The best-selling novelist of the Elvis Cole and Joe Pike crime novels talks about his latest, ‘Racing The Light.’
, who returned Nov. 1 in “Racing The Light,” the 19th book in the series, inhabit a Los Angeles that feels real to the reader even when Crais blurs locations to make a story work.
“Invariably, I’m thinking about the characters or the books, the scenes that I’m writing,” he says. “But also Los Angeles, because it’s just right there. There it is.”When Crais moved to Los Angeles in 1976, he was a runner until chronic Achilles tendonitis ended that. He took up hiking the canyons and trails of the Santa Monica Mountains 25 years ago and hasn’t stopped.
“Elvis, of course, lives in Laurel Canyon,” Crais says. “In the very first book, he’s living near the top of Laurel Canyon. A lot of people think he lives on Woodrow Wilson Drive. He does not. He lives on a small street off Woodrow Wilson Drive.Yet sometimes the fact and fiction of the city merge into one.Crais used his years of hiking Kenter Canyon to help Elvis give the slip to his police tail.
“That’s the MountainGate subdivision,” he says. “Joe Pike delivers a car for him to use there because Elvis has called him and said, ‘Hey, man, this is what’s gonna happen.’ “What dawned on me was that in these chaotic, crazy times, when nothing was as it seemed, the value of someone who wanted to reveal the truth, uncover the truth, is important to me personally,” Crais says. “And that became Josh Schumacher.
“It’s what feels right for the characters,” he says. “Josh being young, I’m sure he fancies himself as a hipper guy than the world would describe him as. So I figured it would be appropriate that he’s going to live in an apartment over by the Silver Lake-Los Feliz border.
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