Title In This Collection The Monkeys Raincoat Free Fall Lullaby Town Demolition Angel Voodoo River The Watchman Sunset Express Free Fall Elvis Cole is just a detective who cant say no especially to a girl in a terrible fix & Jennifer Sheridan qualifies Her fiance Mark Thurman is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit but Jennifer is sure hes in trouble the kind of serious trouble that only Cole can get him out of Five minutes after his new client leaves the office Cole & his partner the enigmatic Joe Pike are hip deep in a deadly situation as they plummet into a world of South Central gangs corrupt cops & conspiracies of silence Voodoo River Hired to uncover the past of Jodi Taylor an actress in a hit TV show Elvis leaves his native Los Angeles to head for Louisiana in search of Jodis biological parents But before he can tackle the mystery of the actresss background he is up against a whole host of eccentrics including a crazed Raid spraying housewife a Cajun thug who looks like hes been made out of spare parts & a menacing hundred year old river turtle named Luther The Watchman In Robert Crais The Watchman we have the author firing on all cylinders & Crais aficionados will know thats an experience to savour Its one of the tough longterm Crais protagonists Joe Pike who sets the edgy narrative in motion here & the narrative barely pauses for breath once one of Crais most high adrenaline novels is in motion Joe has been asked to look after a young female witness in a case involving a very dangerous gangster Lullaby Town Peter Alan Nelsen is a super successful movie director who is used to getting what he wants & what he wants is to find the wife & infant child he dumped on the road to fame Its the kind of case that Cole could handle in his sleep except that when Cole actually finds Nelsens ex wife everything takes on nightmarish proportions a nightmare which involves Cole with a nasty New York mob family & a psychokiller who is the son of the godfather Demolition Angel Meet Carol Starkey tenacious detective & bomb victim Carol Starkey protagonist of Robert Craiss new thriller Demolition Angel has been as badly damaged by life as any whiskysoaked gumshoe a bad moment three years ago cost her her lover her physical confidence & the job on the LA Bomb Squad that she loved Sunset Express On his own turf in LA Elvis Cole is embroiled in a controversial highprofile murder case Hired by the defence lawyer to investigate alleged evidence tampering by the detective on the case Cole soon begins to be more suspicious of the medialoving lawyers than the cops The Monkeys Raincoat A fantasic Joe Pike & Elvis Cole novel