The Scarecrow (#2 Jack McEvoy)

Author(s): Michael Connelly

June July Highlights 2009

<p>Crime reporter Jack McEvoy, who made his career when he broke the story of The Poet, is on to another story that will bring him face to face with evil.</p>

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Derek Dryden from Better Read Than Dead writes:
This is Connelly's best book since The Poet. I guess I get a bit hot and cold on Michael Connelly too sometimes. His Lincoln Lawyer series was going along nicely until Connelly jumped the shark and made the lawyer the half brother of Harry Bosch! But no such trouble with The Scarecrow, it's just a ripplingly good read from start to finish. Connelly has reprised Jack McEvoy, the newspaperman who broke the Poet story, in his last days at the LA Times.

As Jack cleans out his desk in a world where on-line papers are making the paper ones redundant, he is determined to go out with one big story. He has a small story about a 16 year old drug dealer who has confessed to brutally raping and strangling one of his crack customers. The confession sounds suss to Jack and although he offers to look into the story to placate Alfonzo's grandmother, he's hoping for an expose that will leave his mark on the newspaper world. Jack is being replaced at the paper by Angela, a newbie straight out of Journo School, and she assists Jack to track down the finer points of the story. The little story about a crack dealer suddenly takes flight when Jack discovers a number of murders spread across the country with the same MO. As Jack flies off to Vegas to follow a lead his identity is stolen with his credits cards and license suddenly becoming invalid.

The Scarecrow is a long-term serial killer who has managed to operate for years below the radar, using his cyber skills to mask his identity and his crimes. He has planted a trap in a website and knowing that Jack and Angela have connected the killings, sets out to eliminate them. As Jack is waylaid in Nevada proving his identity, Angela is brutally killed and Jack framed for her murder. Jack is rescued by Rachel Walling, the FBI agent also introduced in The Poet, but The Scarecrow is buried so deep that he may elude the resources of the FBI. It will take the nose of the newspaperman to finally uncover the true identity of The Scarecrow, but the cost to Jack and those around him will be immense. Probably the best Michael Connelly I've read.

Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of the Harry Bosch series of novels as well as The Poet, Blood Work, Void Moon, Chasing the Dime, and The Lincoln Lawyer.

General Fields

  • : 9781741756784
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : 0.594
  • : March 2009
  • : 230mm X 152mm
  • : Australia
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Michael Connelly
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 813.54
  • : very good
  • : 416
  • : Crime & mystery