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Demolition Angelby Robert CraisISBN 034543448X (0-345-43448-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Demolition Angel'Book summary:Penzler Pick, May 2000: Like many authors with ongoing characters, Robert Crais has taken a break from his famous private eye. After eight novels featuring Elvis Cole and his loyal sidekick Joe Pike, Crais has created Carol Starkey, a bomb squad veteran now doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the detonation that killed Carol's partner and lover, but she is still severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can't bear to look in the mirror, and she hasn't been with another man since David Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol.
When a bomb call takes the life of another colleague, Carol begins to investigate a series of explosions that seem to be designed to exterminate bomb technicians. She soon realizes that she's "the one that got away." With the help of an FBI agent whom she loathes professionally for interfering with her job but finds attractive anyway, Carol must track down one of the most frighteningly brilliant killers of the modern age.
This edgy thriller's protagonist is one that the reader at first may have difficulty liking, but she's got a background and history that make her truly three-dimensional. One hopes that Crais, one of the handful of young crime writers capable of writing consistently luminous prose, will continue to give us characters like Carol Starkey to star in his always powerful portraits of modern-day Los Angeles. --Otto Penzler [via]
The Forgotten Manby Robert CraisISBN 0345451910 (0-345-45191-0)
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Free Fall: Library Editionby Robert CraisISBN 0553092421 (0-553-09242-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Hostage : A Novelby Robert CraisISBN 0345434498 (0-345-43449-8)
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Indigo Slamby Robert CraisISBN 0345435648 (0-345-43564-8)
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L. A. Requiem WHSby Robert CraisISBN 0304364215 (0-304-36421-5)
Softcover, Orion Books Limited
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L.A. Requiemby Robert CraisISBN 0345434471 (0-345-43447-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L.A. Requiem'Book summary:More than 10 years ago, I was shocked to learn that some puerile piece of fluff had won the Edgar for Best Paperback Original, when it was so obvious to me and virtually everyone else in the Western Hemisphere that the award should have gone to The Monkey's Raincoat, the book that introduced Elvis Cole, private eye, and is to this day one of the funniest books I've ever read.
The terrific Elvis Cole series has grown through the years, each book better than the last, but nothing prepared me for the quantum leap (yes, it's a cliché, but it belongs here) that Crais has made with L.A. Requiem. It's not as funny as the other books in the series, but it's a beautifully plotted detective story, rich with police procedure, and it will keep even the most sophisticated reader at sea right until the end. And that's what elevates this book to the level of literature.
This one is more about Joe Pike, Elvis's silent sidekick, than it is about Elvis. We learn, through Pike's own eyes, how his childhood made him the way he is today. It's also about a friendship so strong that it threatens Elvis's relationship with his beloved Lucy. It is a tender but dark book--a serial killer book--but it doesn't attempt to outgross the other serial killer books on the shelf. It is funny at times and chilling at other times, making it one of the rare books that can't help but linger in the memory long after it's been read and put away. --Otto Penzler [via]
The Last Detectiveby Robert CraisISBN 0345451902 (0-345-45190-2)
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Lullaby Townby Robert CraisISBN 0553081977 (0-553-08197-7)
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The Monkey's Raincoatby Robert CraisISBN 0140123237 (0-14-012323-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monkey's Raincoat'Book summary:Elvis Cole, a literate, wisecracking Vietnam vet, finds himself embroiled in an investigation into a missing husband and son that could cost him his life. [via]
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- The Monkey's Raincoat: ISBN 0553275852 (0-553-27585-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Monkey's Raincoat: ISBN 0553263366 (0-553-26336-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Monkey's Raincoat: ISBN 0385470088 (0-385-47008-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Monkey's Raincoat: ISBN 0140123237 (0-14-012323-7)
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- The Monkey's Raincoat: ISBN 0553275852 (0-553-27585-2)
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Mystery Streetby Robert CraisISBN 0451204360 (0-451-20436-0)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mystery Street'Book summary:Commemorating the 20th anniversary of The Private Eye Writers of America, this one-of-a-kind collection features original stories set on some of the world's most notorious streets-and written by some of the world's best-known mystery writers...
Includes stories by:
Jack Bludis * Max Allan Collins * Loren D. Estleman * Carolina Garcia-Aguilera * Jerry Kennealy * Patricia McFall * Maan Meyers * Deborah Morgan * Warren Murphy * Percy Spurlark Parker * Marcus Pelegrimas * S.J. Rozan * Dan A. Sproul * Tom Sweeney [via]More editions of Mystery Street:
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Stalking the Angelby Robert CraisISBN 0553286447 (0-553-28644-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalking the Angel'Book summary:Hired by a hotel magnate to locate a priceless Japanese manuscript, L.A. private eye Elvis Cole encounters the notorious Yakuza, the Japanese Mob, and is drawn into a game of sexual obsession, amorality, and evil. [via]
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Sunset Expressby Robert CraisISBN 0345454944 (0-345-45494-4)
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