Robert Crais - Page 2
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Val McDermid
- Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill
Elvis Cole is an LA private eye with a .38 who refuses to grow up. What he isn't is a bleeding heart. So when fifteen-year-old Teri Hewitt asks him to find her father he knows he should refuse. But saying no to a pretty girl is not one of his strong points.
Teri says her father is a printer ... It's the truth but not the whole truth: Hewitt's a master counterfeiter. Soon Elvis is running head to head with the Russian Mafia and the US Federal Marshals, dodging bullets and his girlfriend's ex-husband. Teri Hewitt is one whole lot of trouble Cole should have left to the professionals.
'Move Elvis Cole to the place of honour on my bookshelf. Crais is a terrific writer' Sue Grafton.
'A new star on the private eye scene ... dazzling' Tony Hillerman
'The kind of bravura performance only a pro can give' Kirkus Reviews
'Terrific ... should be mentioned in the same breath as Robert B. Parker, Tony Hillerman, Sue Grafton and James Lee Burke' Houston Chronicle
'Crais knows his way around a wisecrack and a narrative sucker-punch ... enormously appealing' San Francisco Chronicle
'Outstanding characters, tight plot and scintillating prose style' Mystery Scene Magazine
'Intelligent, perceptive, hard, clean' James Ellroy
'Out on the West Coast, where private eyes thrive like avocado trees, Robert Crais has created an interesting and amusing hero in Elvis Cole ... definitely new' Wall Street Journal
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