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List Price: $7.99
Our Price: $14.95
Availability: N/A
Publisher: Paperback Nova Audio Books
Written By: Michael Connelly
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Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781567401509
Format: Abridged
ISBN: 1567401503
Label: Paperback Nova Audio Books
Manufacturer: Paperback Nova Audio Books
Number Of Items: 2
Publication Date: 1997-11-01
Publisher: Paperback Nova Audio Books
Release Date: 1997-11-01
Studio: Paperback Nova Audio Books
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With his four Harry Bosch novels, Michael Connelly joined "the top rank of a new generation of crime writers" (Los Angeles Times). Connelly returns with his most searing thriller yet - a major departure that recalls the best work of Thomas Harris (Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs) and James Patterson (Along Came a Spider).
Our hero is Jack McEvoy, a Rocky Mountain News crime-beat reporter. As the novel opens, Jack's twin brother, a Denver homicide detective, has just killed himself. Or so it seems. But when Jack begins to investigate the phenomenon of police suicides, a disturbing pattern emerges, and soon suspects that a serial murderer is at work - a devious cop killer who's left a coast-to-coast trail of "suicide notes" drawn from the poems of Edgar Allan Poe. It's the story of a lifetime - except that "the Poet" already seems to know that Jack is trailing him...
Here is definitive proof that Michael Connelly is among the best suspense novelists working today.
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Reader Reviews for The Poet:
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Summary: Heart wrenching!
Comment: This book has grabbed my interest right from before I purchased it. Someone I knew suggested it. I have only recently started reading it and it has started out pulling my heart strings so to speak. When a book starts out interesting right from the beginning few pages, it is going to be a good one. I would suggest this Author to anyone.
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Summary: Good stuff
Comment: All I have to say is wow! Having started with The Overlook, then Echo Park, both of which I liked so I backtrack and started on this one. This is the best of the three and I'm looking forward to reading more of Connelly's books.
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Summary: Connelly's best yet
Comment: After reading Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch books I had him filed neatly in my head under "detective,procedural-gritty".This book changed my opinion of him completely.This was a startlingly original voice and character in Jack Mcevoy.I believe Connelly transcended the genre with this one,much in the same way Harris did with Silence of The Lambs.This is one of those rare books where I have no reservations about recommending it to someone.In fact, I have probably bought this book eight to ten times to give to friends and haven't heard any negative comments .
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Summary: A good book but
Comment: It would have been that much better if it ended on page 400 instead of page 500 as the author felt compelled to add these extra twist(s) whose contrivances only detracted from an excellent, exciting procedural mystery.
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Summary: Jack McEvoy will grow on you just like Harry Bosch did
Comment: I recently started reading Michael Connelly's books in chronological order. The Poet is his 5th book and I was disappointed at first that this was not a Harry Bosch novel. Initially, I didn't really like the main character, Jack McEvoy, a newspaper reporter from the Rocky Mountain News. But, Jack grew on me just like Harry had in the frist four books.
The Poet starts out with the unfortunate loss of Jack's twin brother, Sean, who was a homicide detective. It appears to be a suicide but Jack discovers a few things that don't add up and starts to believe it was in fact a murder. His agruments are so convincing that the FBI gets involved on the hunt for a serial killer focused on homicide detectives. The twists and turns in this book just don't quit...and when you think you have it figured out...think again!
It was kind of neat that some of the people (ex. writer at the LA Times) and places (ex. Mark Twain hotel) overlap with the Bosch books. There were some loose ends regarding who killed who which I would have liked tied up. And, the obligatory romance angle to this books was a little corny...expecially the girl that got away because of a glance over the shoulder on the bleachers one day in high school. Yet, if there are more Jack McEvoy stories I wouldn't be surprised if that fire isn't rekindled.
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