num_pages: 15
description: With his four Harry Bosch novels, Michael Connelly joined "the top rank of a new generation of crime writers" (Los Angeles Times). Now Connelly returns with his most searing thriller yet—a major new 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 novelist working today.
language: English
title: The Poet
titlecomplete: The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #5)
characters: Rachel Walling, William Gladden, Ray St. Louis, Riley McEvoy, Robert Backus, Gordon Thorson, Jack McEvoy, Harold Wexler, Michael Warren
genres: Audiobook, Thriller, Detective, Novels, Crime, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 98253
places: Chicago, Illinois, Denver, Colorado, Los Angeles, California, Phoenix, Arizona
series: Jack McEvoy, Harry Bosch Universe
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Hammett Prize, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Dilys Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Nero Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Marlowe
category: Best Crime Novel (International)
publisher: Brilliance Audio