Robert Crais
Author
Description
Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. When Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller at his bank, steps out of work on her way to lunch, Joe Pike witnesses her attempted abduction. Thanks to his quick thinking, the two men are arrested. But the men soon make bail, and not long after they're found murdered. The police suspect Pike and Isabel had a hand in it, especially when Izzy disappears. Convinced that she has been abducted again, Pike...
2) The promise
Author
Publisher
Orion Books
Description
Loyalty, commitment, the fight against injustice - these are the things that 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 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 defence contractor and was being blackmailed to supply explosives components...
4) The sentry
Author
Series
Publisher
Orion
Description
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.
5) Suspect
Author
Publisher
Orion
Description
LAPD cop Scott James is not doing so well. Eight months ago, a shocking late-night assault by unidentified men killed his partner Stephanie, nearly killed him, and left him enraged, ashamed, and ready to explode. He is unfit for duty - until he meets his new partner. Maggie is not doing so well, either. A German shepherd who survived three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan sniffing out explosives before losing her handler to an IED. They are each other's...
7) The wanted
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
The gripping new novel from the master of the intelligent action thriller and author of 'Suspect', Robert Crais.
8) The watchman
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Joe Pike owes a bad man a big favour. The favour is to protect the life of a spoiled rich girl against the mob. When Pike and the girl immediately come under intense fire, he hatches a plan - disappear, turn the tables and hunt down the hunters. Pike uncovers a web of lies and betrayal.
9) Taken
Author
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.
10) The first rule
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Series
Description
The team thought that Frank Meyer had got out of the 'life' safely. He had put an end to his mercenary days, turned over a new leaf and settled down with his wife and children. Encouraged by his boss and friend Joe Pike, he had walked away. When he is murdered ten years later, Pike is determined to hunt the killers down.
12) Lullaby town
Author
Series
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Private Eye Elvis Cole thought he could handle this case in his sleep, but when he finds Nelson's ex-wife, everything takes on nightmarish proportions. He becomes involved with a nasty New York mob family and a psychokiller who's the son of the Godfather.
13) Racing the light
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Odd couple private eyes Elvis Cole and Joe Pike uncover a stash of deadly secrets when Elvis takes on the case of Josh Shoe, a controversial podcaster who has vanished. What seems at first like the simple case of a missing man becomes a labyrinth of lies that leads Elvis and Joe into harm's way - and then into the dark heart of Los Angeles. At the same time, Elvis is visited by the love of his life, Lucy, and her son Ben, and he is reminded at exactly...
14) Voodoo river
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Hired to uncover the past of Jodi Taylor, Elvis leaves Los Angeles to head for New Orleans in search of Jodi's biological parents. As Elvis learns about the enigmatic actress's origins, he also discovers the real reason he's been sent to Louisiana.
15) Free fall
Author
Series
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Jennifer Sheridan's fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plain-clothes unit, but Jennifer is sure he's in trouble - the kind of serious trouble that only Elvis Cole can get him out of.
16) Chasing darkness
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2009
Description
It's fire season and the LA hills are burning. As police evacuate homes they find a corpse clutching photos of dead girls, reopening an old case where Elvis Cole helped clear the suspect. Was he wrong, or is this a further trick from a killer still out there?
17) L.A. requiem
Author
Series
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2011
Description
A reckoning has come to the City of Angels. Karen Garcia is missing and her father doesn't trust the cops 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 on the witness who found her body.
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2012
Description
When an aged ex-con gets out of jail, freedom doesn't taste sweet. His son is gunned down in a drive-by shooting. When the hit is exposed as a revenge killing, and the question of police corruption is raised, it is a father's last duty to clear his son's name and catch the killer.
19) Indigo slam
Author
Series
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Elvis Cole is an LA private eye who refuses to grow up. What he isn't is a bleeding heart. So when 15-year-old Teri Hewitt asks him to find her father, he knows he should refuse. But saying no to a girl who needs help is not one of his strong points.
20) Demolition angel
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as LA's finest bomb squad technician. Three years have passed since the explosion which shattered her life and now she's doing time as a detective with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. Then a seemingly innocuous bomb call turns into a charred murder scene.