Recommendations based on The Monkey's Raincoatby Robert Crais

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  1. Stalking the Angel

    by Robert Crais
    Private detective Elvis Cole is hired to find a missing Japanese heirloom, but the case takes a dark turn.

    The second blistering Elvis Cole novel from the bestselling author of THE FIRST RULE.,Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable, something that belonged to someone else: a rare ... (Goodreads)

  2. The Last Detective

    by Robert Crais
    Private detective unravels a web of lies as he searches for missing persons.

    P.I. Elvis Cole’s relationship with attorney Lucy Chenier is strained. Then the unthinkable happens. While Lucy is away on business and her ten-year-old son Ben is staying with Elvis, the boy ... (Goodreads)

  3. Lullaby Town

    by Robert Crais
    Private investigator Elvis Cole helps a famous Hollywood director find his long-lost son, leading to a dangerous journey through the seedy underbelly of LA.

    Hollywood's newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelson, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he ... (Goodreads)

  4. The Bone Collector

    by Jeffery Deaver
    A detective and a forensic specialist race against time to stop a serial killer.

    Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics – until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging ... (Goodreads)

  5. The Neon Rain

    by James Lee Burke
    A detective's search for justice in a crime-ridden city, uncovering long-buried truths.

    While fishing on a back country bayou New Orleans Police Department officer Dave Robicheaux finds a body. Robicheaux, once a U.S. Army infantry lieutenant who fought in the Vietnam War , , becomes ... (Wikipedia)

  6. Killing Floor

    by Lee Child
    An ex-military cop is thrust into a dangerous criminal underworld to solve the murder of a woman.

    Jack Reacher gets off a Greyhound bus in the town of Margrave, Georgia , because he remembers his brother mentioning that a blues musician named Blind Blake had died there. Much to his surprise, ... (Wikipedia)

  7. The Godwulf Manuscript

    by Robert B. Parker
    Detective investigates a mysterious case involving an ancient manuscript.

    Set in the early 1970s, this novel serves as the introduction to Spenser , a private investigator in Boston . Spenser, who served as an infantryman in the 1st Infantry Division during the Korean War ... (Wikipedia)

  8. Certain Prey

    by John Sandford
    Lucas Davenport, a detective, is on the hunt for a hitwoman who is targeting a wealthy businessman. The chase is on.

    Attorney Carmel Loan is beautiful, intelligent, ambitious - and used to getting what she wants. When she becomes infatuated with fellow barrister Hale Allen, she isn't going to let a little thing ... (Goodreads)

  9. The Black Echo

    by Michael Connelly
    A former LAPD detective is drawn into a web of mystery and crime as he investigates the death of a Vietnam vet.

    The novel centers on Harry Bosch , a Vietnam veteran who served as a " tunnel rat " (nicknamed Hari Kari Bosch), with the 1st Infantry Division — a specialized soldier whose job it was to go into the ... (Wikipedia)

  10. A Drink Before the War

    by Dennis Lehane
    Private detectives investigate a kidnapping case, uncovering dark secrets of the city.

    Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro receive a job from three state politicians, Sterling Mulkern, Jim Vurnan and Brian Paulson, to recover documents from a former cleaning ... (Wikipedia)

  11. The Deep Blue Good-By

    by John D. MacDonald
    Private investigator's search for the truth behind a missing woman and the secrets lurking beneath the surface.

    The Deep Blue Good-by introduces readers to McGee, his place of residence, the Busted Flush (a houseboat he won in a poker game), and its mooring place, slip F-18 at the Bahia Mar Marina in Fort ... (Wikipedia)

  12. Rules of Prey

    by John Sandford
    A detective hunts for a serial killer, uncovering secrets of a tangled criminal underworld.

    Welcome. You are about to meet Lucas Davenport, the police detective in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who does it his way. The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and ... (Goodreads)

  13. A Darkness More Than Night

    by Michael Connelly
    Detective Harry Bosch investigates a series of murders, uncovering secrets and lies in the process.

    Terry McCaleb, the retired FBI agent who starred in the bestseller "Blood Work," is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate aseries of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ... (Goodreads)

  14. The Poet

    by Michael Connelly
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's descent into darkness, as he unravels a web of deceit and murder.

    Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how–he decides to write the story. But ... (Goodreads)

  15. Echo Burning

    by Lee Child
    A former military man is hired for a dangerous job to protect a woman and her daughter from an abusive husband.

    Jack Reacher breaks a bully's nose and finger after being repeatedly provoked in a Texas saloon, so when the bully turns out to be a local cop and shows up with three of his colleagues the following ... (Wikipedia)

  16. In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner

    by Elizabeth George
    Detective Lynley and Havers investigate a murder in the Lake District, uncovering secrets and lies in a tight-knit community.

    A theatrical producer shoots himself on the night of his greatest triumph. A young woman camping on the Derbyshire moors is bludgeoned to death. A motorcyclist is found stabbed to death in the center ... (Goodreads)

  17. Mystic River

    by Dennis Lehane
    Three childhood friends are reunited by a tragedy that exposes their dark past and tests their loyalty.

    The novel revolves around three boys who grow up as friends in Boston — Dave Boyle, Sean Devine, and Jimmy Marcus. When the story opens, Dave is abducted by child molesters while he, Sean, and Jimmy ... (Wikipedia)

  18. Tourist Season

    by Carl Hiaasen
    A journalist investigates the mysterious killings of tourists in the Florida Keys.

    Las Noches de Diciembre ( Spanish , "The Nights of December") is a small terrorist cell led by rogue newspaper columnist Skip Wiley, calling himself El Fuego .. Skip believes that the only way to ... (Wikipedia)

  19. Shutter Island

    by Dennis Lehane
    A U.S. Marshal investigates a psychiatric hospital on a remote island, uncovering chilling secrets and an unexpected truth.

    In 1954, widower U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, go on a ferry boat to Shutter Island, the home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane, to investigate ... (Wikipedia)

  20. Black Cherry Blues

    by James Lee Burke
    Detective Dave Robicheaux investigates a murder while confronting his own demons in the Louisiana bayou.

    BACK IN THE UNDERWORLD HE TRIED TO LEAVE BEHIND Haunted by the memory of his wife's murder and his father's untimely death, ex-New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux spends his days in a fish-and-tackle ... (Goodreads)

  21. The Ghostway

    by Tony Hillerman
    Navajo Tribal Police Officer Jim Chee investigates a murder and a missing person case, while also dealing with his personal life.

    Hosteen Joseph Joe, finishing his laundry in Shiprock, New Mexico , answers questions put by a man in a new car, about Leroy Gorman. Joe does not know that man, but studies the Polaroid photo of him ... (Wikipedia)

  22. Secret Prey

    by John Sandford
    Lucas Davenport investigates a murder case involving a wealthy businessman and his family, uncovering dark secrets and dangerous alliances.

    The company chairman lay dead in the woods, his orange hunting jacket punctured by a bullet at close range. Around him stood the four executives with whom he had been hunting, each with a reason not ... (Goodreads)

  23. Coyote Waits

    by Tony Hillerman
    Navajo Tribal Police investigate a murder with ties to ancient Navajo witchcraft.

    Officers Chee and Nez agree to meet at Red Rock trading post for a break from patrol. Chee hears Nez laughing on the radio about seeing the person who has been defacing local rock formations with ... (Wikipedia)

  24. A Thief of Time

    by Tony Hillerman
    Navajo Tribal Police investigate the disappearance of an archaeologist and the theft of ancient artifacts.

    Emma had the brain surgery, but she did not survive it. Joe Leaphorn is grief-stricken; he is on his final leave before quitting the Navajo Tribal Police. BLM agent Thatcher takes him along on a call ... (Wikipedia)

  25. The Sins of the Fathers

    by Lawrence Block
    Private investigator Matt Scudder is hired to investigate a series of murders that seem to be connected to a group of men who committed a crime together years ago.

    The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer—a minister's son—hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's father has come to Matthew Scudder for answers, ... (Goodreads)

  26. The Coffin Dancer

    by Jeffery Deaver
    A daring criminal eludes capture from an FBI agent in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase.

    Detective Lincoln Rhyme , the foremost criminal inspector in the Capitol as a Peacekeeper, is put on the trail of the Coffin Dancer, a cunning professional killer who has continually big-brained the ... (Wikipedia)

  27. The Fog

    by James Herbert
    A deadly fog descends on London, bringing with it a terrifying and deadly force that threatens to wipe out humanity.

    John Holman is a worker for the Department of the Environment investigating a Ministry of Defence base in a small rural village. An unexpected earthquake swallows his car releasing a fog that had ... (Wikipedia)

  28. The Tin Roof Blowdown

    by James Lee Burke
    Detective Dave Robicheaux investigates the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, uncovering corruption and violence in New Orleans.

    This is James Lee Burke's latest mystery featuring Dave Robicheaux. It is also much more than that. The story begins with the shooting of two would-be looters in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, ... (Goodreads)

  29. Divine Justice

    by David Baldacci
    A political thriller about a vigilante seeking justice for a murdered family.

    What's the central theme in "Divine Justice?" Oliver Stone is the most wanted man in America. No, not the maverick filmmaker Oliver Stone but the covert agent whose real name is John Carr. Men in the ... (Goodreads)

  30. The Passage

    by Justin Cronin
    A post-apocalyptic tale of survival, as the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.

    The novel is broken into 11 parts of varying lengths. The story itself is broken into two sections: the first and shorter section covers the origins of the virus and its outbreak, while the second is ... (Wikipedia)