Albie Berk - Robert Crais: Best Reading Order--with Summaries & Checklist

ROBERT CRAIS Reading List With Summaries Ultimate ReadingList By Sir Reed A. Lot Old TownPublishing 2018 Introduction When I like a writer or a seriescharacter, I want to read every book and story I can get my handson and I want to do it the Best Reading Order. Its so much morefun that way. Although there are author websites that offer quite abit of information, and other places on the Internet to find somedata, I havent found anywhere I can get a simple Robert Craisreading list that I can use with my Kindle that includes a shortsummary to tell me what the books is about. So, I decided to gather thisinformation for myself and for others who would appreciate it aswell. I hope this list and story summarieswill increase your pleasure in reading all the Robert Crais booksand will give you that little added fix we fans socrave.

In the first part, each book is listedin series and chronological order with publication date andincludes a short summary of each one. The second part is also listed inorder, this time with links to purchase any books youre missingfrom Amazon. The third part you can use incombination with your Kindle highlighting feature to keep track ofthe books youve read. The fourth part is a list of otherbooks available in the Best Reading Order series. I hope you enjoy this book and find thematerial helps you get the most out of the works of the marvelouswriter Robert Crais. Table of Contents Part 2 Robert Crais novels in seriesorder to be used as a Kindle checklist Part1 Novels are listed here in series orderor as standalone novels.

A short summary is given when the booktitle is first presented here. Publication Order of ElvisCole & Joe Pike Books The Monkey's Raincoat (1987) Elvis Cole#1 Drugs, sex, and murdersteal the scene when Elvis Cole searches the seamy side ofHollywoods studio lots for the missing husband and son of EllenLang. Stalking the Angel (1989) Elvis Cole#2 Hired by a ruthless hotelmagnate to locate a priceless Japanese manuscript, Elvis Cole findshimself investigating a lethal scam involving the Japanese Yakuza.Soon he is enmeshed in violent death and a young girl he will nitsoon forget. Lullaby Town (1992) Elvis Cole#3 Peter Alan Nelson, known asthe King of Adventure, is Hollywoods newest young genius. However,Nelsons life isnt perfect. He needs Elvis Cole to find hisairhead wife and infant child that he dumped en route to successand fame.

W hen Cole finds Nelson's wife in a small Conneticut town, hefinds she has some unwanted and very nasty mobconnections. Free Fall (1993) Elvis Cole#4 Elvis Cole takes on a newcase. Hired by Jennifer Sheridan to investigate her decorated LosAngeles-cop boyfriend whos gotten himself in some mysterioustrouble, and Cole and his partner Pike are soon chin deep in policecorruption, gangs, and a rather nasty frame-up. Voodoo River (1995) Elvis Cole#5 Elvis Cole returns in amystery involving a crazed housewife, a Cajun thug, and ahundred-year-old river turtle named Luther. Sunset Express (1996) Elvis Cole#6 When prominent restaurateurTeddy Martin is arrested for the brutal murder of his wife, hesnot about to got down without a fight and a vigorous defense- whichincludes the services of PI Elvis Cole. Martin wants Cole to findproof that Police Detective Angela Rossi tampered with theevidence.

However, as Cole and his partner Joe Pike work their waythrough a tangle of witnesses, they begin to suspect that its notthe police who are behind the setup. Indigo Slam (1997) Elvis Cole#7 Elvis Cole is hired by afifteen-year-old girl and her two younger siblings to find theirmissing father. Elvis now must pick up the cold pieces of a crimethat was committed on a devastating night three years previously.As clues to a mans secret life emerge from the shadows, Elvisfinds he is facing a violent storm of desperation and conspiracy -bearing down rapidly on three innocent children whose only crimewas surviving. L.A. Requiem (1999) Elvis Cole#8 Joe Pike, Elvis Colestaciturn partner, gets a call from his friend Frank "Tortilla"Garcia. Frank sends the detectives out to find his daughter, Karen.However, the police find her first - in a park with a bullet in herbrain.

The two stay on the case,but when another murder points to Pike as a suspect, things take aturn for the worse. The Last Detective (2003) Elvis Cole#9 P.I. Elvis Colesrelationship with attorney Lucy Chenier is strained. To make thingsfar worse, while Lucy is away on business her ten-year-old son Ben,who is staying with Elvis, vanishes without a trace. Cole vows to find Ben. ButColes partner, Joe Pike, knows more about this case than he hassaid.

The Forgotten Man (2005) Elvis Cole#10 Responding to reports of agunshot, the LAPD find an injured man in an alleyway. The dying mantells the officer on the scene that he is looking for his son,Elvis Cole. Minutes later, the man is dead. Elvis turns to the oneperson who can help him navigate the emotional minefield of hispast - his longtime partner and confidant, Joe Pike. Together withhard-edged LAPD detective Carol Starkey, they begin a desperatesearch for the dead man's identity. The Watchman (2007) Joe Pike#1 Joe Pike is coerced intoprotecting Larkin Barkley, young heiress whose life is in dangerafter finding herself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Theenemy is shadowy, violent and relentless, but Pike is equal to thechallenge. Chasing Darkness (2008) Elvis Cole#12 During a fire evacuationeffort the LAPL discover the week-old corpse of an apparentsuicide. In his lap they find a photo album of seven brutallymurdered young women -- one per year, for seven years. When the suicide victim isidentified as a former suspect in one of the murders, Elvis Cole'sworld is turned upside down. Three years earlier Lionel Byrd was brought totrial for the murder of a female prostitute named Yvonne Bennettand it was exculpatory evidence provided by Cole that allowed theman to walk free. But the discovery of the death album in Byrd'slap now labels Elvis as an unwitting accomplice tomurder.

Shut out of the LAPD investigation, Elvis Coleand Joe Pike fight to uncover the truth about Lionel Byrd and hisalbum of death. The First Rule (2010) Elvis Cole #13,Joe Pike #2 Frank Meyer and his familyare executed in their home. As the police investigate the secretlife they're sure Meyer had, Joe Pike's rushes to clear hisfriend's name, and to punish the people who murdered him. Whatstarts out as a simple investigation quickly leads them along atwisted trail to a terrible and horrifying crime. The Sentry (2011) Elvis Cole #14, JoePike #3 Dru Rayne and her unclefled to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina. Now, five years later,they face a different danger.

When Joe Pike witnessesDru's uncle beaten by a protection gang, he offers his help, butneither do they or the Federal agents watching them want hishelp. The violence escalates, andPike himself becomes a target. Soon, he and Elvis Cole learn thatDru and her uncle are the targets of a vengeful and murderous forcefrom their past. Taken (2012) Elvis Cole #15, Joe Pike#4 When Nita Morales hiresElvis Cole to find her missing adult daughter, shs not reallyafraid, even though shes gotten a call demanding ransom. Shescertain her daughter is off with a guy and in need of somecash. But Nita is wrong.

The girl and herboyfriend have been taken by bandits who buy and sell victims likecommodities, killing the ones who no one wants to pay for. ElvisCole goes undercover to rescue the two young people and when Colehimself is taken its up to Joe Pike to save them all. The Promise (2015) Elvis Cole #16, JoePike #5 When Elvis Cole is secretlyhired to find a grief-stricken mother, hes led to an ordinaryhouse on a rainy night in Echo Park. Only the house isnt ordinary,and the people hiding inside are a desperate fugitive and amurderous criminal with his own dangerous secrets. As dangers andsecrets build Cole must risk his life and those of his closestallies to keep the promise he made. The Wanted (2017) Elvis Cole #17, JoePike #6 A single mother, DevonConnor hires private investigator Elvis Cole, to find out why herson Tyson is suddenly flashing way too much cash.