Who writes the Elvis Cole crime novels?
"getting killed at the end, so that he would have a moment of tragedy that would push Elvis Cole on to the rescue of the boy. The Monkey's Raincoat The Monkey's Raincoat is a 1987 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the first in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike. Cole is a tough, wisecracking ex-Ranger with an irresistible urge to do what is morally right. The novel won the 1988 Anthony Award for ""Best Paperback Original"" at Bouchercon XIX and the 1988 Mystery Readers International Macavity Award"
"Watchman"" (2007), ""The First Rule"" (2010) and ""The Sentry"" (2011) centering on Joe Pike. Taken is a 2012 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the fifteenth in a series of linked novels centering on the character Elvis Cole. The 2005 film, ""Hostage"", was an adaptation of one of his books. Robert Crais Robert Crais (pronounced to rhyme with 'chase') (born June 20, 1953) is an American author of detective fiction. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as ""Hill Street Blues"", ""Cagney & Lacey"", ""Quincy"", ""Miami Vice"" and ""L.A. Law"". His writing is influenced by Raymond"
"Allan Cole Allan Cole (born 1943) is an American author and television writer, who has written or co-written nearly thirty books. The son of a CIA operative, Cole was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. He collaborated with Chris Bunch on the Sten science fiction series, as well the Far Kingdoms Series, and the historical novels, ""A Reckoning For Kings"" and ""Daughter Of Liberty"". He coauthored a non-fiction book—""A Cop's Life""—with his uncle, Thomas Grubb; and a fantasy novel—""Lords Of Terror""—with Russian author Nick Perumov. His solo books include the fantasy"
"Martina Cole Martina Cole (born Eilidh Martina Cole, on 30 March 1959) is a British crime writer, businesswoman and occasional television presenter. Cole was brought up in Aveley, Essex. she has released twenty-two novels about crime, most of which examine London's gangster underworld. Four of her novels, ""Dangerous Lady"", ""The Jump"", ""The Take"" and ""The Runaway"" have been adapted into high-rating television dramas. She has achieved sales of over fourteen million in the UK alone and her tenth novel, ""The Know"", spent seven weeks on ""The Sunday Times"" hardback best-sellers list. Cole was born in Essex, England, to Irish Catholic"
"for ""Best First Novel"" and the 1988 Mystery Readers International Macavity Award for ""Best Paperback Original"". It has since been selected as one of the ""100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century"" by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. In 2006 Crais was awarded the Ross Macdonald Literary Award and in 2010 the Private Eye Writers of America's (PWA) Lifetime Achievement Award ""The Eye"". In 2014 Crais received the Mystery Writers of America's (MWA) Grand Master Award. Crais novels include: ""Demolition Angel,"" ""Hostage,"" ""Suspect"", and ""The Two-Minute Rule."" Most of Crais' books feature the characters Elvis Cole and Joe Pike, with ""The"
"Kresley Cole Kresley Cole is an American #1 ""New York Times"" bestselling author of paranormal romance and young adult novels. She has received three Romance Writers of America (RWA) RITA Awards and was inducted into the RWA Hall of Fame in 2009. Kresley Cole is the #1 ""New York Times"" bestselling author of the Immortals After Dark paranormal series, the young adult Arcana Chronicles series, the Gamemakers series, and five award-winning historical romances. A master’s grad and former athlete, she has traveled over much of the world and draws from those experiences to create her memorable characters and settings. Her"
"Ed Lynskey Ed Lynskey is an American poet, critic, and novelist, mostly of crime fiction. He was born in Washington, D.C. where he still lives and works. He writes five mystery series, including the P.I. Frank Johnson Mystery Series, the Isabel & Alma Trumbo Cozy Mystery Series, the Piper & Bill Robin Cozy Mystery Series, the Hope Jones (Nozy Cat) Cozy Mystery Series, and the Ginny Dove Cozy Mystery Series. His creative work has been reviewed in ""Publishers Weekly"", ""Booklist"", ""Library Journal"", ""Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine"", ""San Diego Union-Tribune"", ""London Free Press"", ""Halifax Chronicle-Herald"", ""Lansing State Journal"", ""The Virginian-Pilot"", ""Tucson"
"a computer."" Burke is the daughter of famed fellow crime novelist James Lee Burke. She currently lives in New York City and is married. Alafair Burke Alafair S. Burke (born October 1969) is an American crime novelist, professor of law, and legal commentator. She is the New York Times bestselling author of two series of crime novels—one featuring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher; the other, Portland, Oregon, prosecutor Samantha Kincaid. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Burke was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and raised primarily in Wichita, Kansas, where her mother, Pearl Pai Chu, was"
"he went freelance in 2002, editing fewer books in favour of writing more of his own. Cole's first original fiction was a series called ""The Wereling"", a trilogy of young adult horror books published by Bloomsbury. He followed this up with a further trilogy detailing the adventures of misfit criminal teen genius Jonah Wish and his friends – ""Thieves Like Us"", ""Thieves Till We Die"" (also released as ""The Aztec Code"") and ""The Bloodline Cipher"". He has also written several more Doctor Who titles, including four tying in with the new series. Cole's most successful titles to date are the"
"Joe Robert Cole Joe Robert Cole is an American film director, screenwriter, film editor, actor, television writer and television producer. He is best known for his Emmy Award-nominated and Writers Guild of America Award-winning work on the first season of the true crime anthology television series ""American Crime Story"", titled """", and for co-writing the film ""Black Panther"". Cole, an only child, moved around a lot growing up, which he felt ""prepared"" him to be a writer, a desire he only discovered during college. He soon applied to the University of California, Berkeley. During his tenure at the university, Cole"
"Adrian Cole (writer) Adrian Christopher Synnot Cole (born 22 July 1949 in Plymouth, England), is a British writer. He is known for his Dream Lords trilogy, the ""Omaran Saga"" and ""Star Requiem"" series, and his young adult novels, Moorstones and The Sleep of Giants. Adrian Cole was born in Plymouth, Devonshire in 1949. Cole's father was in the Army, and Adrian spent three years with his family in Malaya when he was a young child, before settling back in Devon. He became interested in fantasy and science fiction at an early age, through ""Tarzan of the Apes"", ""King Solomon's Mines"","
"writing. He is the uncle of Edie Falco, an American actress known for her role of Carmela Soprano on the cable TV drama ""The Sopranos"". Edward Falco Edward Falco is an American author. His latest book is the poetry collection ""Wolf Moon Blood Moon"" (LSU, 2017). ""Toughs"", his previous novel, follows the lives of fictional characters and their relationship to the notorious criminal Vince ""Mad Dog"" Coll, as well as Lucky Luciano, Owney Madden, Dutch Shultz, and other gangland figures. ""The Family Corleone"" (Grand Central, 2012) , based on a screenplay by Mario Puzo, spent several weeks on ""The New"
"8, 2007. In 2017, the English comedian Rob Kemp created and performed the stage show ""The Elvis Dead"", a retelling of Evil Dead II in the style of Elvis Presley. Many bands have referenced ""The Evil Dead"" films in their songs and videos: Evil Dead Evil Dead is an American horror film franchise created by Sam Raimi consisting of four feature films and a television series. The series revolves around the ""Necronomicon Ex-Mortis"", an ancient Sumerian text which wreaks havoc upon a group of cabin inhabitants in a wooded area in Tennessee (later confirmed to be Elk Rapids in Michigan)."
"published a defense of Cline in June 2016 regarding his eviction. Edward Cline Edward Cline (born 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist and essayist. He is best known for his ""Sparrowhawk"" series of novels, which are set in England and Virginia before the American Revolutionary War. His other fiction includes a suspense series (featuring American entrepreneur Merritt Fury), a contemporary detective series (featuring Chess Hanrahan, who solves paradoxical murders), and a period detective series (featuring Cyrus Skeen in 1920s San Francisco). Outside of his work as a novelist, Cline is known for his writings on aesthetics, his defenses"
"Carole Nelson Douglas Carole Nelson Douglas (born November 15, 1944) is an American writer of sixty novels and many short stories. She has written in many genres, but is best known for two popular mystery series, the ""Irene Adler"" Sherlockian suspense novels and the ""Midnight Louie"" mystery series. Douglas was a theater and English literature major in college. After graduation, she worked as a newspaper reporter and then editor in the [Minneapolis-St. Paul] area. During her time there, she discovered a long, expensive classified advertisement offering a black cat named Midnight Louie to the ""right"" home for one dollar and"
"Alafair Burke Alafair S. Burke (born October 1969) is an American crime novelist, professor of law, and legal commentator. She is the New York Times bestselling author of two series of crime novels—one featuring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher; the other, Portland, Oregon, prosecutor Samantha Kincaid. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Burke was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and raised primarily in Wichita, Kansas, where her mother, Pearl Pai Chu, was a school librarian and her father, fellow crime novelist James Lee Burke, was a professor of English. She traces her fascination with crime to"
"in the Detection Club in 2010. In 2012 she was awarded the George N. Dove Award by the Popular Culture Association for 'Outstanding Contribution to the Serious Study of Mystery and Crime Fiction', in recognition of her work as co-organiser of the annual St Hilda's (Oxford) Crime and Mystery Conference since 1994. Charles's novels are mostly set against the background of the Church of England. Kate Charles Kate Charles (born 1950) is an American crime writer. Kate Charles was born Carol Fosher in Cincinnati. Her family moved to Bloomington, Illinois, when she was 10. She graduated from Bloomington High School"
"Michael Connelly Michael Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus ""Harry"" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. Connelly is the bestselling author of thirty-one novels and one work of non-fiction. With over 60 million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into forty foreign languages, he is one of the most successful writers working today. His very first novel, ""The Black Echo"", won the prestigious Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1992. In 2002, Clint Eastwood directed and"
"Joe R. Lansdale Joe Richard Lansdale (born October 28, 1951) is an American writer, author, martial arts expert, and martial arts instructor. Lansdale has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense. He has also written for comics as well as """". He has written 45 novels and published 30 short story collections along with many chapbooks and comic book adaptations. Several of his novels have been adapted to film and to television series. Frequent features of Lansdale's writing are usually deeply ironic, strange or absurd situations or characters, such as Elvis Presley"
"prisons. She is a patron of the single-parent charity Gingerbread, and also a patron of Women's Aid. Since her 20s she has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis after breaking both arms as a child. The arthritis has worsened over time, and now makes it painful for her when writing. Martina Cole Martina Cole (born Eilidh Martina Cole, on 30 March 1959) is a British crime writer, businesswoman and occasional television presenter. Cole was brought up in Aveley, Essex. she has released twenty-two novels about crime, most of which examine London's gangster underworld. Four of her novels, ""Dangerous Lady"", ""The Jump"", ""The"
"first penned by Charlie Higson, with four new books to further explore the life of the teenage James Bond. The first of these, ""Shoot to Kill"", was published in the UK on 6 November 2014; Cole is credited as Steve Cole for this work. Cole was brought up in rural Bedfordshire. He attended the University of East Anglia 1989-92 where he read English Literature and Film Studies, graduating his BA course with first class honours. After a brief stint working in local radio with BBC Radio Bedfordshire (now Three Counties) he became a junior assistant at BBC Children's Magazines in"
"Jessica, and Emma. Collin Wilcox (writer) Collin Wilcox (September 21, 1924 – July 12, 1996) was an American mystery writer who published 30 books in 30 years. Born in Detroit, Michigan, September 21, 1924, his first book was ""The Black Door"" (1967), featuring a sleuth possessing extrasensory perception. His major series of novels was about Lieutenant Frank Hastings of the San Francisco Police Department. Titles in the Hastings series included ""Hire a Hangman"", ""Dead Aim"", ""Hiding Place"", ""Long Way Down"" and ""Stalking Horse"". Two of his last books, ""Full Circle"" and ""Find Her a Grave"", featured a new hero-sleuth, Alan"
"2016 with five others by journalist/writer Ace Atkins. Parker's ""Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch"" series has been continued by actor and screenwriter Robert Knott. with three novels published through 2016. The ""Sunny Randall"" series received a 7th installment titled ""Blood Feud"" on November 27th, 2018. Written by long time friend of Parker, sports journalist, and bestselling author, Mike Lupica. ""Surrogate""' (1991)"" A short story published in the crime anthology ""New Crimes 3"" Robert B. Parker Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer of fiction, primarily of the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works"
"Kate Ellis (author) Kate Ellis is a British author of crime fiction, best known for a series of detective novels, which blends history with mystery, featuring policeman Wesley Peterson. Ellis' first novel, ""The Merchant's House"", published in 1998, received positive reviews and was chosen as one of the ten best summer reads by ""Woman's Weekly"". She has since written 21 more novels in this series, many to critical acclaim. Ellis has also written five novels set in Yorkshire as part of the Joe Plantagenet series and an historical crime novel, ""The Devil's Priest"", which is set in 16th century Liverpool."
"R. L. Stine Robert Lawrence Stine (; born October 8, 1943), sometimes known as Jovial Bob Stine and Eric Affabee, is an American novelist, short story writer, television producer, screenwriter, and executive editor. Stine has been referred to as the ""Stephen King of children's literature"" and is the author of hundreds of horror fiction novels, including the books in the ""Fear Street"", ""Goosebumps"", ""Rotten School,"" ""Mostly Ghostly,"" and ""The Nightmare Room"" series. Some of his other works include a ""Space Cadets"" trilogy, two ""Hark"" gamebooks, and dozens of joke books. As of 2008, Stine's books have sold over 400 million"
"Manning Coles Manning Coles is the pseudonym of two British writers, Adelaide Frances Oke Manning (1891–1959) and Cyril Henry Coles (1899–1965), who wrote many spy thrillers from the early 1940s through the early 1960s. The fictional protagonist in 26 of their books was Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon, who works for a department of the Foreign Office, usually referred to in the novels as ""MI5"" (see Tommy Hambledon, below). Manning and Coles were neighbors in East Meon, Hampshire. Coles worked for British Intelligence in both the World Wars. Manning worked for the War Office during World War I. Their first books were"
"Denise Hamilton Denise Hamilton is an American crime novelist, journalist and editor of the Edgar-award winning anthologies ""Los Angeles Noir"" and ""Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics"". Hamilton’s five Eve Diamond crime novels have been short-listed for many awards, including the Edgar Award in mystery, Willa Cather award in literary fiction and the UK's Creasey Dagger Award. Hamilton’s novels draw on the city’s history, politics, diversity, and culture, and she calls her hometown of Los Angeles “The Ultimate Femme Fatale"". Her first novel, ""The Jasmine Trade"", was a national bestseller that grew out of a ""Los Angeles Times"" story she"
"Alex Barclay Eve ""Alex"" Barclay (born Dublin, Ireland in 1974) is an Irish crime writer. Barclay studied journalism at university and worked for a period in fashion and beauty journalism as a copywriter in the RTÉ Guide. In 2003, she left the fashion industry to write ""Darkhouse"", the first of two novels featuring NYPD detective Joe Lucchesi. Her second novel, ""The Caller"", was released in 2007, and ""Last Call"" in 2008. She won the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award at the Irish Book Awards for her third novel, ""Blood Runs Cold"". NYPD Detective Joe Lucchesi FBI Special Agent Ren Bryce"
"Cris Cole Cris Cole is a British writer and producer, born in Wallingford, England. He grew up in London and attended Elliott Comprehensive School in Roehampton, London. After leaving Elliott School in Putney, London, Cole worked as a professional guitarist and bass player for the next 15 years, playing in bands including Jimmy The Hoover, The Directions and The Hollywood Killers. Cole turned to writing and wrote a pilot for Tiger Aspect/BBC, called ""Embassy"", starring Robert Daws. Cole has multiple other TV credits, including episodes of ""Night and Day"", ""Twisted Tales"" and ""The Bill"", feature film credits, including ""Lovebite"" (Ecosse"
"a plot to rob the Riviera Casino during a convention of Elvis impersonators in Las Vegas. The films also featured many real Elvis Tribute Artist from Las Vegas as background players, dancers and extras. Bubba Ho-tep is the title of a novella by Joe R. Lansdale which originally appeared in the anthology ""The King Is Dead: Tales of Elvis Post-Mortem"" (edited by Paul M. Sammon, Delta 1994) and was adapted as a 2002 horror-black comedy film starring Bruce Campbell as Elvis Presley—who escaped the pressures of his fame long ago by impersonating an Elvis impersonator and is now a resident"
"back to the United States at the age of 17 to attend Western Michigan University for one year, then transferred to Kalamazoo College, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1996. After dropping out of medical school at the University of Michigan, Cole enrolled in an African art history program at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, then pursued a doctorate in art history at Columbia University. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Cole is the author of four books: a novella, ""Every Day is for the Thief""; a novel, ""Open City""; a collection of more"
"The Real Cool Killers The Real Cool Killers is a Hardboiled Crime Fiction novel written by Chester Himes. Published in 1959, it is the second book in the Grave Digger Jones & Coffin Ed Johnson Mysteries. The protagonists of the novel, Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed, are a pair of black detectives who patrol the dangerous slums of Harlem. The book was originally published in French under the title Il pleut des coups durs. Ulysses Galen, a white man slumming in Harlem, is attacked in a bar by a black man with a knife; fleeing outside, he attracts the"
"and his wife, Pearl (née Pai Chu), own a home in Lolo, Montana. The couple have four children, including Alafair Burke, a law professor and best-selling crime writer. James Lee Burke James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936) is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won Edgar Awards for ""Black Cherry Blues"" (1990) and ""Cimarron Rose"" (1998), and has also been presented with the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin (""Heaven's Prisoners"") and then Tommy Lee"