Jack McEvoy · Book 1
The Poet
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN-13
- 9780316153980
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Poet, one of Michael Connelly's earliest and most acclaimed novels, opens the series in 1996 with journalist Jack McEvoy investigating his detective brother's apparent suicide and uncovering a serial killer who quotes Edgar Allan Poe -- the book that introduces FBI profiler Rachel Walling.
Its place in Jack McEvoy
The Poet is book 1 in the Jack McEvoy series. It is followed by The Scarecrow. See the full Jack McEvoy reading order.
Jack McEvoy is a crime journalist rather than a cop, which gives Michael Connelly's smallest series its distinct flavor: the same forensic obsessiveness as the Bosch novels, filtered through a reporter's need to build an airtight story rather than make an arrest. The Poet (1996) — one of Connelly's earliest and most acclaimed novels — has McEvoy investigating his police-detective brother's apparent suicide, uncovering a serial killer who quotes Edgar Allan Poe and targets homicide detectives, and introduces FBI…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316153980
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9789570830316
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780752809267