Title: The scarecrow
Description: Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.
Subjects: Los Angeles(Calif.)-Fiction, Journalists, Serial murder investigation-Fiction, Fiction, Journalists-Fiction, Serial murder investigation, Computer industry-Fiction, Computer industry, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2009-06-14, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Journalists, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Serial murders, fiction, Computer industry, fiction
Places: Los Angeles (Calif.)