Questa serie segue un perspicace e cinico investigatore privato e il suo imponente ed enigmatico partner mentre navigano nel insidioso panorama di Los Angeles. Operando nell'ombra di Hollywood, affrontano casi complessi che espongono il lato oscuro della città. Ogni episodio offre suspense avvincente, trame intricate e un'accattivante esplorazione della lealtà e della giustizia. Gli amanti della fiction poliziesca cruda saranno attratti dal loro mondo.
When Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole investigates the disappearance of Ellen Lang's husband and young son, he stumbles into a bizarre nightmare of high-level intrigue, missing drugs, and murder in Hollywood's seamy underworld.
An Elvis Cole Novel
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.'s Little Tokyo, the nest of the notorious Japanese mafia, the Yakuza - and find themselves caught up in a white-knuckled adventure filled with madness, murder and sexual obsession. Just another day's work for Elvis Cole...
Peter Alan Nelsen è uno dei registi più potenti e pagati del pianeta e ogni suo capriccio è legge. Quando, dopo anni di indifferenza, decide di ritrovare l'ex moglie Karen e il figlio Toby, abbandonati per inseguire il successo, uno stuolo di assistenti si attiva per ingaggiare il migliore investigatore sulla piazza. Un caso apparentemente facile che si trasforma, però, in un incubo. Rintracciata Karen nel paesino del Connecticut dove si è rifatta una vita e una nuova identità, la donna nega ogni legame con l'ex-marito e sembra spaventata a morte. Toccherà a Cole sventare il ricatto che vincola Karen al silenzio. Prima che il boss mafioso più potente della East Goast lo costringa ad aprire un nuovo ufficio... sul fondo del fiume Hudson.
Elvis Cole investigates a case that erupts in gang violence in South Central Los Angeles.
Jodi Taylor, famosa star televisiva, non sa nulla delle sue origini. Adottata in tenera età, non conosce neppure i suoi veri genitori. Per questo ingaggia il detective Elvis Cole. Perché le procuri un passato. Tutto sommato un caso semplice. Ma non appena Cole e il suo socio Joe Pike arrivano in Louisiana, dove Jodi è nata, tutto si complica. Lì, sotto un sole torrido che surriscalda gli animi, Cole si accorge che le sue domande danno molto fastidio. E quando un certo Rebenack, personaggio ambiguo coinvolto nella vicenda, viene trovato ucciso, il detective non ha più dubbi. Jodi Taylor sa molto di più di quanto gli ha fatto credere. Romanziere di successo, Crais è anche autore di serie televisive (tra cui "Miami Vice" e "Avvocati a Los Angeles").
It's a headline case: a famous restaurateur is accused of murdering his wife. His celebrity defence team is the best in the business, and they want PI Elvis Cole on the case - to find proof that LAPD Detective Angela Rossi manipulated the evidence. Rossi has been accused of planting evidence before, and it killed her career. Now it's rumoured she'll do anything to make a comeback - even framing an innocent man. But as Cole digs deeper, he learns that in the high-profile world of big-money law, the truth can be bought with blood.
Fifteen-year-old Teri Hewitt has been left holding the babies since her dad, Clark, disappeared without trace. She wants LA private eye Elvis Cole to find him, and although he knows he should refuse and hand it over to social services, he finds himself taking on the case. The search reveals a chronically unemployed drug addict caught up in counterfeiting scams and mixed up with the Russian mafia and Vietnamese gunmen. As the action heads towards a gunfight in Disneyland and Cole dodges his almost-girlfriend's ex-husband, he realises Teri is one whole lot of trouble he should have left to the professionals.
Sulle colline di una feroce Los Angeles una giovane donna, figlia di un potente uomo d'affari, viene uccisa con un colpo di pistola alla testa. Era la ragazza di Joe Pike, investigatore privato che, con il suo socio detective Elvis Cole, viene chiamato dal padre ad affiancare i detective della polizia, suoi colleghi di un tempo. Intanto un serial killer continua a colpire, e a seminare indizi fuorvianti.
Un bambino scomparso a Los Angeles. La più dura indagine di Elvis Cole - Romanzo
Six months after nearly losing everything to the men who kidnapped his girlfriend's ten-year-old son, Elvis Cole is slowly coming back to life - when he receives an ominous phone call from the LAPD. 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 . . . Joe Pike is the only person who can help Elvis navigate his past. As they investigate, Elvis is haunted by the fact that, at last, he might have found his father. But with each clue they uncover, a troubling picture emerges about the dead man. And as Elvis and Joe approach his true identity, they unwittingly walk straight into a hornet's nest.
After his acclaimed stand-alone bestseller, THE TWO MINUTE RULE, Robert Crais returns with the eagerly awaited new Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel. For Elvis and Joe, two of the most beloved characters in crime fiction, the action is getting a little close to home. The dangerous and enigmatic Joe Pike has always defied close examination, but in this breathtaking new thriller, that's all about to change... Joe Pike owes a bad man a big favour. And the favor is to protect the life of Larkin Conner Barkley, a spoiled rich girl who happens to be a federal witness in a case against the mob. When Pike and the girl come under intense fire, he hatches a plan: disappear into the anonymous underbelly of Los Angeles, turn the table, and hunt down the hunters. Enlisting the help of Elvis Cole, Pike uncovers a web of lies and betrayals; even the cops aren't who they seem. But as the body count rises, it becomes clear that Pike's biggest threat may be the girl herself - a vapid soul determined to destroy herself, unless Joe can fill the void in her bruised heart.
It is fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. As the Police and Fire Departments evacuate the inhabitants, they find something no one expected: the days-old corpse of a middle-aged recluse who apparently committed suicide. Then comes an even more horrible discovery. Clutched in his lap is a photo album containing photographs of seven young women who have been murdered. Each photograph was taken only moments after the women were killed, and could only have been taken by the killer. One murder per year for seven years, their bodies found in different parts of the city. LAPD homicide detectives had never connected the seven murders. But now with the discovery of the 'death album' there is a link. Only one suspect had been charged in any of those cases but, with evidence supplied by Elvis Cole, in the end he walked free. That suspect was the suicide now discovered in the fire...and now the police are out for Cole...
Joe Pike is out for revenge and no cop ... no bad guy... no one alive... is going to stop him.
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 neighborhood gang intent on extorting protection money, he offers his own brand of protection. But neither Dru nor her uncle want his help--and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching their store
Joe Pike must take on his toughest challenge yet. He must hunt down and rescue . . . Elvis Cole. A nail-biting Cole and Pike novel from the No. 1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author.
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in this heart-stopping thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais. Elvis Cole and Joe Pike keep their promises. Even if it could get them killed... Elvis Cole is hired to find a woman who’s disappeared, a seemingly ordinary case, until he learns the missing woman is an explosives expert and worked for a Defense Department contractor. Meanwhile, LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, track a fugitive to a house filled with explosives—and a dead body. As the two cases intertwine, they all find themselves up against shadowy arms dealers and corrupt officials, and the very woman they promised to save may be the cause of their own deaths.
The New York Times bestselling novel by beloved author Robert Crais. No one knows their child better than a mother. But every kid has secrets... secrets even a mother shouldn't know.
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. But instead of putting the drama to rest, the arrests are only the beginning of the trouble for Joe and Izzy.After posting bail, the two abductors are murdered and Izzy disappears. Pike calls on his friend, Elvis Cole, to help learn the truth. What Elvis uncovers is a twisted family story that involves corporate whistleblowing, huge amounts of cash, the Witness Relocation Program, and a long line of lies. But what of all that did Izzy know? Is she a perpetrator or a victim? And how far will Joe go to find out?
¿Shooting for the big time with all guns blazing¿ Guardian Containing STALKING THE ANGEl, LULLABY TOWN and THE MONKEY¿S RAINCOAT, this omnibus introduces readers to one the sharpest PI¿s on the scene; Disney obsessed Vietnam vet Elvis Cole. And the most frightening sidekick since Spenser¿s Hawk; the taciturn and lethal Joe Pike. Award-winning, critically acclaimed Robert Crais built a rock-solid following with these sparkling crime novels. Now they are available in hardback for the first time to his growing legion of UK fans.
