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Summary: Carol Starkey, a Los Angeles bomb squad detective who suffered permanent scarring and watched her lover/partner die in a prior detonation, embarks on a dangerous investigation into a series of explosions rocking the city.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: Three years have passed since the detonation that killed Carol Starkey's partner and lover, but she is still severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can't bear to look in the mirror, and she hasn't been with another man since David Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol. When a bomb call takes the life...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BDD Audio 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: Jeff Talley, a former LAPD SWAT team negotiator takes a job as a police chief in a small Southern California town after a hostage situation gone bad results in recurring nightmares for him. Now, three smalltime punks go on the run after a grocery store robbery and killing in Talley's town. Soon the deputies have surrounded the house where the inept robbers have taken a man and his two children...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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Summary: When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam Pub. Group 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: When single mother Devon Connor hires private investigator Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's dealing drugs. But the truth is devastatingly different. With two other partners in crime, he's been responsible for a string of high-end burglaries, a crime spree that takes a deadly turn when one of them is murdered and Tyson and his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2017
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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Summary: "Loyalty, commitment, the fight against injustice--these are the things that have always driven Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. If they make a promise, they keep it. Even if it could get them killed. When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case--until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defense contractor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2014
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Summary: The extraordinary new crime novel from the New York Times bestselling author. Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina; but now, five years later, they face a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a protection gang, he offers his help, but neither of them want it-and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching them. As the level of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group (USA), Inc. 2011
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Crais, Robert.
Summary: Elvis Cole and partner Joe Pike search for 10-year-old Ben Chenier (son of attorney Lucy Chenier), who has disappeared without a trace while staying with Cole in Los Angeles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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Summary: Elvis was a hero when he cleared an innocent man of a murder charge. But when that innocent man is found dead three years later holding photos of the victim, Elvis is the one on trial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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Summary: Frank Meyer had the American dream--until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The police think Meyer was hiding something very bad, but Joe Pike does not. With the help of Elvis Cole, Pike sets out on a hunt of his own--an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
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Summary: Struggling to reclaim his career after the devastating murder of his partner eight months earlier, LAPD cop Max Kent is teamed with a traumatized military canine named Maggie who assists Max in an effort to track down his late partner's killer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2007
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Summary: Working as a bodyguard for a spoiled federal witness, Joe Pike hatches a desperate plan to disappear with the woman in the underworld of Los Angeles and turn the tables on her would-be killers, an effort in which he enlists the help of private investigator Elvis Cole.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2007