Robert Crais

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Robert Crais

Robert Crais (born June 20, 1953 in Independence , Louisiana ) is an American crime writer .

Life

Robert Crais grew up in a family of oil workers, trained as a mechanical engineer, wrote short stories, made amateur films, then left Louisiana at the age of 23 and went to Hollywood. In 1976 he was a participant in the renowned Clarion workshop for budding science fiction and fantasy authors. He first implemented his literary talent in Hollywood as a successful writer for TV series. Some of these successful series were broadcast in Germany, such as B. Quincy , Hill Street Police Station , Miami Vice, or Cagney & Lacey . In the mid-1980s, he realized his original desire to write novels and published his first detective novel The Monkeys Raincoat in 1987 with the two private detectives Elvis Cole and Joe Pike . Crais sees himself as influenced by great writers such as Raymond Chandler , Dashiell Hammett , Ernest Hemingway , Robert B. Parker and John Steinbeck . His novels have received numerous nominations and awards for the most important awards in crime fiction. Today the author lives with his family in Santa Monica , California .

Works

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike series

  • 1987 The Monkeys Raincoat
    • The dangerous ways of Elvis Cole, German by Jürgen Bürger, Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1989. ISBN 3-404-19128-5
    • also as: Kidnapping, same translation, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998. ISBN 3-499-43301-X
  • 1989 Stalking the Angel
    • The black world of Elvis Cole, German by Jürgen Bürger, Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1990. ISBN 3-404-19143-9
    • also as: Die Rache der Samurai, same translation, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998. ISBN 3-499-43302-8
  • 1992 Lullaby Town
    • Lullaby Town, German by Jörn Ingwersen, Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1992. ISBN 3-404-19166-8
    • also as: Dirty business, same translation, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998. ISBN 3-499-43310-9
  • 1993 Free Fall
    • In free fall, German by Uwe Anton, Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1994. ISBN 3-404-13529-6
  • 1995 Voodoo River
  • 1996 Sunset Express
  • 1997 Indigo Slam
  • 1999 LA Requiem
  • 2003 The Last Detective
  • 2005 The Forgotten Man
  • 2007 The Watchman
  • 2008 Chasing Darkness
  • 2010 The First Rule
  • 2011 The Sentry
  • 2012 Taken
  • 2015 The Promise
  • 2017 The Wanted

Others

  • 2000 Demolition Angel
    • Feuerengel, German by Esther Breger and Peter Hiess, Goldmann, Munich 2002. ISBN 3-442-45092-6 )
  • 2001 hostage
    • Hostage - kidnapped, German by Andreas Heckmann, Goldmann, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-442-45427-1 )
  • 2006 The Two Minute Rule
  • 2013 Suspect

Awards

The Mystery Writers of America nominated him several times in various categories for the Edgar Allan Poe Award (1988, 1994 and 2001). There were also nominations for The Simon & Schuster - Mary Higgins Clark Award in 2000, by the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association for the T. Jefferson Parker Book Award in 2008 and many others.

Film adaptations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Also as an abridged edition under the title hostage taking at Reader's Digest, German by Rüdiger Hipp, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-89915-526-6
personal data
SURNAME Crais, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American detective writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Independence , Louisiana