Lullaby Town (Elvis Cole Series #3)

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Overview

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 gets, and what Nelson wants is for Elvis Cole to comb the country for the airhead wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en route to becoming the third biggest filmmaker in America. It's the kind of case Cole can handle in his sleep - until it turns out to be a nightmare. For when Cole finds Nelson's wife in a small Conneticut town, she's nothing like what he expects. The lady has some unwanted - and very nasty - mob connections, which means Elvis could be opening the East Coast branch of his P.I. office . . . at the bottom of the Hudson River.

Elvis Cole is back. The laid-back L.A. private eye, who debuted to electrifying reviews and recognition in The Monkey's Raincoat, returns with his slightly psychotic partner, Joe Pike. Cole and Pike go bi-coastal, taking on the East Coast mafia and the West Coast's hottest director: a boy wonder with a big man's ego and hired muscle to match.

What People Are Saying

Eric Van Luspeader
"Crais is in a class by himself - he's quite simply the best."
Joseph Wambaugh
"Elvis Cole provides more fun for the reader than any L. A. private eye to come along in years."

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780553299519
  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 5/28/1993
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 317
  • Sales rank: 82,369
  • Series: Elvis Cole Series , #3
  • Product dimensions: 4.10 (w) x 6.90 (h) x 0.95 (d)

Meet the Author

Robert Crais
Robert Crais

Robert Crais is the 2006 recipient of the Ross Macdonald Literary Award. He is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including The Two Minute Rule, The Forgotten Man, and L.A. Requiem.

Biography

Los Angeles is known as the city of dreams, largely because so many Americans dream of breaking into the Hollywood film and television industry. In 1976, Robert Crais went west from Louisiana to pursue that very dream. As it turned out, he became one of the lucky few to break into the industry in a big way. Crais has since written for such hugely popular TV shows as Quincy, Cagney and Lacey, Miami Vice, Hill Street Blues, and L.A. Law, just to name a few. However, after achieving such success (which included a prestigious Emmy nomination) in a business that so many would give everything to break into, Robert Crais decided to step away and pursue his true dream. Frustrated by the collaborative process that comes with screenwriting, and inspired by pulp-pioneers such as Raymond Chandler, Crais became a mystery novelist. With his massively popular Elvis Cole/Joe Pike mysteries series, it seems as though success has a funny way of following Crais no matter what he decides to do.

Crais published his very first novel in 1987. The Monkey's Raincoat introduced mystery fans to Elvis Cole and Joe Pike, a pair of L.A. private investigators who would become his most-beloved recurring characters. Crais's transition from screenwriting to novel-writing was an astoundingly smooth one. The Monkey's Raincoat earned him nominations for the Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards, winning both the Anthony and Macavity for "Best Novel of the Year." Crais's publisher was so overjoyed by the novel's success that he encouraged Crais to keep the Cole/Pike team going. "I started writing these books to get away from writing other people's concepts, like TV and movies," Crais told Barnes&Noble.com. "I never expected to write these guys as a series...but the book proved to be so popular and the characters were so popular that my publisher wanted more." What followed was a series of bestselling mysteries, including Stalking the Angel (1989), Free Fall (1993), L.A. Requiem (1999), and last year's The Forgotten Man.

Although the series was not part of Crais's original plan, he still seems to hold the Cole and Pike team closer to his heart than anything he has previously written. He explained, "The characters have deepened, and I think they kind of reflect what's going on with me and the world as I see it." When asked about whether or not we can expect to see the crime-solving buddies on the big screen anytime soon, he said, "I think I would have a difficult time in the collaborative process when other people suddenly put their fingerprints on Elvis and Joe," further illustrating his personal feelings for his P.I. team.

As much as Crais loves his series, he does occasionally write novels outside of the Cole/Pike world. His latest, The Two-Minute Rule, tells the story of career criminal Max Holman, a recently released-from-prison bank robber who finds himself hunting an entirely different kind of criminal after his son is gunned down. The book has since raked in positive reviews from such publications as Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, and The Library Journal. While The Two-Minute Rule does not feature Cole and Pike, Crais fans will notice one significant similarity between his latest novel and his famous series -- the Los Angeles setting. "I can't think of a better place to set crime novels because of what Los Angeles is. Los Angeles is the main where the nation goes to make its dreams come true. When you have a place like that where so many people are risking their very identities, not just money and cash, but they're risking who they are because it's their hopes and dreams, when you have that kind of tension and that kind of friction, you can't help but have crime."

Fortunately, Crais will never have to succumb to such friction and tension since, for a success story such as he, Los Angeles completely lived up to its promise of being the city of dreams.

Good To Know

Some fun and fascinating outtakes from our interview with Crais:

"My first job was cleaning dog kennels. It was especially, ah, aromatic during those hot, humid Louisiana summers, but it prepared me for Hollywood."

"My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him-or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic."

"Fun details? Like Elvis Cole, I have a dry sense of humor. Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny. Also, I wear beautifully colored shirts like Elvis Cole, only I was wearing them before him. People will say, ‘Look, RC dresses just like Elvis Cole,' and I'll say, 'No, Elvis Cole dresses like me!' I also wear sunglasses like Joe Pike, but not indoors and not at night."

"Elvis Cole wrote two episodes of television. No lie. It happened like this: I had written episodes of Miami Vice and Jag that were rewritten by person or persons unknown -- changed so badly that I didn't want my name on them, so I used Elvis Cole's name as a pen name."

    1. Hometown:
      Los Angeles, California
    1. Date of Birth:
      June 20, 1953
    2. Place of Birth:
      Baton Rouge, Louisiana
    1. Education:
      B.S., Louisiana State University, 1976; Clarion Writers Workshop at Michigan State University
    2. Website:
      http://www.robertcrais.com

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 24, 2012

    Loved the book; hated the director!

    I love the Elvis Cole books, including this one. Hated Peter Nelsen, though. He was a thoroughly unsympathetic character and felt too much like a cariacature (sp?). Humor was great fun as always; makes the body count less stressful!

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  • Posted December 29, 2011

    Good one

    There's alot of "hand spreading" and "hissing" in this one but the story line is good and the conclusion benefits most. This one involves a spoiled Hollywood producer (it's a bit naive to think he changes as much as he does in this book) and the mafia and a woman who was trying to hide from her past (a short marriage w/the Hollywood producer) but got hooked up with the mafia. I like how Crais melded the stories together as the outcome was very nearly plausible. Again, dead bodies abound by the end but hey, they started it. I just really like Elvis and Joe - there's more Joe in this one. I started the Joe Pike series first so I've been more familiar with him and his way of doing business. Elvis working w/Joe in this series are just as good, if not better, together so I'm enjoying this series.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 29, 2011

    Elvis is the Man!

    I am a huge fan of the entire Cole/Pike series. I enjoyed Lullaby Town. Not only is there mystery and violence, the author Crais infuses his books with humor. I just found this series this past summer, and am quickly making my way through the series. They are page turners and quick reads. Thoroughly enjoyable.

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  • Posted April 23, 2011

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    9781593352547 9780307387059

    The wise-cracking private eye

    My only disappointment with this story was when it was over. Cole gets hired to find the ex-girl friend of an eccentric, wealthy producer. Reluctantly, Cole takes the case, finds the girl and then runs into a moral and self-preserving dilemma. Namely, the girl is now unwilling working for the mafia. Well-written and entertaining. Sure, it has the typical wise-cracking tough guy PI. But, it has a credible story and a grim reality of how some people live. Of course, Elvis Cole has the backing of other Robert Crais characters, like the killing machine Joe Pike. A good page-turner for detective novel fans. --Doug Setter, BSc.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 5, 2012

    Excellent private eye novel!

    The Elvis Cole series is outstanding. Well plotted, engaging characters. Addictive.

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  • Posted June 6, 2009

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    Lullaby Town is a good read

    I am in the middle of the "Elvis Cole Series" by Robert Crais. I really enjoy the books. The stories are well crafted if somewhat predictable sometimes but all in all they all have been really good reads. I will go thru about two a week sometimes. The action is fast paced and more than once I've caught myself reading or finishing a book at 2 a.m. on a work night because I couldn't put it down. Lullaby Town was one of those books. Fast paced action and great story telling make this book a must read for any action/adventure/mystery person.

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