by Michael Connelly
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Jack McEvoy is a Denver crime reporter with the stickiest assignment of his career.His twin brother, homicide detective Sean McEvoy, was found dead in his car from a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head--an Edgar Allen Poe quote smeared on the windshield.Jack is going to write the story.The problem is that Jack doesn't believe that his brother killed himself, and the more information he uncovers, the more it looks like Sean's death was the work of a serial killer. Jack's research turns up similar cases in cities across the country, and within days, he's sucked into an intense FBI investigation of an Internet pedophile who may also be a cop killer nicknamed the Poet. It's only a matter of time before the Poet kills again, and as Jack and the FBI team struggle to stay ahead of him, the killer moves in, dangerously close.In a break from his Harry Bosch novels--including The Concrete Blonde and The Last Coyote--Edgar-winning novelist Michael Connelly creates a new hero who is a lot greener but no less believable. The Poet will keep readers holding their breath untilthe very end: the characters are multilayered, the plot compelling, and the denouement a true surprise. Connelly fans will not be disappointed. --Mara Friedman
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Jack McEvoy is a Denver crime reporter with the stickiest assignment of his career. His twin brother, homicide detective Sean McEvoy, was found dead in his car from a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head--an Edgar Allen Poe quote smeared on the windshield. Jack is going to write the story. The problem is that Jack doesn't believe that his brother killed himself, and the more information he uncovers, the more it looks like Sean's death was the work of a serial killer. Jack's research turns up similar cases in cities across the country, and within days, he's sucked into an intense FBI investigation of an Internet pedophile who may also be a cop killer nicknamed the Poet. It's only a matter of time before the Poet kills again, and as Jack and the FBI team struggle to stay ahead of him, the killer moves in, dangerously close. In a break from his Harry Bosch novels--including The Concrete Blonde and The Last Coyote--Edgar-winning novelist Michael Connelly creates a new hero who is a lot greener but no less believable. The Poet will keep readers holding their breath until the very end: the characters are multilayered, the plot compelling, and the denouement a true surprise. Connelly fans will not be disappointed. --Mara Friedman
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More Twists Than a Room Full of Snakes, 2008-08-20
I've read a number of Connelly books recently and this has been the most mindbending. I was really not prepared for the end and it took me some moments to wrap my brain around it. As in life, the answers still leave you with questions. I like that. It's also interesting to see Connelly writing in first person and in a much more narrative style than some of his more recent Bosch work - which is clean, lean, mean and finely edited by comparison. In my humble opinion, you don't have to read Connelly's books in order. Each can certainly stand on its own and you can recognize the characters emerging and developing over his years of outwitting us in print.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Another chillingly enjoyable read by Connelly, 2008-06-16
I absolutely loved this fast paced thriller and have read the rest of the series. It is so good that it was hard to put down. Everyone I passed it down to loved it too.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Adrenaline-soaked thrill-ride, 2008-06-05
Jack McEvoy is a reporter who works the crime beat. His twin brother, Sean, is a homicide cop. When Sean is found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gun-shot wound, with an Edgar Allen Poe quote written on the window where it was fogged up, Jack cannot accept that it was, indeed, suicide. He does his research and discovers an unsettling string of homicide detective "suicides" - each had an unsolved case that was consuming them, and each left as a "note" a line from an Edgar Allen Poe case. Of course, once the FBI became involved (since these killings occurred across several states), they wanted to shut him out - which he would not accept. He wanted the exclusive story and he wanted to know why his brother was dead.
An intense story with an intensely creepy antagonist, the Poet is an interesting break from the Harry Bosch series. It is MOST DEFINITELY worth your time to read. So, drop whatever you're doing, go buy the book and get reading!!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Ending wrecked it..., 2008-06-05
I thought this book was pretty interesting until the ending. It was so completely over-the-top, contrived, far-fetched, whatever else you want to call it. It tried way too hard and failed big time. It's like he was trying to picture it as a movie and was trying to make a spectacular twist on the twist on the twist...and it was just an eye-rolling inducing obnoxious ending.
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 Just answer this: WHY?, 2008-06-01
Like other Connelly novels, the mystery is good and keeps you guessing. No Bosch in this one -- instead a Denver newspaper reporter whose twin brother turns up dead. There's a point when the reporter, Jack McEvoy, notes that the most interesting part of a news report is answering the "why" question. Well, once the twists and turns are over, you'll feel like the author failed to give us enough of the "why." Who, what, when, where, how ... all answered. But "why" -- just not enough of an answer. Very frustrating.
Another important issue is that if you don't read the novels in chronological order, some of the twists may conflict with what you know from future stories.
Finally, from the negative angle, Connelly suffers from a common malady: repetition of ideas and approaches already used up in others of his books. It gets a bit tiresome.
All the above said -- as a stand-alone novel it's quite entertaining. Likeable complicated characters. A good story. And a to-the-point style that is decent in building tension at times -- and lacks the super-heavy over-descriptive approach that some other well-respected writers, like Rendell and Crais, may use.
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