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 ...

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 ...