Crais has helped keep the classic tradition of the hardboiled Los Angeles private detective alive with this fine series, and his new novel may well be his finest yet.

Then Cole is hired by young online influencer Traci Beller to reinvestigate the unsolved disappearance of her father 10 years earlier when she was 13. He’s not optimistic there’s much new to find ...

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Instead, she turns to Elvis Cole, the self-declared world’s greatest detective. So begins “The Big Empty,” Robert Crais’ 20th ...

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 ...

So begins “The Big Empty,” Robert Crais’ 20th novel featuring Cole and his partner, Joe Pike. After warning Traci that his chances of find something the police and Byers overlooked is ...