In the glamorous, cutthroat world of Hollywood, the brilliant but volatile director Peter Alan Nelsen, known as the 'King of Adventure,' demands that private investigator Elvis Cole track down the estranged wife and infant child he abandoned years ago. What seems like a straightforward missing persons case, one Cole could typically handle in his sleep, quickly spirals into a labyrinthine nightmare. When Cole locates Nelsen's ex-wife in a quiet Connecticut town, she is far from the simple, forgotten figure he expected. Instead, she is entangled with dangerous and very 'nasty' mob connections, forcing Cole to navigate a perilous landscape of organized crime far removed from the glitz of Tinseltown. As the stakes escalate, Elvis Cole finds himself not just searching for a family, but fighting to keep his own life as he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to drag him down to the bottom of the Hudson River. This case pushes Cole to his limits, blending his signature wit with intense suspense and deadly peril.
Critical Reception
"Praised for its sharp wit and compelling protagonist, 'Lullaby Town' solidified Robert Crais's reputation as a master of the private-eye novel, introducing a detective hailed as one of the best since Travis McGee."