The Poet (25th Anniversary Edition)
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4.4 • 271 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A cunning, poet-quoting serial killer of unprecedented savagery executes one homicide cop after another.
Jack McEvoy specializes in death. As a crime reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, he has seen every kind of murder. But his professional bravado doesn't lessen the brutal shock of learning that his only brother is dead, a suicide.
Jack's brother was a homicide detective, and he had been depressed about a recent murder case, a hideously grisly one, that he'd been unable to solve.
McEvoy decides that the best way to exorcise his grief is by writing a feature on police suicides. But when he begins his research, he quickly arrives at a stunning revelation. Following his leads, protecting his sources, muscling his way inside a federal investigation, Jack grabs hold of what is clearly the story of a lifetime. He also knows that in taking on the story, he's making himself the most visible target for a murderer who has eluded the greatest investigators alive.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
There’s nobody better qualified to investigate the deadly crimes that make splashy headlines than the guy who writes about them. Jack McEvoy, a crime reporter, stars in this gripping series from crime master Michael Connelly, author of the Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller books. In book one, we learn that Jack’s twin brother, Sean, a Denver homicide detective, has just committed suicide, shaking the journalist to his core. The explanation for Sean’s death doesn’t add up, leading Jack to launch his own investigation—one that could cost him his job, or even his life. This emotionally intense and suspenseful thriller features a wonderfully suspicious cast, including crooked FBI agents, a horrific network of pedophiles and possibly even a serial killer. Jack may have what it takes to survive the plot’s twisted maze, but we have a feeling that the echoes of this first investigation will haunt him for many books to come.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In a departure from his crime novels featuring LAPD's Harry Bosch, Connelly (The Last Coyote) sets Denver journalist Jack McEvoy on an intricate case where age-old evils come to flower within Internet technology. Jack's twin brother, Sean, a Denver homicide detective obsessed with the mutilation murder of a young woman, is discovered in his car, dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot, with a cryptic note written on the windshield. Jack's investigation uncovers a series of cop suicides across the country, all of which have in common both the cops' deep concerns over recent cases and their last messages, which have been taken, he quickly determines, from the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. As his information reopens cases in Chicago, Baltimore, Dallas, New Mexico and Florida, Jack joins up with a team from the FBI's Behavioral Science Section, which includes sharp, attractive agent Rachel Walling. Connections between the dead cops, the cases they were working on and the FBI profile of a pedophile whom readers know as William Gladden occur at breakneck speed, as Jack and the team race to stay ahead of the media. Edgar-winning Connelly keeps a surprise up his sleeve until the very end of this authoritatively orchestrated thriller, when Jack finds himself in California, caught at the center of an intricate web woven from advanced computer technology and more elemental drives.
Customer Reviews
The Poet
What a great read with some quite fascinating twists. A very good plot with interesting & developed characters. Certainly a different storyline to the excellent Bosch stories. Very worth the read
OK Read
It’s an ok read,but Connolly has done better. Lacked his intuitive skill of describing circumstances.
The Poet is a Very cleverly plotted crimi book.
Pleased to have read this Michael Connolly story starring the reporter as the sleuth!
I’m ready for another!