Jack McEvoy · Book 2
The Scarecrow
- Published
- 26 May 2009
- Pages
- 632
- ISBN-13
- 9780316043670
- Type
- novel
About this book
Thirteen years later, at 632 pages the longest book in the series, The Scarecrow (2009) finds a newly laid-off McEvoy chasing a serial killer exploiting data-center technology, in a story Connelly wrote as commentary on the decline of print journalism.
Its place in Jack McEvoy
The Scarecrow is book 2 in the Jack McEvoy series. It follows The Poet. It is followed by Fair Warning. 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 9780316043670
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781478948292