01-01-2026, 10:54 AM
(04-13-2025, 05:54 AM)Greg Wrote: The Big Empty by Robert Crais
Back to my junk food. When I first started reading Crais back in the late 1980s, he was kind of a stop gap while I waited for the next Robert B. Parker Spencer novel. In the beginning, they were pretty much the same character, Elvis Cole and Spencer. But I've learned to like Cole for his own virtues and Crais has acquired his own voice.
In this case, Elvis Cole is hired by a muffin baker/influencer to find her father who went missing ten years ago. Of course, Cole finds the clues everyone else missed. Of course, Cole gets into trouble. But the book is well written and the characters are engaging. And I get to drive around Los Angeles with Cole and reminisce.
It is funny that Cole, and his Vietnam era army buddy Joe Pike are still in their late thirties as they traverse 2024.
Umm.
It’s 2026 now.
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