Suspect, Crais - B-

                                         Robert Crais is a great mystery/police procedural writer and a fabulous storyteller.  His novels, which often involve a private detective named Elvis Cole, paint a vivid picture of the criminal world of Los Angeles that is frightening.   This book is a bit off his beaten path and involves a cop who was badly shot up teaming with a German shepherd that was equally battered in Afghanistan.  They become a "pack" and solve the mystery behind the attack on the policeman a year earlier.