Robert Crais






Robert Crais

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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, a...more




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The Watchman The Watchman (Joe Pike, #1)
by Robert Crais
avg rating 3.96 — 816 ratings — published 2007
16 editions
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L.A. Requiem L.A. Requiem (Elvis Cole, #8)
by Robert Crais
avg rating 4.15 — 667 ratings — published 1999
15 editions
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The Monkey's Raincoat The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole, #1)
by Robert Crais
avg rating 3.93 — 663 ratings — published 1987
19 editions
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Chasing Darkness Chasing Darkness (Elvis Cole, #11)
by Robert Crais
avg rating 3.86 — 641 ratings — published 2008
15 editions
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The Last Detective The Last Detective (Elvis Cole, #9)
by Robert Crais
avg rating 4.10 — 571 ratings — published 2003
19 editions
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The Forgotten Man The Forgotten Man (Elvis Cole, #10)
by Robert Crais
avg rating 3.93 — 592 ratings — published 2005
14 editions
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The Two Minute Rule The Two Minute Rule
by Robert Crais
avg rating 3.81 — 579 ratings — published 2006
18 editions
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Demolition Angel Demolition Angel
by Robert Crais
avg rating 3.78 — 552 ratings — published 2000
18 editions
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Sunset Express Sunset Express (Elvis Cole, #6)
by Robert Crais
avg rating 3.98 — 502 ratings — published 1996
15 editions
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Indigo Slam Indigo Slam (Elvis Cole, #7)
by Robert Crais
avg rating 3.94 — 503 ratings — published 1997
18 editions
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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
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"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)
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"People want you to be ordinary."
Robert Crais (The Last Detective)
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