The Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Series by Robert Crais
Are you looking for a nice, long crime series that will keep you immersed? With eighteen books (and counting!) the Elvis Cole and Joke Pike books should keep you satisfied! The Elvis Cole books follow a private investigator and his partner, Joe Pike, as they solve crimes in Los Angeles. The first book was an Edgar Award nominee, and since its publication in 1987, the Elvis Cole & Joe Pike books have been nominated for numerous awards and have won six, including taking the Shamus Award twice. Most of the books feature Elvis Cole as the protagonist, but more recent installments star Joe Pike, which might be a little confusing for new readers–so if you’ve ever wondered where to start with Elvis Cole and Joe Pike books in order, you’ve come to the right place!
The Elvis Cole & Joe Pike Books in Order
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TV actress Jodie Taylor hires Elvis to discover the identity of her biological parents, so he heads to Louisiana, where Taylor was given up for adoption over thirty years ago. But his case turns out to be much more than searching through dry old records–someone else also wants to find Jodie's biological parents, and they've been murdered for it. Elvis better watch his step.
A trio of kids walks into Elvis Cole's office, and they have a simple request: find their father, who has been missing for eleven days. They have good reasons for not going to the police, and one of those reasons is why the family had to flee from Seattle three years earlier in a hail of bullets. Now as Elvis and Joe dig deeper into the case, they find themselves walking straight into a web of corruption that's being investigated at the federal level.
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