Crossover Covers: The Watchman/The Two Minute Rule

On the run from a hit squad, Joe Pike and the woman he’s protecting abandon his red Jeep Cherokee in a grocery store parking lot. It is stolen by ex-con Max Holman. It is mentioned Holman used to steal cars for two Hispanic gangsters named the Chihuahua Brothers. The Watchman is the first Joe Pike novel. Joe Pike is the partner of Crais’ P.I. Elvis Cole. Pike appears in all the Elvis Cole books and Cole in all the Joe Pike books. The Two Minute Rule is a standalone novel featuring former bank robber Max Holman. The Jeep Cherokee links the two books. The Chihuahua brothers are mentioned in Crais’ Elvis Cole novel L.A. Requiem.

Crossover Cover: Suspect

L.A. cop Scott James joins the Metro K-9 Unit and is paired with a former bomb-sniffing dog named Maggie, who like himself suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Together, they investigate the death of Scott’s partner. John Chen appears. Chen also appears in Crais’ Elvis Cole novels, as well as the Joe Pike series and the non-series novel Demolition Angel. Scott and Maggie later teamed up with Cole and Pike in The Promise.

Crossover Cover: The Last Detective

Elvis Cole runs into Harry Bosch. It is mentioned Bosch lives in the same area as Cole. Carol Starkey appears. Harry Bosch is not identified by name, but is described in such a way as to leave little doubt it is him. Elvis would also make a cameo in the Harry Bosch novel Lost Light. Bosch is also mentioned in the novel Cons, Scams & Grifts by Joe Gores, one of the Dan Kearny and Associates novels. Carol Starkey is from Crais’ novel Demolition Angel. With this novel, she becomes a recurring character in the series.

Crossover Cover: Lost Light

Harry Bosch sees Elvis Cole driving his yellow 1966 Corvette and salutes the P.I. Robert Crais’ detective Elvis Cole is not referred to by name, but his description is unmistakable. Prior to this book, Harry Bosch had an unnamed cameo in the Elvis Cole novel The Last Detective. Since Bosch is in the CU through Joe Gores' DKA novel Cons, Scams & Grifts, so is Cole.

Crossover Cover: Cons, Scams & Grifts

Joe Gores' DKA novels are in the CU through a story where Dan Kearney met the ghost of the Continental Op. In this DKA book, a couple of cops receive help on a case from an L.A. Homicide detective named Harry Bosch. Bosch is featured in a series of novels by Michael Connelly. All of Connelly's novels take place in the same universe. Bosch has a cameo in Robert Crais' Elvis Cole novel The Last Detective, while Cole cameos in the Bosch novel Lost Light. Like Connelly, Crais sets most of his novels in the same universe. Bosch also cameos in Paula L. Woods' Charlotte Justice novel Strange Bedfellows. Finally, in the story "Red Eye" in the all-crossover anthology FaceOff, Bosch meets Dennis Lehane's Boston P.I. Patrick Kenzie.