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  1. Joe Pike Series by Robert Crais. 7 primary works • 8 total works. Book 1. The Watchman. by Robert Crais. 4.13 · 26,662 Ratings · 1,237 Reviews · published 2007 · 89 editions. To pay back an old debt, Pike is coerced into prot… Want to Read. Rate it: Book 2. The First Rule. by Robert Crais.

    • Publication Order of Elvis Cole & Joe Pike Books
    • Elvis Cole
    • Joe Pike
    • The Monkey’s Raincoat
    • Stalking The Angel
    • Other Novels Starring Elvis and Joe
    • Awards and Nominations
    • Films
    • About The Author

    Starring in the Robert Crais novels, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are fictional detectives and partners. Most of these novels have Elvis as the first person narrator and the main focus. However, a few novels, The Watchman, The First Rule, as well as The Sentry center more on Joe Pike. Elvis and Joe are first introduced in Crais’s novel The Monkey’s Rain...

    Named after “ The King ” and proclaimed the “ World’s Greatest Detective,” Elvis Cole is a private detective in Hollywood, California. The first case of his ever written about was with Elen Lang in The Monkey’s Raincoat, when she hires Elvis and Joe to find her missing son and husband. His unusually-decorated office leads readers to believe he is a...

    Joe Pike plays the role of Elvis’s strong, silent partner in this detective series. Rumored to only supposed to be part of the first novel of this series, Crais decided after The Monkey’s Raincoat to give Pike a more permanent role after proving to be too difficult to kill off, and centered more on him for the first time in The Watchman, written in...

    The first of the Cole and Pike novels, The Monkey’s Raincoat, introduces thirteen (13) year partners, Elvis and Joe working as private detectives in Hollywood. Their first case involves finding the missing husband and son of Ellen Lang in an investigation filled with drugs, sex, and murder.

    In the second novel of this series, Stalking the Angel, Elvis and Joe have to help Bradley Warren track down the lost thirteenth century Japanese manuscript, the Hagakure in Las Angeles’s Little Tokyo. Along the way the run into the notorious Japanese mafia known as the Yakuza.

    Elvis and Joe go on to star in 13 other novels including, Lullaby Town, published in the year 1992, Free Fall in 1993, Voodoo River in 1995, Sunset Express in 1996, Indigo Slam in 1997, L.A. Reqium in 1999, The Last Detective in 2002, The Forgotten Man in 2005, The Watchman in 2007, Chasing Darkness in 2008, The First Rule in 2010, and lastly The S...

    The Monkey’s Raincoat received an Anthony Award and a Macavity Award, and was nominated for an Edgar Award and Shamus Award. Lullaby Town was nominated for both an Anthony Award and Shamus Award. Free Fall was nominated for an Edgar Award. Sunset Express was the winner of the Shamus Award, and a Publisher’s Weekly – Best Books of 1996 Selection. In...

    None of the Cole and Pike novels were ever made into films. It is unlikely that there ever will be films produced as Crais has no intention of selling the rights to these characters.

    Robert Crais was born on June 20, 1953 in Independence Louisiana and currently lives with his wife and three cats in the Santa Monica Mountains in California. He was adopted as a child and has no siblings. His inspirations for writing were Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammet, Ernest Hemmingway, Robert B. Parker, and John Steinbeck. In the year 1976, ...

  2. Series list: Joe Pike Novels (6 Books) by Robert Crais. A sortable list in reading order and chronological order with publication date, genre, and rating.

  3. Below is a listing of Robert's novels in order of publication. Information on these novels, including descriptions, excerpts, and reviews, is accessible by clicking on a novel's title. Note: The year of each novel’s original publication is in parenthesis next to the title. Elvis Cole/Joe Pike Novels. (listed in order of publication)

  4. Edgar Award-winning author Robert Crais' Elvis Cole and Joke Pike series follows the pair as they solve crimes in Los Angeles.

  5. Joe Pike and his partner Elvis Cole must solve the murder of an old friend and his entire family in this gripping thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais. When Frank Meyer and his family are executed during a home invasion, the police begin investigating the secret life they're sure Meyer had.

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