guy Nita will only call "that boy," and that they need money: "Even smart girls do stupid things when they think a boy loves them."But Nita is wrong... more

  • The Promise (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #16)
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    The Promise (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #16)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2015

    Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in the new heart-stopping thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Robert Crais. Loyalty, commitment, and the fight for justice have always driven Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. If they make a promise, they keep it. Even if it could get them killed. When Elvis Cole is secretly hired to find a grief-stricken mother, he’s led to an ordinary house on a rainy night in Echo Park... more

  • The Wanted (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #17)
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    The Wanted (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #17)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 2017

    It seemed like a simple case before the bodies starting 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... more

  • A Dangerous Man (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #18)
    #18

    A Dangerous Man (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #18)

    Robert Crais

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 2019

    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 men are arrested... more

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