The Poet - Michael Connelly

The Poet is the 5th novel from crime author Michael Connelly and the first as a stand alone novel, and not featuring Connelly's character Harry Bosch. This novel is written in the first person in contrast to his other novels, written in the third person. The Plot Jack McEvoy is a crime reporter. Following the death of his brother, he investigates a string of police suicides, seeing that there is something afoot. McEvoy begins to unravel a serial killer at work, and the FBI get wind of it. Agents Robert Backus and Rachel Walling scent the serial killer whom they dub the Poet, and thus a chase ensues, with the FBI forced to work with Jack as opposed ...  Read the complete review

Michael Connelly attended the University of Florida and majored in journalism with a minor in creative writing. He was a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, which is one of the largest papers in the country. The Poet was published in 1996. Michael Connelly has published 14 novels. His first novel The Black Echo (1992) featured the LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. He was to feature as an ongoing character through out his novels. There are novels in which Bosch doesn’t appear. The first being The Poet. Blood Work, Void Moon and Chasing The Dime are the other three. I read this book many years ago but I misplaced the book somewhere. It was the ...  Read the complete review