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 Robert Crais is the author of the Elvis Cole novels. He has won the Macavity and Edgar awards and been nominated for an Edgar. He lives in L.A. with his wife and daughter.

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In a series of increasingly popular mystery/thrillers, Robert Crais has painstakingly crafted the character of private eye Elvis Cole, who now ranks among America's favorite crime-fiction characters. But in the newest Crais thriller, "The Watchman," it's Cole's enigmatic partner Joe Pike who gets the lead role. Pike is called upon to act as bodyguard for a spoiled young heiress whose life is inexplicably, but indisputably, in serious danger.

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Elvis Cole, accomplice to murder? Not likely, as readers of the Robert Crais series know. But as "Chasing Darkness" begins, a man whom Cole once helped clear of a murder charge appears to be guilty of at least two more subsequent killings, and it leaves Cole badly shaken. It gets worse. The man is now dead, an apparent suicide. And Cole must begin from scratch, trying to piece together details of a string of murders - and what indirect role he played in two of them.
In a series of increasingly popular mystery/thrillers, Robert Crais has painstakingly crafted the character of private eye Elvis Cole, who now ranks among America's favorite crime-fiction characters. But in the newest Crais thriller, "The Watchman," it's Cole's enigmatic partner Joe Pike who gets the lead role. Pike is called upon to act as bodyguard for a spoiled young heiress whose life is inexplicably, but indisputably, in serious danger.
A career criminal gets out of prison just as he learns his estranged son, who's a cop, has been gunned down, in the Robert Crais thriller The Two Minute Rule. Max Holman is determined to set things right, and find out what really happened to his son, but to do that he finds he will need an unlikely ally: the ex-FBI agent who put him in prison in the first place.
A phone call in the middle of the night brings an important piece of news to private eye Elvis Cole, in this Robert Crais mystery. The phone call is from a police officer, telling Elvis that an apparently homeless man who was shot in an alley claimed, with his dying breath, to be Elvis' long-lost father. If true, this is the information Elvis has waited a very long time for.
A child's kidnapping is just the beginning of the trouble for private eye Elvis Cole, in this Robert Crais mystery, which marks the return of Elvis Cole after a nearly-six-year hiatus, and Crais uses the book to reveal much more about his popular hero than he's ever revealed before.
A totally burned out hostage negotiator, who just wants some peace and quiet, is thrust into exactly the kind of situation he was hoping to escape, in this standalone Robert Crais thriller. And this is a hostage situation with more than one deadly twist.
Robert Crais is best-known for his private-eye novels featuring Elvis Cole. But after eight Elvis Cole books, Crais shifted gears in dramatic fashion for this standalone thriller.
  

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