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 The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly
 The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly ... Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )Newest Review: ... in and stay till you died. With the constant changes of ownership and management, the layoffs, and the ever-dwindling staff ... more ... and budget, the place was now becoming more of a pine box."
Jack swallows his pride and accepts management's offer to stave off his departure by two weeks if he'll train his own replacement. This replacement turns out to be a glamorous young blonde fresh out of journalism school. Jack and his understudy are initially working on a profile of a teenage killer and his victim, but realization soon dawns, the kid, rotten as he may be, didn't commit the murder. Instead, a serial killer is loose one with a predilect...more |
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The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly: A Killer Lurks on the Internet (574 words)
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If you are a Michael Connelly fan you probably have read "The Poet" so you will recognize the main character, Jack McEvoy; now Jack returns in "The Scarecrow," and the intervening years have not been kind. Jack got a book deal out of his game of wits with the serial killer known as the Poet, earned some credo and landed a star reporter's job at the L.A. Times, but now, in his middle age, Jack's life is on a downward spiral. At the beginning of this novel, the L.A. Times, now forced to downsize has just given Jack the chop from the paper. According to Jack, reporters used to call the L.A. Times "The Velvet Coffin" because it was "a place ... Read the complete review
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