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Elvis Cole et Joe Pike Séries

Cette série suit un détective privé vif et cynique et son partenaire imposant et énigmatique alors qu'ils naviguent dans le paysage traître de Los Angeles. Opérant dans l'ombre d'Hollywood, ils s'attaquent à des affaires complexes qui exposent le côté sombre de la ville. Chaque épisode offre un suspense palpitant, des intrigues complexes et une exploration captivante de la loyauté et de la justice. Les amateurs de fiction policière dure seront attirés par leur univers.

Sunset Express
Meurtre à la sauce cajun
Free Fall
Lullaby Town
Stalking the Angel
The Monkey's Raincoat

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  1. The Monkey's Raincoat

    • 256pages
    • 9 heures de lecture

    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 Raincoat1
    4,0

  2. Stalking the Angel

    An Elvis Cole Novel

    • 225pages
    • 8 heures de lecture

    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...

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    4,0

  3. Lullaby Town

    • 320pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    Reissue of the third Elvis Cole novel from the bestselling author of THE WATCHMAN. Peter Alan Nelsen is a super-successful movie director who is used to getting what he wants. And what he wants now is to find the wife and infant child he dumped on the road to fame. It's the kind of case that Cole could handle in his sleep, except that when Cole actually finds Nelsen's ex-wife, everything takes on nightmarish proportions - a nightmare which involves Cole with a nasty New York mob family and a psycho killer who is the son of the godfather. And when the unpredictable Nelsen charges in, an explosive situation blows sky-high.

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    4,1

  4. Free Fall

    Elvis Cole investigates a case that erupts in gang violence in South Central Los Angeles.

    Free Fall4
    4,1

  5. Meurtre à la sauce cajun

    • 425pages
    • 15 heures de lecture

    Nouvelle enquête délicate pour Elvis Cole. Jodi Taylor, actrice préférée des Américains, vient de le charger de retrouver ses parents. La jeune femme née sous X n’a qu’une angoisse : que les tabloïds découvrent ses origines avant elle. Aussitôt, Cole s’envole pour la Louisiane et entreprend d’éclaircir l’affaire avec l’aide de la séduisante avocate Lucy Chenier. Problème : ils ne sont pas seuls. Un autre privé est sur le coup. Et il a un temps d’avance. Quels secrets se cachent derrière la naissance de la star ? Et si cette dernière n’avait pas tout dit ? Meurtres, chantages, mensonges, le tout assaisonné d’une bonne rasade de sauce cajun. Pour percer le mystère qui entoure Jodi Taylor, Elvis Cole va devoir s’enfoncer dans le bayou... Une inconnue : Joe Pike arrivera-t-il à temps pour l’en sortir vivant ?r.

    Meurtre à la sauce cajun5
    4,2

  6. Sunset Express

    • 325pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    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.

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    4,2

  7. Indigo Slam

    • 304pages
    • 11 heures de lecture

    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.

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    4,2

  8. L.A. Requiem

    • 444pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    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. Frank sends the gumshoe duo out to find his girl, but the boys are beaten to the punch by the men in blue: Karen is found in a park with a bullet in her brain. The two stay on the case, but when another murder points to Pike as a suspect, things take a turn for the worse. The boys on the force are all too willing to put Pike away -- he has a checkered past. When Cole attempts to save Pike, he finds a lot more than he bargained for.

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    4,3

  9. Elvis Cole: The Last Detective

    • 352pages
    • 13 heures de lecture

    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. But Cole’s partner, Joe Pike, knows more about this case than he has said. Pike lives in a world where dangerous men commit crimes beyond all reckoning. Now, one of those men is alive and well in L.A.—and calling Elvis Cole to war. . . .

    Elvis Cole: The Last Detective9
    4,1

  10. The forgotten man

    • 386pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    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.

    The forgotten man10
    4,3

  11. The Watchman

    • 373pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    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. The breathless pace and rich styling are sure to appeal to readers of hard-boiled fiction in general, but since up to now Pike has mostly remained in the background, some fans of the Elvis Cole series (The Forgotten Man, etc.) may find the explicit picture that emerges of Pike at odds with the image they've constructed for themselves.

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  12. Chasing darkness

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    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...

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    4,0

  13. The First Rule

    Joe Pike is out for revenge and no cop ... no bad guy... no one alive... is going to stop him.

    The First Rule13
    3,9

  14. Pocket: La sentinelle de l'ombre

    • 405pages
    • 15 heures de lecture

    Dans la jungle urbaine de Los Angeles, Joe Pike et Elvis Cole enquêtent sur ce qui semble n'être qu'une banale affaire issue de la guerre des gangs. Attiré par l'une des victimes, la séduisante Dru, Joe Pike se met en tête de débusquer le parrain local pour la sauver. Mais l'affaire se transforme en traque sanguinaire et la belle se révèle moins ingénue que prévu...

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    4,2

  15. Taken

    • 320pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    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.

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    4,1

  16. The Promise

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    The gripping new novel from the master of the intelligent action thriller and author of SUSPECT, Robert Crais.

    The Promise16
    4,2

  17. The Wanted

    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 Wanted17
    3,8

  18. A Dangerous Man

    • 339pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    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?

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    4,2

Dans le même esprit

  • Elvis Cole: The Early Years: The Monkey's Raincoat / Stalking The Angel / Lullaby Town

    • 640pages
    • 23 heures de lecture

    ¿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.

    Elvis Cole: The Early Years: The Monkey's Raincoat / Stalking The Angel / Lullaby Town
    4,4