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
characters: Ray St. Louis, Rachel Walling, Riley McEvoy, Robert Backus, Jack McEvoy, Gordon Thorson, Michael Warren, William Gladden, Harold Wexler
genres: Mystery, Murder Mystery, Suspense, Novels, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 98266
places: Chicago, Illinois, Denver, Colorado, Los Angeles, California, Phoenix, Arizona
series: Harry Bosch Universe, Jack McEvoy
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