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Elvis Cole e Joe Pike Serie

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.

Chasing darkness
Taken
The Monkey's Raincoat
Sunset Express
Indigo Slam
Los Angeles Requiem

Ordine di lettura consigliato

  1. 1

    The Monkey's Raincoat

    • 256pagine
    • 9 ore di lettura
    4,0(16169)Aggiungi una valutazione

    When quiet Ellen Lang enters Elvis Cole's Disney-deco office, she's lost something very valuable - her husband and young son. The case seems simple enough, but Elvis isn't thrilled. Neither is his enigmatic partner and firepower Joe Pike. 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. Now the case is getting interesting, but it's also turned ugly. Because everybody, from cops to starlets to crooks, has declared war on Ellen and Elvis.

    The Monkey's Raincoat
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    Stalking the Angel

    An Elvis Cole Novel

    4,0(10828)Aggiungi una valutazione

    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...

    Stalking the Angel
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    La città dorme

    • 331pagine
    • 12 ore di lettura
    4,1(9792)Aggiungi una valutazione

    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.

    La città dorme
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    Il mercante di corpi

    • 333pagine
    • 12 ore di lettura
    4,2(10604)Aggiungi una valutazione

    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").

    Il mercante di corpi
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    Sunset Express

    • 325pagine
    • 12 ore di lettura
    4,2(13199)Aggiungi una valutazione

    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.

    Sunset Express
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    Indigo Slam

    • 304pagine
    • 11 ore di lettura
    4,2(10390)Aggiungi una valutazione

    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.

    Indigo Slam
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    Los Angeles Requiem

    • 448pagine
    • 16 ore di lettura
    4,2(484)Aggiungi una valutazione

    Sulle colline di Hollywood, una giovane donna, figlia di un potente uomo d'affari, viene trovata uccisa con un colpo di pistola alla testa. E' stata la ragazza di Joe Pike, ex agente investigativo della polizia di Los Angeles che, con Elvis Cole, detective privato, viene incaricato dal padre di affiancare la polizia nelle indagini. Difficile immaginare due tipi più diversi: Cole è estroverso, sarcastico, pronto alla battuta, mentre Pike è un solitario e un duro di poche parole. Eppure i due sono amici per la pelle, disposti a tutto pur di sostenersi, persino a sfidare la polizia nella ricerca della verità. Cosa nasconde il passato di Pike? Qual è il segreto che lo rende così vulnerabile? E chi è il misterioso serial killer che continua a colpire seminando il suo cammino di indizi fuorvianti? Sullo sfondo di una Los Angeles inquietante, città dal fascino illusorio, si snoda un thriller magistrale, disseminato di colpi di scena e incredibilmente avvincente.

    Los Angeles Requiem
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    The Last Detective

    4,1(272)Aggiungi una valutazione

    Elvis Cole has got a problem to solve - and this time it's personal. Elvis Cole's girlfriend, Lucy, is out of town, and she has left her young son Ben in Elvis's care. Elvis and Lucy have had a few problems lately - not least over his job as a private investigator. But at last things seem to be getting better. Then Ben disappears. One minute he's playing his computer game in Elvis's house; the next he has vanished. Elvis looks everywhere, but he just can't find Ben; and neither can Lucy when she arrives. Then Elvis receives a phone call about Ben - and realises that something from his own past has come back to haunt him...

    The Last Detective
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    The watchman

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    A long time ago, Joe Pike asked for help. In return, he would, one day, be called upon to return the favour, no questions asked. That day has come. Joe Pike is asked to protect the life of Larkin Conner Barkley, a spoiled rich girl who happens to be a federal witness in a major case. But someone is leaking information about their whereabouts, and the killers are getting all too close. So Pike he hatches a plan: disappear into the anonymous underbelly of Los Angeles, turn the tables, 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 - an edgy, yet intensely vulnerable soul determined to destroy herself, unless Joe can fill the void in her bruised heart.

    The watchman
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    Chasing darkness

    • 400pagine
    • 14 ore di lettura
    4,0(96)Aggiungi una valutazione

    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...

    Chasing darkness
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    The Sentry

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    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

    The Sentry
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    Taken

    • 320pagine
    • 12 ore di lettura
    4,1(177)Aggiungi una valutazione

    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.

    Taken
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    The Wanted

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    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.

    The Wanted
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    A Dangerous Man

    • 339pagine
    • 12 ore di lettura
    4,2(774)Aggiungi una valutazione

    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?

    A Dangerous Man