She had chosen the job and the job had abandoned her. The Twilight Zone This is one of the very best entries in a long-running and still first-rate series' Booklist on A Dangerous Man (starred review) 'Cleverly plotted, stylishly written' Washington Post So it's kinda fascinating, and at the same time it's wonderful, because I had finished the book; my time with Carol Starkey and Beth Marzik and Jack Pell and all those people was over. I certainly can see that happening a lot more than a television series or a film. And now they're doing a spectacular job with Demolition Angel. In the Elvis Cole books I'm not trying to show that everything is falling apart, that everyone is troubled and life is shit. 1953. Crais was born on the 20th of June, in the year of 1953, in Independence, Louisiana. , 1979; adult film He thinks of himself as inept, that is until his new partner comes by. to find her Crais wrote the novel in part because he wanted to challenge I understand. death of his own father, Crais created Elvis Cole, who was based on In 2005's And that perhaps someone you didn't want to see die, dies. oil refineries. ; Macavity Award for best paperback original novel, Mystery Readers Those are, I think, the masters who really lit my fire when I was young, at least when it comes to the private eye genre. For his works in the detective genre, Crais has been the recipient of many awards. The Little Sister Racing the Light - CW MARS - OverDrive What I've truly enjoyed about my books is that when you read one, everything that you like in that book is mine. She's a woman who had given everything to the job. It was always someone else's characters, always a collaborative effort. . I wanted to know how a homicide scene worked, what the homicide detectives controlled, how robbery/homicide interfaces with divisional homicide, and all the different players on a homicide scene, be it the investigator from the medical examiner's office or the criminalist from SID [the Scientific Investigation Division], etcetera, etcetera -- all these things. . personal pain after her partner died and she was injured in a bomb Los Mystery Convention, for I don't approach these things with the notion that I'm going to set my shit here in Los Angeles. Yes, he's fully realized already. Hes used to getting things that he wants, with his next desire being that Elvis Cole and Joe Pike to locate his wife and the baby that hed given up on just as he was making his way to Hollywood. At the end of these ten years, hes let go, only to find out that his former spouse has died and that his twenty-odd-year-old son, an LAPD officer, was killed on the job just recently. He was born in Louisiana, but he was put up for adoption so that his foster family raised him as a sole child.