I chose to make [Elvis Cole] a private investigator because the private investigator is outside of the system. He has none of the power of even a simple patrol officer. And Elvis Cole being badgeless, without having the power of the system, I think he's more representative of us, of me and you. He's an ordinary guy.
Take a city-dwelling couple and plop them down in the
middle of rural America and you get a bestselling book by journalist Jeanne Marie Laskas. It's not a
work of fiction -- this is her story, and this book is a continuation of the story begun in her first
book "Fifty Acres And a Poodle."
I chose to make [Elvis Cole] a private investigator because the private investigator is outside of the system. He has none of the power of even a simple patrol officer. And Elvis Cole being badgeless, without having the power of the system, I think he's more representative of us, of me and you. He's an ordinary guy. 
