What qualifies as a memory in an age when technology provides unprecedented options for the recording of information? Semantic memory—the ability to recall state capitals, say, or when William F.

Robert Crais says he was still deep in the writing of his previous thriller when the idea for the next one started bubbling up from that place in the brain where stories and characters live. He’d ...

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 ...

Robert Crais is 20 years into an acclaimed career built around a fictional private detective named Elvis Cole. Elvis is easy to like, friendly and wisecracking. His only bad qualities are a corny ...

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 ...

The L.A.-based best-selling crime novelist goes to the dogs, with great results, in his newest mystery. By Andy Lewis Robert Crais Suspect US Book Cover - P 2013 Acclaimed Los Angeles-based mystery ...

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 ...

Maggie is a bomb-sniffing German shepherd who has post-traumatic stress disorder Author%27s beloved Akita%2C Yoshi%2C died 16 years ago Researching human-canine relationship unleashed idea for novel ...

There are few authors I truly get excited about when a new novel is coming out. Stephen King and Joe R. Lansdale certainly do it for me. Robert McCammon definitely gets me excited with his Matthew ...

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 ...

We should all be so lucky to have friends like Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. Private detectives in modern-day Los Angeles, they’re the stars of best-selling author Robert Crais’ award-winning series of ...