Robert Crais





Robert Crais

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June 20, 1953 in Louisiana, The United States

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Robert Crais is the author of the best-selling Elvis Cole novels. A native of Louisiana, he grew up on the banks of the Mississippi River in a blue collar family of oil refinery workers and police officers. He purchased a secondhand paperback of Raymond Chandler’s The Little Sister when he was fifteen, which inspired his lifelong love of writing, Los Angeles, and the literature of crime fiction. Other literary influences include Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, Robert B. Parker, and John Steinbeck.
After years of amateur film-making and writing short fiction, he journeyed to Hollywood in 1976 where he quickly found work writing scripts for such major television series as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, and Miami Vice, as well as...more


Average rating: 4.00 · 46,458 ratings · 3,493 reviews · 53 distinct works
The Watchman (Joe Pike, #1)
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 4,830 ratings — published 2007 — 32 editions
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The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvi...
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 3,694 ratings — published 1987 — 27 editions
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L.A. Requiem (Elvis Cole, #8)
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 3,282 ratings — published 1999 — 26 editions
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The Last Detective (Elvis C...
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 3,151 ratings — published 2003 — 36 editions
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The First Rule (Joe Pike, #2)
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 3,165 ratings — published 2009 — 19 editions
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The Sentry (Elvis Cole, #12...
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 3,042 ratings — published 2010 — 21 editions
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Chasing Darkness (Elvis Col...
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 2,891 ratings — published 2008 — 25 editions
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Sunset Express (Elvis Cole,...
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 2,448 ratings — published 1996 — 23 editions
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The Forgotten Man (Elvis Co...
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 2,290 ratings — published 1988 — 30 editions
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The Two Minute Rule
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 2,149 ratings — published 2006 — 33 editions
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More books by Robert Crais…
The Monkey's Raincoat Stalking The Angel Lullaby Town Free Fall Voodoo River Sunset Express Indigo Slam
Elvis Cole (13 books)
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4.014560710760119 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 32,416 ratings
The Watchman The First Rule The Sentry Taken
Joe Pike (4 books)
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4.046999047316609 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 12,596 ratings

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“She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.”
Robert Crais

“Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.”
Robert Crais, The Last Detective

“People want you to be ordinary.”
Robert Crais, The Last Detective

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