Lullaby Town
Hollywood's newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelson, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelson wants is for Elvis Cole to comb the country for the airhead wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en route to becoming the third biggest filmmaker in America.
It's the kind of case Cole can handle in his sleep -- until it turns out to be a nightmare. For when Cole finds Nelson's wife in a small Connecticut town, she's nothing like what he expects. The lady has some unwanted -- and very nasty -- mob connections, which means Elvis could be opening the East Coast branch of his P.I. office at the bottom of the Hudson River.
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In the sun-scorched sprawl of Los Angeles, where crime and conscience often collide, Robert Crais has spent decades navigating the fine line between justice and vengeance. Known for his sharp, emotionally layered crime novels, Crais is the creator of the enduring Elvis Cole and Joe Pike series—stories that aren’t just page-turners, but character studies in loyalty, trauma, and survival. What makes his work resonate isn’t just the pulse-pounding suspense, but the aching humanity behind every gunshot and gut punch.
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike
Los Angeles isn’t just a setting in the Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novels—it’s a character in its own right: sun-washed and fractured, glamorous on the surface, broken underneath. Through this electric and dangerous landscape walk two men: a private investigator with a sarcastic streak and a stubborn sense of honor, and his partner, a taciturn ex-Marine who speaks with action more than words. Together, they don’t just solve crimes—they unravel the lives wrecked by them.
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike consists of twenty books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

