For Robert Crais, inspiration comes from anywhere, at any time – say, for instance, a scruffy old cat, hanging out in Crais’ imagination with the world’s greatest detective. “The very first scene that ...

Readers expecting an annual installment of a beloved mystery series may feel a void when those characters are missing for a couple of years, like Robert Crais’ Elvis Cole novels, the last of which was ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In Robert Crais’ Elvis Cole novels, there always comes a moment when Cole’s partner in his private-investigation biz, Joe Pike, appears. It’s when a ...

In his eighth book about wise-cracking Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole, Crais has expanded his narrative reach and broadened his characters' horizons to ...

Robert Crais still was in the middle of his previous book, “Chasing Darkness,” when a vision so powerful and clear arrived that the author of the Elvis Cole crime thriller series knew it had to be his ...

From murder in the Venice canals to human trafficking in the desert, Los Angeles serves as the perfect setting for Robert Crais' noir novels,... Robert Crais: L.A. Is 'Natural Canvas' For Nightmare It ...

For “The Big Empty,” the 20th book in Robert Crais‘ Elvis Cole and Joe Pike series, Crais returned to an idea he’d been circling off and on for years. “For a long time now, I’ve had this notion I ...

The Watchman, Â by Robert Crais. Simon and Schuster, 292 pp. Just as Sherlock Holmes had Dr. Watson, Travis McGee had Meyer, Nero Wolfe had Archie Goodwin, and Spenser has Hawk, author Robert Crais’ ...

It’s pitch dark in the hills above Brentwood as Robert Crais ducks beneath a low-hanging branch and onto the West Mandeville Canyon Trail early one Sunday in October. Crais, the best-selling author of ...