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...

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?

An unidentified body has been found in a seedy Los Angeles alley. The only clue the cops have is a packet of newspaper articles about the past exploits of Elvis Cole - and the fact that before the man died, he said he was Elvis's father.

When quiet Ellen Lang enters Elvis's office, she's lost her husband and her son. Their search down the seamy side of Hollywood's studio lots and sculptured lawns soon leads them deep into a nasty netherworld of drugs and sex - and murder.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Elvis Cole is embroiled in a controversial, high-profile murder case. A wealthy restaurateur is accused of murdering his wife, and his hot-shot defence lawyer hires Cole to find proof that the detective on the case, fooled around with the evidence.